BioGenerator shared services include extensive wet and dry laboratories and associated infrastructure. Also included are shared workspaces, meeting and conference facilities, and amenities.
Who's it for?
Anyone who needs a lot of lab equipment, which is provided by BioGenerator. In addition, companies can bring their own equipment into the shared or private labs, subject to approval by the BioGenerator staff.
Companies other than those in the BioSTL/BioGenerator portfolio can apply for facilities usage, though the latter are prioritized.
Amenities
In addition to standard lab equipment (refrigerators, freezers [both -20C and -80C], water baths, heat blocks, vortexors, milliQ water supply, wet ice, dry ice, gas cylinders, electrophoresis power supplies, small benchtop microfuges etc), Biogenerator Accelerator Labs makes the following larger pieces of equipment available to tenant companies:
— Beckman Avanti J30i high speed centrifuge (floor model)
— Beckman Avanti J26XPi high speed centrifuge (floor model)
— Wide selection of rotors for above centrifuges
— Beckman LE-80 ultracentrifuge (floor model)
— Limited selection of rotors for above ultracentrifuge (SW-28, VTi -50, 50-Ti)
— Eppendorf 5810R refrigerated benchtop centrifuge
— Sorvall RT7 refrigerated benchtop centrifuge
— IST 7100R refrigerated floor shaker / incubator
— IST 4075R refrigerated benchtop shaker / incubator
— IST 3075R refrigerated benchtop shaker / incubator (three available)
— Biosafety cabinets for tissue culture, Class 2, type A2
— Water jacketed CO2 incubators
— BioRad ChemiDoc MP imaging system
— Licor Odyssey CLx Imaging system
— UV/Vis spectrophotometer for cuvettes
— UV/Vis microplate readers (multiple – Abs, Fluoresence & Chemiluminescence)
— Nanodrop UV/vis spectophotometer
— Waters HPLS with UV/Vis and fluorescence detectors
— Agilent HPLC system
— Agilent HPLC-MS system
— Gilson Prep HPLC
— CombiFlash unit
— CEM microwave system
— Rotovap system
— Freezedryers (both bottle and tray types)
— PCR thermal cyclers (multiple models)
— 96-well & 384-well Q-PCR systems
— Dissecting microscopes
— Inverted phase-contrast microscopes (Optika IM3)
— Inverted fluorescence microscope (Zeiss Axiovert)
— Sonication systems (both tip and bath)
— BioTek ELx405 plate washers (384/96-well)
— LN2 storage dewars
— Thermo-Forma CryoMed controlled rate freezer
— PCR hoods
— Malvern zeta sizer nano 5 dynamic light scattering device
— BioRad TC20 cell counter
— Chemometic NC200 cell counter
— Attune Nxt flow cytometer
— BioRad Protean IEF system
— BioRad Transblot SD transfer systems
— BioRad Gene Pulser electroporator