Smith Building Common Use Equipment

Common use equipment instructions are provided for investigators when they arrive at MDIBL. There is a usage fee for most of the equipment below; fees are indicated in MDIBL's Schedule of Fees.

Smith Basement

The bottom floor of the Homer Smith Building contains many pieces of common use equipment. This equipment includes:

• Analytical and Toploading balances
• Osmometers
• pH Meters
• Ice Maker
• Water Deionizer
• Evaporator Concentrator
• Flame Photometer
• Freezers
• Freeze Dryer
• Olympus Confocal, Leitz Fluovert FS, and Olympus IX70 Ratiometeric Fluorescence microscopes
• Research Ionalyzer
• Photomicroscopes
• Spectrofluorometer
• UV-Vis Spectrophotometer

Smith Tissue Culture Room (Core)

The Smith Buildign houses the Tissue Culture Core on the first floor. Equipment in the Tissue Culture Room includes:

• Laminar Flow Hoods
• Incubator
• Microscopes (Olympus CK-2, Zeiss IM35, Zeiss Axiovert 200)

Smith Top Floor (Molecular Biology Room)

The top floor of the Smith building also houses common use equipment, specifically the Molecular Biology Room. This includes:

• Cameras
• Gyrorotary Shaker
• Incubator
• Plate Reader
• Spectrophotometer
• PCR