Resources

High quality, relevant research resources are available.

Membrane Biology (Cuppoletti)

• A facility for molecular biology of membrane proteins
  
  
• A facility for expression of recombinant proteins and recombinant peptides
  
  
• A facility for isolation of native and recombinant proteins and for biochemical characterization
  
  
• Cell culture facility for growth of eukaryotic cells
  
  
• 2 complete patch clamp facilities
  
  
• 2 Dual excitation-dual emission spectrofluorimeters
  
  
• Fluorimeters, spectrophotometers, ultracentrifuge, high speed microultracentrifuge, and microscope facilities
  
  
• Planar lipid bilayer setups and setups for electrophysiological studies on synthetic membranes

Computative and Theoretical Chemistry (Beck)

• Chemistry Department Molecular Modeling Facility with a permanent staff member trained in molecular modeling (Dr. Anping Liu)
  
  
• Parallel supercomputer for molecular simulations: 64 nodes, 1.2 GHz PCs
  
  
• Software: CHARMm, Gaussian98, visualization

Materials Science and Engineering (Boerio)

• Physical Electronics Model 5300 XPS spectrometer, includes integrated RF-powered plasma reactor
  
  
• Nicolet Magna 760 FTIR spectrometer, including Spectra-Tech Nic-Plan microscope, FT-Raman accessory, and integrated RF-powered plasma reactor
  
  
• J. A. Woollam variable angle spectroscopic ellipsometer (VASE)
  
  
• Bio-Rad FT Raman spectrometer based on the FTS-60 optical bench
  
  
• Plasmatech "dual-mode" (microwave, RF) plasma reactor with a large vacuum chamber (110 liters). Includes Oriel Instruments spectrograph with CCD detector and fiber optic probe and Kurt Lesker residual gas analysis system
  
  
• Hitachi scanning electron microscope with field emission source
  
  
• Philips CM-20 transmission electron microscope

Chemical Engineering (Lin)

• A facility for synthesis of ceramic and zeolite powders, beads and membranes
  
  
• A facility for chemical and physical vapor deposition modification of inorganic material surface
  
  
• Micromeritics ASAP 2000 adsorption porosimeter (with micropore capability) for characterization of microporous and mesoporous materials
  
  
• IR, UV, Vis spectrometers for material characterization
  
  
• TA Instrument SDT2960 DSC-TGA for studying material synthesis, reaction and phase transformation

Protein Structure (Rosevear)

• A facility for molecular biology of proteins
  
  
• A facility for expression and purification of recombinant proteins
  
  
• A facility for the biophysical characterization of wild type and mutant recombinant proteins
  
  
• A facility for preparation of isotopically labeled recombinant proteins (¹⁵N, ²H, ¹³C)
  
  
• A biological NMR facility consisting of 800 MHz, two 600 MHz, 500 MHz, and 400 MHz NMR spectrometers
  
  
• Dual CD and fluorescence spectrophotometer
  
  
• Dynamic light scattering instrumentation
  
  
• Several multiprocessor UNIX machines and necessary software for structure/dynamic calculations and structure visualization

Computational Chemistry and Physics (Coalson, University of Pittsburgh)

• The Center for Molecular and Materials Simulation, a 32-node IBM computer cluster

Center for Transport and Membranes
University of Cincinnati
PO Box 670576
Cincinnati, OH 45267-0576
http://www.ctm.uc.edu
Updated: October 14, 2002

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