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Name / Description Location Contacts Recharge Accessible to Non-Purdue Users
Amy Instrumentation Facility

The Jonathan Amy Facility for Chemical Instrumentation (JAFCI) is dedicated to the fusion of engineering expertise with the quest for scientific knowledge. Our team of scientists and engineers provide assistance in the design and construction of specialized instrumentation along with repair and modification of commercial systems. We have experience with projects ranging from specialized sample holders to data acquisition packages suspended from high-altitude weather balloons.? Our capabilities include mechanical design, electronics, software development, instrument troubleshooting and repair. We also work closely with the precision machine shop and the scientific glassblowing lab to create custom parts from metals, polymers, glass and other materials.

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BRWN Dr. Michael Everly
Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope

Inverted Zeiss LSM 710 confocal laser scanning microscope with and environmental chamber appropriate for live cell imaging. Advanced methods available include spectral unmixing, time lapse, multi-target imaging, FRET, FRAP, photoactivation, and ratiometric imaging of ion indicator dyes.

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Lilly Don Ready X
Lilly Animal Care Facility

Users are BME, SLHS, Vet School, Pharmacy, Endocyte, OnTarget, along with Biological Sciences.

LILY-LSA Sylvia Schlegel X X
Macromolecular Crystallography

Macromolecular crystallography laboratory; crystallization and X-ray Diffraction. A core facility of the Purdue Center for Cancer Research.

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HOCK Dr. Calvin Steussy Mr. Tim Schmidt X X
Precision Machining

Precision Machining in the Department of Chemistry is your one-stop-shop for the design and fabrication of mechanical parts in support of your research and teaching efforts.? We offer a wide range of services which include 3D modeling / drafting / printing in plastic and metal, conventional and CNC milling / turning, welding and soldering, surface grinding.? Parts can be fabricated from a wide range of materials including steel, aluminum, stainless steel, brass, copper, ceramics, and plastics. Vacuum chambers and high vacuum components are a specialty.

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WTHR Dr. Michael Everly X X
Purdue Cryo Electron Microscopy Facility

The PCEMF operates several high resolution transmission electron microscopes equipped for cryo-microscopy of biological assemblies.

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HOCK Valorie Bowman Wen Jiang X X
Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory (PRIME)

The Purdue Rare Isotope Measurement Laboratory (PRIME Lab) is a research facility that provides measurements for long-lived radionuclides: 10Be (half-life 1,390,000 years), 14C (5700 years), 26Al (705,000 years), 36Cl (301,000 years), 41Ca (105,000 years), and 129I (16.7 million years). The isotopic abundances measured range from one part in 10^15 (a thousand million million) to one part in 10^11. Applications include geoscience and extraterrestrial studies of cosmic-ray-produced radionuclides, environmental tracer studies of radionuclides (soils and hydrology), and biomedical radionuclides. PRIME Lab also offers physical and chemical sample preparation of geologic and biomedical samples for all radionuclides. PRIME Lab also operates an ICP-OES, which is available for the measurement of ~ ppm level chemical abundances.

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PHYS Marc Caffee X X
Purdue Stable Isotope Facility

The Purdue Stable Isotope Facility houses 4 isotope ratio mass spectrometers (IRMS), each accompanied by peripheral devices for conversion of various compounds into analyzable gases.? We also operate standalone instrumentation for both concentration and isotopic analysis.

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HAMP Janine Sparks X X
Research Instrumentation Center

The Research Instrumentation Center is a core facility in the Department of Chemistry that manages the shared departmental instrumentation.

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BRWN Dr. Pat Bishop X X
Ross Biological Reserve

67 acres of forest managed mainly as a natural area for ecological research with modest indoor facilities.

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Off-campus Jeffrey Lucas
Scientific Glass Blowing Lab

The Scientific Glass Blowing Lab in Chemistry is fully equipped to provide the services expected from a glass shop and more. In addition to consulting/designing and fabricating scientific apparatus such as reaction vessels and Schinke lines, the shop has capacities to cast 3D forms, evacuate/back fill glass vessels, and apply protective coatings to glassware. The shop also offers student instruction and artistic pieces for awards/gifts for special occasions. Additional capabilities include: on-site repair, surface grinding/polishing, optical windows, lenses, sealing/evacuation/backfilling of vessels, surface treatments such as silvering and plastic coating.

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WTHR Dr. Michael Everly X X
Statistical Consulting Service

Provides free of charge statistical consulting services; addresses questions with statistical software, the design of experiments,and data analysis.

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MATH Prof. Bruce A. Craig
Transgenic and Genome Editing Facility

The Transgenic and Genome Editing Facility (TGEF) offers a variety of services to the Purdue University Center for Cancer Research community, including (1) Generation of Transgenic, Knock-Out, Knock-In and gene-edited mice and rats by pronuclear injection of DNA and/or CRISPR/cas9, (2) Gene Targeting of ES Cells, (3) Blastocyst Injection of ES Cells for the Generation of Knock-Out Mice, (4) Strain Rederivation, (5) In Vitro Fertilization, (6) Embryo Cryopreservation, (7) Sperm Cryopreservation, (8) Mouse Embryonic Fibroblast (MEF) Cell Line Production, (9) Speed Expansion, (10) Chromosome Counting, (11) Genotyping, (12) Mouse Production Colony.

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Bindley Bioscience Center Judy Hallett Scientific Director: Prof. Steve Konieczny X X
X-ray Crystallography

The X-ray Crystallography Facility provides services and resources related to X-ray diffraction analysis of crystalline materials for researchers at Purdue as well as off-site users and commercial customers. The facility offers full data collection and structure analysis services, and trains users to independently use the resources on site. Types of analysis include single crystal structure analysis for organic, inorganic, metal organic and hybrid materials (indexing, unit cell and structure determinations, absolute structure), powder and multicrystalline XRD (phase ID, Rietveld analysis, high temperature measurements, thin film measurements, X-ray reflectivity). Starting Fall 2019, we will also offer X-ray fluorescence analysis. - Panalytical Empyrean Powder X-ray Diffractometer. Equipped with both parallel beam and focusing optics, high speed PIXcel 3D Medipix detector and high temperature stage for analysis of powders, multicrystalline materials and thin films. - Two Bruker D8 Quest Single Crystal Diffractometers equipped with large Photon detectors and variable temperature devices. The Mo-wavelength instrument is ideal for fast, high throughput data collection of well to weakly diffracting samples, and for heavily absorbing samples. The Cu-wavelength microsource instrument is ideal for very weakly diffracting and small crystals and absolute structure determination.

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WTHR Matthias Zeller X X