This laboratory mill mixes and homogenizes up to 2 x 20 ml powders and suspensions within a few seconds. It is also perfectly suitable for the disruption of biological cells as well as for DNA/RNA and protein extraction. It is used for dry, wet and cryogenic grinding of small sample amounts. Contact: Dr. Eswarayya Rami… Continue reading Tissue Homogenizer Make: Retsch GmbH Model No: MM400
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Trinocular Upright Research Microscope Make: Magnus Analytics Model: MX21iTR LED
Allows the user not only to take pictures, record videos of specimen being observed under the microscope and save the data for future references. It helps the user to present observation of the specimen in real-time to others. Contact: Prof. Ramesh Sonti
Double Distilled Water System
It purifies water by removing more than 99.9% of contaminants, including chemicals, heavy metals, microorganisms, and sediment, via double distillation process. It consists of a boiling chamber, a cooling system, and a separate storage tank. Contact: Prof. Ramesh Sonti.
Biosafety Levels-2 (BSL-2) Facility
The BSL2 plus facility is used to culture avirulent strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is equipped with a biosafety cabinet, centrifuge, incubator, and plate reader. Contact: Dr. Raju Mukherjee
Plant Tissue Culture and Plant growth room facility
This facility is mainly used for the regeneration of plants using tissue culture based methods. It has a biosafety cabinet, and tissue culture Rack with a digital photoperiod timer. Contact: Dr. Eswarayya Rami Reddy, Dr. Swarup Roy Choudhury, Dr. Annapurna Devi Allu.
Animal Cell Culture Facility
Animal cell culture is used for culturing, and sub-culturing of different types of animal cells. This facility has Bio Safety cabinets, CO2 Incubators, a cell counter Machine, a Centrifugation machine, and a bright field inverted microscope. Contact: Dr. Sajay Kumar, Dr. Vasudharani Devanathan, Dr. Sivakumar Vallabhapurapu
Microtome (cryostat)
For histopathological studies, this device freezes samples to low temperature (upto -35 ℃) to obtain tissue sections ranging from 1 to 100 μm thickness. This device bypass the need of embedding material prior to sectioning of samples. Contact person: Dr. Vasudharani Devanathan
Ultrapure Water Purification Systems
To generate ultra pure water (Type 1 water) of 18.2 MΩ.cm resistance to be used in molecular Biology applications such as PCR, sequencing and for mammalian cell culture. Type 2 water is also generated from the system used in buffer preparation. Contact: Dr. Suchi Goel
Multicolour Flow Cytometer
The BD FACS Celesta can rapidly and accurately quantify and analyze many kinds of cells, including animal cells, yeast cells, plant cells etc. Contact: Dr. Sivakumar Vallabhapurapu
Gel Imaging System Make:UVITEC, Cambridge Model: UVI Doc HD5
Gel Imaging or Gel Documentation system is used to capture digital images of electrophoresis agarose gels in order to obtain a visual record of the experimental results. Contact: Dr. Eswarayya Rami Reddy