Instruments

Analytical Instruments

Shimadzu LC-MS/MS 8050

Liquid Chromatography Nexera-XR coupled with triple quadruple Mass Spectroscopy MS-8050

Shimadzu LC-20AD with PDA detector

Ultra Performance liquid chromatography 20-AD coupled with photo diode array detector

Shimadzu GC-2010 Plus

Gas Chromatography with dual injection ports and dual electron capture detector

Water Quality Analysis

Shimadzu TOC-VCSH with TNM-1

Total organic carbon (TOC-VCSH) coupled with total nitrogen analyzer (TNM-1)  enchanced with autosampler ASI-V

Thermo Scientific Dionex ICS-1600

Dionex ion chromatography with separate cation and anion analyzer

Shimadzu SALD-2300

Laser diffraction particle size analyzer

Horizon SmartPrep Automated solid phase extractor

Automated Solid Phase extraction apparatus for cyanotoxin cleanup and concentration

Fluorometers and Spectrophotometers

Shimadzu RF-6000

Spectrofluorometer for Excitation-Emission matrices

Shimadzu UV-1800

Spectrophotometer for measuring sample absorbance in UV/Visible wavelength range

Turner Designs Trilogy

Trilogy benchtop fluorometer equipped with Chlorophyll-A, Phycocyanin, and in-vivo chlorophyll detection modules

HACH DR3900

Benchtop spectrophotometer for UV absorbance measurement

Molecular Devices SpectraMax M2

Microplate UV spectrophotometer for 96-well plate absorbance measurements

HACH 2100Q

Nephlometer for sample turbidity measurement

Microscopy & Flow Cytometer

Olympus BX-51 with DP70 camera

Upright fluorescent microscope equipped with DP-70 image capture camera

Olympus IX51 with CCD camera

Inverted fluorescent microscope equipped with charge coupled device (CCD) image detector for lower noise and higher resolution imaging

BD Accuri C6 Plus

Flow cytometer

Molecular Biology 

(Full access at Dr. DaeWook Kang's lab)

Applied Biosystems QuantStudio3

Real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) system

Eppendorf epMotion 5073

Automated Liquid Handler for PCR and QPCR reaction

Applied Biosystems Veriti

Thermal cycler - Polymerase chain reaction system

Eppendorf 5333 MasterCycler

Thermal cycler - Polymerase chain reaction system

ThermoScientific Nanodrop 1000

Nanodrop for nucleic acid quantification