Research Laboratories

Building: St. Joseph's, floor 3 - room C33

Capacity: 10 seats

Main research interests: Biochemistry of proteins.

Area: biology and biotechnology

Building: St. Joseph's, floor 3 - room C32

Capacity: 15 seats

Main research uses: Plant Physiology and Plant Genetics

Area: biology and biotechnology

Building: St. Joseph's, floor 2 - room C23

Capacity: 9 seats

Instrumentation present: FTIR + vacuum line, TGA, calorimeter, line for volumetric measurements

Area: chemistry

Instrumentation Laboratory I (room C23, 2nd floor, area C)

- Nicolet iS50 FT-IR spectrophotometer

- Shimadzu IRX20ross FT-IR spectrophotometer

- Setaram LabSys TGA EVO 1150°C analytical thermobalance

- Carbolite 1200 °C tubular furnace

- differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) – loan for use from Buzzi Unicem

- Dionex liquid ion chromatograph – loan for use from Buzzi Unicem

- Bruker NIR spectrophotometer - loan for use from Buzzi Unicem

- Oriel solar simulator

- Technical scale

- Hydraulic press.

Building: St. Joseph's, floor 2 - room C27

Capacity: 15 seats

Instrumentation present:

1. Probe Station and instrumentation for I-V and C-V measurements on semiconductors;
2. micro-Raman
3. apparatus for mechanical measurements

Main research uses: Micro-Raman diagnostics for semiconductor slices.

Area: physics

Instrumentation Laboratory II (Applied Physics, Green Chemistry) (room C27, 2nd floor, area C)

- Horiba dual laser Raman micro-spectrophotometer

- Zwick-Roell testing machine – mechanical tensile, compression and bending tests

- Agilent Cary5000 UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer

- Edinburgh Instruments spectrofluorimeter (already purchased, arriving in May at DSSTE).

Building: St. Joseph's, floor 3 - room C34

Capacity: 10 seats

Instrumentation available: MALDI-TOF; HPLC-ion trap; HPLC-DAD

Main research uses: Plant and animal genetic, physiological and microbiological analyses

Area: biology and biotechnology

Building: St. Joseph, external building

Capacity: 5 places

Instrumentation present: small plant growth chambers, dry stove

Main research uses: small-scale plant experiments

Area: biology and biotechnology

Building: St. Joseph, external building

Capacity: 5 places

Instrumentation present: small plant growth chambers

Main research uses: small-scale plant experiments

Area: biology and biotechnology

Building: St. Joseph's, floor 3 - room C36

Capacity: 10 places

Instrumentation present: sterile hoods, binoculars, refrigerators, thermostatic incubators

Main research uses: growth and manipulation of micro-organisms .

Area: biology and biotechnology

Building: St. Joseph's, floor 3 - room C37

Capacity: 10 seats

Main research uses: Microbiology, Molecular biology of microorganisms, environmental DNA extraction.

Area: biology and biotechnology

Building: St. Joseph's, floor 2 - room C22 - C25

Capacity: 11 and 13 places

Equipment present: 2 hoods, 2 stoves

Area: chemistry

Advanced Chemistry Preparation Laboratory I (room C25, 2nd floor, area C)

- 2 chemical fume hoods

- 1 “walk-in” chemical fume hood

- 2 acid/base storage cabinets

- 2 Type 90 safety storage cabinets

- Maina pure water production system

- sonification tank with thermostated bath

- stainless steel autoclaves for synthesis

- Kern analytical and technical balance

- high vacuum rotary pump

- diaphragm vacuum pumps

- pilot plant for scale-up synthesis

- heating magnetic stirrers.

Advanced Chemistry Preparation Laboratory II (room C22, 2nd floor, area C)

- 2 chemical fume hoods

- Shimadzu gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GC/MS)

- hydrogen generator

- rotary vane pump

- Sineo ultrasonic sonicator/irradiator

- PowTeq ball mill machine

- precision and technical analytical balance

- diaphragm vacuum pumps

- stainless steel autoclaves

Building: St. Joseph's, floor 3 - room C35

Capacity: 10 places

Instrumentation available: Sanger sequencer, PCR and RealTime PCR

Main research uses: Metabarcoding and genetics in zoology. Nucleic acid sequencing.

Area: biology and biotechnology