BIO Teaching and Research Labs

The Department of Biological Sciences has a total area of more than 1500 m² of research laboratories and 830 m² of teaching laboratories. The research laboratory consists of four Level 1 laboratories and one Level 2 laboratory. Among them, the largest research laboratory covers an area of 842 m², and the Level 2 laboratory covers an area of 135 m². Each research lab is a relatively independent laboratory, equipped with all kinds of basic instruments and equipment required by the experiment of molecular biology, cell biology, microbiology. The teaching laboratory has multimedia teaching equipment, spacious experimental space, clean and tidy experimental bench, a variety of basic equipment, which can meet the teaching requirements of various courses related experiment.

The laboratories have all kinds of imported equipment and instruments, including most of the advanced equipment required for molecular biology, cell biology, immunology and microbiology, and is managed by high-level technical staffs. Current facilities and major items of instrumentation include:

• Cell culture labs for bacterial, insect and mammalian cell propagation (Biosafety cabinet, CO₂ incubators, centrifuges, inverted microscopes, integra cellspin platform)
• Cold rooms and Refrigerator, freezer, Liquid nitrogen storage tank.
• Automated liquid handling workstation (Perkin-Elmer nano-litre Janus system)
• Sample preparation and storage (Centrifuges, Ultra-centrifuges, Cell disruptor, Bioruptor, Vacuum concentrators, Lyophilizer, -80^oC freezers, -150^oC freezer, Vacuum oven, Leica cryostat, CASY cell counter etc.)
• DNA analysis (qPCR, Gradient thermal cycler, nanodrop system etc.)
• Gene profiling (Nanopore sequencing system)
• Protein purification system (ÄKTA Go protein purification system)
• Protein structure research facility (Mosquito lipidic cubic phase screening crystallization robot, cooled crystallization incubators, Single Crystal X-Ray Diffractometer etc.)
• Imaging (Zeiss confocal microscope, Nikon confocal microscope with spectral detector; Nikon inverted fluorescence microscope and upright fluorescence microscope, Qimaging digital camera, LI-COR Odyssey infrared laser scanning imaging system, Bio-Rad ChemiDoc MP imaging system etc.)
• Drosophila genetics facilities
• Bioinformatics facilities
• BSL2 laboratory
• Electrophysiology (Oocyte two electrode voltage clamp recording and analysis system, Path Clamp system, Neurology DC recording system)
• Absorbance, luminescence and fluorescence assays (Pherastar system with nano-BRET module, Varioskan LUX microplate reader, FACSCelesta Flow cytometer).