Laboratory

The Soft Tissue Research Laboratory is housed in the Multidisciplinary Research Building, which opened in 2006.  Equipment found in the laboratory includes:

• Cell culture facility (biosafety cabinets, incubators, inverted microscope with digital camera, centrifuge, waterbath)
• Perkin Elmer Victor3 fluorescent plate reader
• Spectrophotometer, thermal cycler
• Sorvall RC-6 Plus Superspeed Centrifuge
• Flexcell Tension System
• Hydrostatic pressure chambers for cell culture
• Custom TestResources planar biaxial material test device
• Video Extensometer (Correlated Solutions VicGage DIC software and a Point Grey Research 2 Megapixal digital video camera)

Shared equipment in the Multidisciplinary Research Building includes:

• Instron 8821 servo-hydraulic biaxial load frame with Instron model 8800 controller
• Nikon ME1600 optical microscope connected to an Optronics digital camera
• Leica cryostat
• Autoclave
• Nanopure water filtration system
• Ice machine
• -80 freezer

Other campus resources:

• Freimann Life Science Center
• AME Machine Shop
• Applied Biosystems 7500 Fast Real Time PCR System
• Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility