Facilities

The Department of Pediatric maintains open access Core Equipment Facilities to support the research programs of Department faculty.

Locations 

Contact Information

Linda Kalikin, PhD Director, Pediatric Shared Resource Equipment Facility (734) 615-5119  [email protected]  

Access

  • Access to computer workstations associated with individual microscopes and to computers controlling individual instruments, is restricted. Please email the Resource Director, Linda Kalikin, to be added to the Facility's 'user list.'
  • The Charles Woodson Children's Clinical Research Laboratory requires that all users have undergone appropriate OSEH or equivalent training prior to gaining access to the lab (See detailed instructions in the Woodson Lab section).

Hours of Operation

The Charles Woodson Children's Clinical Research Lab is accessible 24/7. All other resources are available Mon-Fri 8am-6pm.

Scheduling

Equipment can be reserved on an hourly basis (see detailed instructions in each section).  

Summary of available equipment:

Charles Woodson Children's Clinical Research Lab Room F2456, University Hospital South

  • Short-term storage space for specimens at 4C, -20C, and -80C monitored by TempTrak software (24/7)
  • Table-top refrigerated centrifuge
  • Microfuges
  • Waterbath
  • Incubator (non-CO2)
  • Vortexers
  • Sets of Glison Pipetman (20, 200 and 1000ul)
  • Drummond Pipet Aids
  • Assigned storage space for PI’s lab supplies
  • Ice Machine

Microscope Resource MSRB I, Room 3530

  • Motorized Carl Zeiss Axio Imager M1 microscope

Large Equipment Core MSRB III, Room 8240 

  • FluorChem M MultiFluor Imager (Protein Simple)
  • Applied Biosyistems Step One Plus Real Time PCR
  • Chemidoc XRS Imaging System (Bio-Rad)
  • MyiQ Single-Color Real-Time PCR Detection System (Bio-Rad)
  • SpectraMax M2e Multi-Detection Microplate Reader (Molecular Devices)
  • SmartSpec 3000 Spectrophotometer (Bio-Rad)
  • Stratalinker UV Crosslinker (Stratagene)