Tulane University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Department of Biochemistry

The Shared Instrumentation Facility for Molecular Biology Research (SIF-MBR) at the Tulane Health Sciences Center is open once again to serve your research needs.  Like most other components of the University, we were affected in many ways.  We were closed from August 29th through March 10th and during that time we lost all of the reagents in our supply center, due to the power outage.  However, we are in the restocking process with products from Invitrogen and Promega, and all equipment is back in working order.  As you rebuild your labs and continue your research, we hope you will keep us in mind for your needs.

Our facility offers access to instrumentation and technical services for the conduct of a variety of investigations in the basic molecular biosciences. The facility is in the Biochemistry Department on the sixth floor of the Burthe-Cottam Building of the Med School of the Health Sciences Center. A listing of the equipment and services provided in the SIF-MBR is included in this web site.

For additional information or specific needs please contact Miriam Ruiz, Medical Tech (SIF Manager). If you wish to recommend additions to SIF equipment holdings and services, please send your suggestions in writing to J.D. Karam, Department of Biochemistry, SL-43.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

3/13/06 - SIF reopens
4/1/06 - Promega reagent supply center reopens
4/2006 - Invitrogen reagent suply center reopening with on-line ordering
 
 

Services Available

To view service descriptions, click on individual service. If you are already familiar with the procedures and would like to order immediately, click on the ORDER button or corporate LOGO located next to the appropriate service.  Please note that several of the descriptions are being updated and will be made available soon.
 
 

	Oligonucleotide Synthesis
	Peptide Synthesis
	Protein Sequencing
	DNA Sequencing
	Invitrogen/Life Technologies
	Promega Express

Equipment Available

The following pieces of equipment are available in our facility.  Additional pieces are being added on a regular basis.
 

Centrifugation (with roters)

Beckman Optima TLX

Beckman XL-90

Sorvall RC24

Sorvall RC3C

Liquid Chromatography

Pharmacia FPLC System

Pharmacia Smart System

Waters 600E HPLC System

Imaging and Detection

Pharmacia LKB-Ultrascan XL-Densitometer

Alpha Innotech AlphaImager upgraded with Dell Windows XP

Fuji Bio-Imaging Analysis System

Beckman DU600 UV-Visual Spectrometer

UVP GDS 7500 Gel Doc System

Computers

Macintosh w/software with Epson desktop scanner

Dell PC XP Pro

For information, please contact:

Miriam Ruiz, Medical Tech (SIF Manager)
Tulane University Health Sciences Center
Shared Instrumentation Facility
Department of Biochemistry SL43
1430 Tulane Avenue
New Orleans, LA 70112
(504) 988-7165
(504) 988-2739 (FAX)
email: biosif@tulane.edu

To report problems with this web page, contact Miriam at biosif@tulane.edu