Facilities and Equipment
The Vascular Research Laboratory facility has 2000 sq. ft. of laboratory facilities located within the Research Wing of the University of Tennessee Medical Center and houses all the necessary basic equipment needed for cellular and molecular biology experiments. Additionally, the research team has unlimited access to the Animal Science Center, an AALAC approved and accredited facility staffed by University of Tennessee veterinarians and animal caretakers, located on the basement level of the Research Wing. The animal facility has two operating rooms with anesthesia and monitoring equipment. A Zeiss OPMI-MD surgical microscope is property of the Vascular Research Laboratory and is housed in one of the operating rooms.
Equipment within the Vascular Research Laboratory facility
Dedicated tissue culture room:
- 2 CO2 incubators
- Sterile class II biosafety cabinet
- Dedicated centrifuges
- Cryo-preservation equipment
Dedicated histology room:
- Embedding, sectioning, mounting and staining equipment
- Slide examination and image capture equipment
General equipment:
- Humidified and non-humidified incubators
- Micro- and full centrifuges
- Waterbaths
- Walk-in cold room
- Sonic Dismembrator sonicator
- Labconco freeze-dry system
- 2 chemical fume hoods
- 1-D and 2-D electrophoresis equipment
- Konica Minolta SRX-101A film processor
- Eppendorf Mastercycler thermal cycler
Major equipment:
- Agilent 1100 High-Performance Liquid Chromatography system
- UltraPlus II MD Micro/Capillary column Liquid Chromatography system
- ThermoSpectronic BioMate5 spectrophotometer
- Applied Biosystems StepOne Real-Time PCR System
- Zeiss OPMI-MD surgical microscope
Shared equipment with the Shock and Trauma Laboratory:
- AlphaInnotech Imaging system
- Olympus BX51 fluorescent microscope - equipped with an Olympus QColor 3 camera and Image ProPlus software
- Beckman L7-65 Ultracentrifuge
- SpectraMax Plus UV-Vis microplate spectrophotometer
The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
Vascular Research Laboratory
Department of Surgery
1924 Alcoa Highway, Box U-11
Knoxville, TN 37920
Phone: 865-305-9774 or 865-305-9160
Fax: 865-305-6048