The fourth floor of Bessey Hall is home to the Core Facility of the Center for Plant Responses to Environmental Stress (CPRES), of which Bogdanove is a participating faculty member. The facility houses the following major equipment: low speed bench top refrigerated centrifuge, Dupont Biolistic Particle Delivery System (“gene gun”), laminar flow hoods (4), electroporator and Micropulser, Speed Vac, Biorad gel imager, Molecular Dynamics Phosphoimager, UV transilluminator(s), liquid N2, 37°C floor model shaker, 30°C floor model shaker, ice machines (domestic and distilled H2O), sonicator, Cary spectrophotometer, 30°C and 37°C Precision Scientific incubators, scintillation counter, film processor, ultracentrifuge with rotors, autoclaves, water deionizer, "Light Cycler" quantitative PCR machine, Labconco lyophilizer, 250°C RNA drying oven, Hitachi spectrofluorimeter, Sorvall centrifuge and rotor, Stratalinker, and Kodak Image Station. A half-time manager oversees use and maintenance of the facility. This person also is responsible for upkeep of four cold rooms, a tissue culture room, and four growth chambers on the fourth floor of Bessey Hall, as well as twelve growth chambers located in the basement of Bessey Hall, which can be rented out as needed.
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