Resources

Equipment Schedules

Microscopes

  • Upright – Fluorescence/Polarization
  • Inverted – Fluorescence/Transmission
  • Inverted – Fluorescence/Temperature Control
  • Nanosight EMCCD
  • Nanosight NTA2.1
  • Zetasizer Nano
  • Spectrophotometer/Fluorimeter – Ocean Optics
  • Thermocycler

Equipment Manuals

  • Autoclave
  • Thermocycler

Cameras

  • Hamamatsu ORCA II
  • Cooke SENSICAM
  • QImaging RETIGA

Incubators

  • Hereaus
  • Forma
  • Incubator/Shaker – New Brunswick
  • UV-Ozone Cleaner
  • Fluorimeter – Nanodrop
  • Spectrophotometer – Shimadzu
  • -80C Freezer – New Brunswick C340

The following are a list of protocols used in the Fygenson Lab.  Links to those protocols originating from other labs have been provided.  Some of the protocols listed have not yet been made available on this website.  However, those interested should contact the lab for further information.

  • Cleaning Glass Slides and Coverslips (PDF)
  • Common Buffers  (courtesy of Salmon Lab, UNC) (URL)
  • Making Microtubules in Vesicles (PDF)
  • Negative Stain TEM of Microtubules (courtesy of Mitchison Lab, HMS) (URL)
  • Plasmid Purification (Qiagen) (PDF)
  • Preparation of Samples for Light Microscopy (PDF)
  • Preparation of PVP-coated Glass Slides and Coverslips (PDF) based on  “Cross-Linked Polymer Coatings for Capillary Electrophoresis and Application to Analysis of Basic Proteins, Acidic Proteins, and Inorganic Ions” by Kannan Srinivasan,*Chris Pohl, and, and Nebojsa Avdalovic, Analytical Chemistry 1997 69 (14), 2798-2805  link at pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/ac970041m
  • QuikChange Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit (Stratagene) (PDF)
  • Tubulin Basics (courtesy of Mitchison Lab, HMS) (URL)
  • Whole Cell Yeast PCR Kit (BIO 101) (PDF)
  • Yeast Tubulin-6xHis Prep (PDF)
  • Bacteriophage Culture and Storage
  • Basic Protein Concentration Measurement
  • E. Coli Culture and Storage
  • Preparation of Samples for AFM*
  • Stationary Laser Tweezer Setup
  • Yeast Culture and Storage

Group Meeting Schedule

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Online Chemicals Inventory

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