Liu Lab Equipment List & Research Environment
Our laboratory is on the top floor of the BSE building in the main campus of UTSA, which is an $84 million 227,000 square feet, a five-story structure built 14 years ago. Our laboratory room numbers are BSE 0.110 (EPR), 4.204 (rRaman), 4.314 & 4.320, and our offices at 4.206 (postdocs') and 4.314 A&B (students'). Our lab has received the
Excellence in Laboratory Safety in the UTSA Gold Star Lab Safety Program and
Outstanding Commitment to Laboratory Safety Culture award.
Within the Liu laboratory at UTSA, our group members have access to the following major equipments:
Bruker E560 EPR/ENDOR spectrometer with a cryogen-free 4 K temperature system

Resonance Raman with Innova 302C Kr+ laser from Coherent Inc., PIXIS 1340x400BR Camera, and IsoPlane 320 Spectrograph from Teledyne Princeton Inc.

Michrom Gemini microcapillary LC interfaced with a Thermo-Finnigan LCQ ESI mass spectrometer with nanospray (LC-MS/MS)

Applied Photophysics SX20 Stopped-Flow UV-Vis spectrophotometer with a photomultiplier tube, and photodiode array as well as fluorescence detectors; Rapid-freeze quench (RFQ) apparatus (from Update Instruments), and Agilent 8453 UV-visible spectroscopy system

The synthetic corner: Teledyne Isco CombiFlash Rf+ chromatography, IKA rotovapor, chiller, and vacuum gas manifold

Coy glove and gloveless anaerobic chamber

Thermo Scientific Ultimate-3000SD UHPLC rapid separation system with an autosampler, a photodiode array detector, and a fluorescence detector

Microcal isothermal calorimeter (VP-ITC)

Gryphon crystallization robotic system from Art Robbins Instruments

Leica microscope, vibration-free crystallization refrigerators, and Linux workstations for remote data collection at the beamlines

Thermo Scientific ISQ EC Single Quadrupole Mass Spectrometer interfaced with HPLC

Tecan Infinite M200 Quad monochrometer microplate UV-vis and fluorescence spectrometer for the screening of therapeutic compounds

New Brunswick Scientific BioFlo 410 fermentor (already upgraded to model 415 in picture not updated)

Microfluidics LM20-30 cell disruptor

AKTA FPLC, AKTA purifier, and two AKTA start systems

Cary eclipse fluorescence spectrometer and homemade O2 level controller

Refrigerated shakers from Eppendorf Scientific (New Brunswick) and Thermo

Multiple -80 C freezers and refrigerators

Not pictured equipment:
Mammalian cell line culture including Nuaire CO2 water-jacketed incubator (it is currnetly lent to a colleague)
All relevant tools for protein crystallography, including Linux workstations and Molecular Dimensions vibration-free refrigerators
Clark-type oxygen electrode and hydrogen peroxdie oxygen electrode with upgraded gas blender
WPI free radical analyzer with hydrogen peroxide electrode
Update Instruments Model 715 rapid mixer and quenching system (RFQ)
Agilent/Hewlett-Packard 8453 diode array spectrophotometers (2X)
Perkin-Elmer Lambda 25 spectrophotometer
Turner design/Promega model TD-20/20 luminometer
Leitz HM-Lux microscope
Olympus CKX41SF2, inverted stage, phase contrast microscope with camera
Perkin Elmer thermal cycler (block type) and Eppendorf mastercycler gradient PCR systems
Class II Type A2 biosafety cabinet
Beckman high-speed centrifuges: Avanti J-26 XP & J-E
Anaerobic Shlenk line
Speed vac and lyophilizer
Alpha Mager HP
Research Environment
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