Major Equipment
Contact the principal investigator or research director to learn more about using
major equipment at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences.
Biomedical Equipment and Software
Contact John Shabb at 701.777.4946 for the following:
- Agilent 1100 nanoflow HPLC – In combination with the LC TEMPO MALDI, provides capabilities for multi-dimensional LC/MS/MS
- Agilent 3100 Off-gel Fractionator – Used for in-solution fractionation of peptides and proteins by isoelectric focusing; useful for first dimension separation for multi-dimensional LC/MS/MS
- Applied Biosystems LC TEMPO MALDI – Integrated nanoflow HPLC/automated spotter designed to complement the ABI 4800 for separation and analysis of complex peptide mixtures
- Applied Biosystems/M.D. SCIEX 4800 MALDI TOF/TOF – Mass spectrometer is designed for high throughput protein/peptide identification and quantitation
- Bioinformatics Solutions PEAKS Studio 5.3 – Proteomics Analysis Software
- Matrix Science Mascot 2.3 – Protein database search software for peptide and protein identification
- Proteome Software Scaffold v.3.6.1 – Proteomics Analysis Software
- Shimadzu Preparative HPLC – Useful for large-scale fractionation of complex protein mixtures
- Shimadzu RID 10A Refractive Index Detector
Mass Spectrometry
Contact Mikhail Golovko at 701.777.2305 or visit the mass spectrometry website for more information on the following mass spectrometry equipment:
- API-3000 Mass Spectrometer
- Mass Spectrometer API-3000
- Mass Spectrometer Polaris Q
- Mass Spectrometer QStar
- Polaris Q Mass Spectrometer
- Protean Plus Dodeca Cell
- Proteome Lab Fractional System
- Q Star Mass Spectrometer
Imaging
Contact Bryon Grove at 701.777.2579 or Sarah Abrahamson at 701.777.3399, or visit the Imaging Core’s website, for more information on the following imaging equipment:
- Leica DMi8 Thunder Imager
- Nikon Eclipse 80i Upright Fluorescence Microscope
- Olympus FV1000 MPE Basic Multiphoton Microscope
- Olympus IX83 with TIRF Microscope
- Leica Stellaris Confocal Microscope
- Denton Desk II Sputter and Turbo-Sputter Coaters
- Hitachi 4700 Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope
- RCM MTX Ultramicrotomes
- Hitachi 7500 Transmission Electron Microscope
Scanners
Contact James Porter at 701.777.2296 for the following:
- Genepix Professional 4200A Scanner
- Molecular Devices Genepix Professional 4200A Scanner
Microscopes
Contact Jonathan Geiger at 701.777.2183 for the following:
- Head Focus Microwave
- Microscope Calcium Imager Live
- Olympus Fluorescence Microscope
- Olympus Inverted Scope
- Olympus Microscope