Facilities

Environmental engineering labs

The Ikuma lab is located at 124 Town Engineering Building, which is at the northwest corner of the Iowa State University central campus in Ames, IA. We have access to a variety of shared resources for physicochemical and biological analyses in the Environmental Engineering labs in Town Engineering Building. Our lab is fully equipped with equipment for microbiological experiments and molecular biology including, but not limited to:

• Biofilm reactors

• Fermentors

• Biological safety cabinet (class II type A2)

• Ultra-low freezer

• Quantitative PCR machine

• Qubit 3.0 fluorometer

• Monochromator-based microplate reader with nanodrop-like capabilities

• Epifluorescence microscope with Z-motor

• Shakers and incubators

Some pictures of the Ikuma lab:

ISU Office of Biotechnology

In addition to the Environmental Engineering labs, our research group regularly utilizes the ISU Office of Biotechnology and related facilities. Through these facilities, we have access to various state-of-the-art chemical, microscopy, flow cytometry, and DNA instrumentation as well as computational capabilities for omics data analysis.