We really appreciate donations, but please do NOT drop off any equipment at CCL without prior approval! Unwanted donations can cost us a significant amount of money, effort, and/or space. If you have anything you think we may want, send a description to [email protected].

Equipment List

  • Two 6ft Biosafety cabinets
  • -80C freezer, -20C freezers, 4C refrigerators
  • Bioreactor system, including a computerized controller, 2L vessel, chiller, air compressor, O2 concentrator, and vacuum pump
  • Incubators
  • Shaking incubator
  • PCR Thermocyclers
  • Spectrophotometers with plate reader and cuvette holder
  • Spectramax 190 plate reader
  • Gel Electrophoresis (boxes, power supply, gels, and gel viewer)
  • Centrifuges, mini centrifuge
  • Small and large autoclaves
  • Vacuum chamber and pumps
  • Scales and analytical balance
  • Hot plates and water bath
  • 2 in 1 magnetic stirrer and hot plate
  • Magnetic stirrers and vortexers
  • Cooling and heating blocks
  • Pipettes and tips - single and multichannel
  • Electroporator and cuvettes
  • Compound and stereo microscopes
  • Nanodrop
  • FPLC
  • Plant growth racks
  • Hydroponic plant growth systems and TDS meter
  • Rotovap
  • Lyophilizer
  • Transfer blot
  • Orbital shakers and rockers
  • pH meter and probes
  • Liquid-handling robot
  • Solids and liquids distillers

Wish List

Although we have a pretty well equipped lab, there's always some more items we're looking for...
  • ​Microcentrifuges (i.e. Eppendorf)
  • Blue light transilluminator for gel viewing
  • *Small* Desktop Autoclave that can fit 500mL bottles
  • Eppendorf Thermomixer
  • Qubit fluorimeter
  • Buchi R-114 Rotary Evaporator condenser and glassware. Tubing clamps and chemistry glassware joint clips.
  • Automated cell counter (e.g. Countess)
  • Confocal microscope parts
  • Fluorescent microscope / other high-end microscopes
  • Cryogenic storage dewar (vacuum flask for liquid nitrogen)
  • AKTA protein purifier
  • LED plant growth lights (especially far-red light)
  • 250mL beakers
  • Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) microscope parts
  • Bioreactor impeller motors
  • 10L bioreactor
  • Dynamic Light Scattering / Laser Diffraction particle size analyzer (down to at least 50nm)
  • Handheld X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) scanner to test for lead contamination in soil
  • *Small* desktop electron microscope
  • *Small* Raman spec

​Got any gear you'd like to donate? Contact us at [email protected]
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