Major Equipment

Contact the principal investigator or research director to learn more about using major equipment at the UND School of Medicine & Health Sciences.

Sample Equipment Document

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, Sarah Abrahamson at 701.777.3399 or visit the imaging website for more information on the following imaging equipment:

• Leica DMi8 Thunder Imager
• Nikon Eclipse 80i Upright Fluorescence Microscope
• Nikon TE300 Inverted Fluorescence Microscope
• Olympus FV1000 MPE Basic Multiphoton Microscope
• Olympus IX83 with TIRF Microscope
• Zeiss 510 LSM Meta 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