Facilities & Equipment

The Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism Research Focus Area is home to a range of labs, facilities, resources that enhance the learning, teaching and research experience for all our students and faculty. These include:

• Next-Seq 500 (Illumina)
• 2100 Electrophoresis Bioanalyzer (Agilent)
• GC-MS (Agilent)
• Olympus IX73 BF/FL (fluorescence) microscope
• 7500 Real-time PCR machine (ABI)
• BioLogic DuoFlow QuadTec 10 System (Bio-Rad)
• SpectraMax G4 (Molecular Devices)
• Gene Pulser X-Cell total system (Bio-Rad)
• QuantStudio 3D Digital PCR System (Invitrogen)

Behavioral Suite in the Comparative Medicine Unit (CMU)

• Columbus Instruments Comprehensive Lab Animal Monitoring System
• Echo MRI

Shared Equipment

Our research focus area shares additional equipment with the Heart and Blood Vessel Disease research focus area. This includes:

• Multiphoton fluorescent microscope (Olympus Exclusive MPE with MAITAI-EHP)
• Olympus confocal microscope with 4 lasers (Olympus FV1000 IX81 Spectral Confocal)
• C6 Flow Cytometer (BD Biosciences)
• X-ray generator (Gamma irradiator for small animals)
• In Vivo Imaging System (Perkin Elmer)
• Vevo 770 High-resolution Imaging System (VisualSonics, Inc. Toronto, Canada)