Facility
Vanderbilt Engineering and Science Building
The Duvall lab is housed in the new Vanderbilt Engineering and Science Building (ESB)! This collaborative research environment (including spaces shared with Dr. Todd Giorgio and Dr. Jonathan Brunger) houses a variety of equipment that enables cutting edge applications in synthesis, characterization, and biological testing of advanced therapeutic biomaterials. Also located within the ESB is the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), which houses a number of synthesis and characterization resources used by our lab.
Equipment
Chemistry & Characterization Equipment
- Fully equipped chemical/polymer synthesis suite
- Oligonucleotide Synthesizer
- DMF Gel Permeation Chromatography
- Differential Scanning Calorimeter
- Peptide Synthesizer
- Refractometer
- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
- Size Exclusion Chromatography (SEC)
Biology Equipment
- BSL 2 cell culture hoods (5)
- Bacterial culture room and biosafety cabinet
- Intravital Imaging System (IVIS) and small animal procedure room
- Nikon Confocal Microscope (4 laser, 4 channel, atmospheric control, intravital) in dedicated microscopy suite
- Nikon Macroscope (with brightfield and fluorescence) in dedicated microscopy suite
- Tecan Plate Reader (fully tunable excitation / emission, absorbance, fluorescence, temperature, shaking, kinetics, etc.)
- Automated plate washer
- Biorad Thermocycler
- Western blotting / PCR product gel electrophoresis
- UV Gel Imager
We also have access to all VU and VUMC Research Core Facilities, including
- Cell Imaging Shared Resource Core (CISR) – SEM, TEM, Super Resolution, Spinning Disc, et al.
- Small molecule NMR Facility
- Mass Spectrometry / LCMS Core
- VICB High Throughput Screening Core (96-well fluorescent automated microscope, fluorescence polarization plate readers)
- Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering
- Molecular Cell Biology Resource Core (on campus biology supply store: catalog; shared equipment including CFX96 RT PCR, Gel Doc, etc; Nucleic acid ordering)
- Division of Animal Care
- Flow Cytometry Core
- Islet Procurement and Analysis Core
- Translational Pathology Shared Resource and Digital Histology Shared Resource
- Vanderbilt Technologies for Advanced Genomics (VANTAGE)
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