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Natural Science & Mathmatics - Academic Study of Science from a Christian Perspective - Roberts Wesleyan College, Rochester, NY

FACILITIES, LABS, AND EQUIPMENT

The division provides well-equipped laboratory facilities and computer support of instruction. The College has been the recipient of Three National Science Foundation matching grants providing funds for the purchase of equipment and instrumentation used in the biochemistry, cell biology, and organic chemistry laboratories. Students are given a variety of “hands on” experience with laboratory equipment.

The Applied Biosystems 9700 thermocycler is an instrument that will efficiently amplify specific DNA sequences that are needed in forensic DNA identity testing and will amplify DNA fragments that can be used in undergraduate research and molecular genetics cloning experiments.

The Applied Biosystems 7500 real time PCR instrument allows students to accurately quantitate the amount of a specific DNA sequence present in an unknown sample. This is useful in forensic DNA identity testing where the amount of DNA from a suspect sample must be known in order to complete the DNA identity testing procedures.

We are very excited to announce that we now have confocal microscope.
The confocal microscope is a quantum leap in microscope technology that is currently the rage in many research laboratories today.

The microscope allows one to view cells at the subcellular level and variable depth using a laser scanning system as the light source and capturing the emission of light from fluorescently labeled sub-cellular organelles with high sensitivity and high resolution.

The design of the laser scanning system and image capture allows one to focus very sharply at one specific location in the cell and eliminate scattered light from other more distant locations.

The EFT 90 NMR is a Fourier-transform NMR instrument developed by Anasazi Instruments and funded by a CCLI matching grant from the National Science Foundation. This 90 MHz instrument is used by students to examine proton and carbon-13 spectra from a variety of organic and biochemical compounds that are synthesized and studied in the laboratory.

EFT 90 NMR

Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer

The gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GC-MS) is a powerful instrumental combination that allows a mixture of compounds to be separated by gas chromatography and then each separate compound is fragmented in a strong beam of electrons and identified by the molecular fragments that are produced. The GC-MS instrument used is the Focus DSQII by Finnigan.

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