Facilities

LABORATORY

The Department of Environmental Sciences in the Environmental and Natural Resources Sciences Building (ENR) on the Cook Campus of Rutgers University has 20,000 ft² of laboratory space equipped with state-of-art analytical instrumentation.

Dr. Fennell’s laboratories, Rooms 172, 269 and 369, total 1500 ft² and are available for chemical analysis, microbiology, and molecular biology applications. The laboratories are equipped with refrigerators, freezers, incubators, balances, stirplates, chemical fume hoods, a gassing station, a Coy anaerobic chamber, deionized water, compressed air, natural gas and vacuum.

The Department of Environmental Sciences runs a core molecular microbiology laboratory occupying rooms 165 and 167 of the ENR building (1200 ft²). It houses equipment for analysis of DNA, RNA and proteins, and is equipped with refrigerators, freezers, incubators, ultra-low temperature freezer, sonicator, ultracentrifuge, qPCR machine, thermocyclers, and equipment for running and visualizing agarose and acrylamide gels.

MAJOR EQUIPMENT

The Department of Environmental Sciences houses: Agilent 6890 Gas Chromatography System equipped with flame ionization and electron capture detection; Dionex 1000 Ion Chromatography System; Dionex Aquion Ion Chromatography System; Agilent 1260 High Performance Liquid Chromatography System; Beckman 168 High Performance Liquid Chromatography System; Thermo Fisher Scientific iCAP 7400 ICP-OES Analyzer; ABI QuantStudio 3 Quantitative PCR Instrument; and Beckman OPTIMA MAX-TL Ultracentrifuge. The core equipment also includes Qubit Fluorometer; BioRad GelDoc Imager; multiple New Brunswick Scientific shaker-incubators; multiple drying and ashing ovens; multiple microfuges; a two-person Coy anaerobic chamber; a laminar flow hood; two -80°C freezers; five -20°C freezers; and several large refrigerators.