CEMB has a broad collection of both commercial and unique research resources available for use by all fellows. Please contact the CEMB faculty fellow in charge to use a specific resource:
- Capabilities: 3D Printing
- Location: School of Engineering (Penn)
- Facility manager: Peter Szczesniak
- CEMB faculty fellow: Dan Huh
Advanced Optical and Force Microscopy Facility
- Capabilities: Atomic force microscope (AFM), Optical tweezers, Total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscope
- Location: Pennsylvania Muscle Institute (Penn)
- Facility manager: Henry Shuman
- CEMB faculty fellow: Michael Ostap
- Capabilities: Instruments for both dry and wet AFM
- Location: Institute for Medicine and Engineering (Penn)
- Facility manager: Paul A. Janmey
- CEMB faculty fellow: Paul Janmey
BioInterface Technologies Facility
- Capabilities: AFM, Instron microtester, Rheometer, Quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation, q-PCR, plate reader
- Location: BME Core Facilities (BU)
- Facility manager: Xin Brown
- CEMB faculty fellow: Christopher Chen
BioInterface Technologies Facility
- Capabilities: TIRF, Epi-fluorescence and Confocal microscopes
- Location: BME Core Facilities (BU)
- Facility manager: Xin Brown
- CEMB faculty fellow: Christopher Chen
Biology Department Imaging Facility
- Capabilities: Confocal and low light imaging systems, Deltavision deconvolution system, Epifluorescence microscope
- Location: Biology (WUSTL)
- Facility manager: Dianne Duncan
- CEMB faculty fellow: Ram Dixit
Biomedical Mass Spectrometry Resource
- Capabilities: GC-MS, Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS), Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry (FTICR-MS), Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization (MALDI), Tandem MS, H/D Exchange MS, Proteomics, Lipidomics, Metabolomics
- Location: Chemistry and School of Medicine (WUSTL)
- Facility managers: Weidong Cui, Kevin Yarasheski, John Turk
- CEMB faculty fellow: Marcus Foston
- Capabilities: AFM, Confocal Microscope, SEM, Electrospinning, 3D printing, Real-Time PCR, Differential Scanning Calorimenter (DSC), IR Spectroscopy Microscope, Zetasizer particle characterization, Flow Cytometry System
- Location: College of Science, Mathematics, and Technology (ASU)
- Facility manager: Shree Singh
- CEMB faculty fellow: Derrick Dean
Chemical Analysis Core Facility
- Capabilities: Ion chromatograph, FTIR, UV-Vis Spectrometer, NMR, XRD, BET System, TGA, Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS), HPLC systems, Flame AA
- Location: Otto H. York Center (NJIT)
- Facility manager: Helen Gramcko
- CEMB faculty fellow: William Hunter
Genome Technology Access Center
- Capabilities: Next-generation sequencing services
- Location: School of Medicine (WUSTL)
- Facility manager: Toni Sinnwell, Twyla Juehne, Chris Sawyer
- CEMB faculty fellow: Elizabeth Haswell
High Resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility
- Capabilities: Solution and Solid State NMR, Dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) NMR
- Location: Chemistry (WUSTL)
- Facility managers: Brian Marsden and Jeff Kao
- CEMB faculty fellow: Marcus Foston
High Throughput Sequencing Core
- Capabilities: High-throughput sequencing services
- Location: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (Penn)
- Facility managers: Eric Rappaport and Eric Bao
- CEMB faculty fellow: Robert Mauck
- Capabilities: Sixty-two computational nodes, each with four Intel E5-4620 8-core 2.2GHz processors and 64GB RAM.
- Location: School of Engineering (Penn)
- Facility manager: Jim Kaylor (Interim Director)
- CEMB faculty fellow: Vivek Shenoy
High-Performance Computing Center
- Capabilities: An array of multi-processor computers (clusters).
- Location: Physics (WUSTL)
- Facility manager: Malcolm Tobias
- CEMB faculty fellow: Anders Carlsson
ITMAT Biomechanics Core Facility
- Capabilities: Custom polyacrylamide hydrogels; Traction force microscopy; Cell atomic force microscopy; Pressure myography
- Location: ITMAT, (Penn)
- Facility managers: Paola Castagnino, Ian Roberts
- CEMB faculty fellow: Richard Assoian
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering (IMSE) Facilities
- Capabilities: Ellipsometer, Profilometer, Spin coater, Reactive Ion Etching, TEM, SEM, X-Ray/Ultraviolet Photoeletron Spectrometer (XPS), X-ray Powder Diffraction (XRD), PPMS, Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometer (SIMS)
- Location: IMSE (WUSTL)
- Facility managers: Huafang Li, Tyrone Daulton
- CEMB faculty fellow: Guy Genin
Jeanette Goldfarb Plant Growth Facility
- Capabilities: 10,000 sq. ft. facility consists of support space, greenhouses and a growth chamber facility
- Location: Biology (WUSTL)
- Facility manager: Michael Dyer
- CEMB faculty fellow: Elizabeth Haswell
Jens Molecular and Nanoscale Analysis Laboratory
- Capabilities: Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometer (ICP-MS), Flame Atomic Absorption Spectrometer, Gas Chromatograph – Mass Spectrometer (GC-MS), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FT-IR), Dynamic Light Scattering (DLS), Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA)
- Location: School of Engineering (WUSTL)
- Facility manager: Patty Wurm
- CEMB faculty fellow: Marcus Foston
Life Sciences and Engineering Facility
- Capabilities: New – To be built by January 2017. Wet and dry laboratories, cell culture, microscopy (multiphoton laser scanning microscope, AFM, SEM, TEM), micro-CT, fluorescence spectral mapping and imaging system, FTIR, Ellipsometer
- Location: Life Sciences (NJIT)
- Facility manager: William Hunter
- CEMB faculty fellow: William Hunter
Material Characterization Core Facility
- Capabilities: AFM, Near Field Optical Microscope, SEM, Raman, particle size analyzer (DLS, static laser diffraction), fluorescence spectrophotometer, dielectric spectroscopy
- Location: Otto H. York Center (NJIT)
- Facility manager: Larisa Krishtopa
- CEMB faculty fellow: William Hunter
Micro/Nano Biosystems Fabrication Facilities
- Capabilities: Asher, Mask aligner, Ellipsometer, Spinner, E-Beam, Evaporator, PECVD
- Location: BME Core Facilities (BU)
- Facility manager: Ze’ve Feit
- CEMB faculty fellow: Christopher Chen
Microelectronics Fabrication Center
- Capabilities: Class-10 and Class-1000 cleanrooms, photolithography, wet chemical processing, dry etching, thin film deposition and oxidation, and wafer bonding
- Location: Microelectronics Center (NJIT)
- Facility manager: Dentcho Ivanov
- CEMB faculty fellow: William Hunter
Nanomaterials Fabrication and Characterization Facility
- Capabilities: AJA ATC Orion Sputtering Deposition System, Karl Suss MJB3 mask aligner for lithography patterning, Zeiss microscope, Filmetrics film thickness measurement, Princeton Applied Research potentiostat (VersaSTAT-200) for templated electrochemical deposition, PMS MicroMagTM 3900 vibrating sample magnetometer
- Location: Department of Physics (Bryn Mawr)
- Facility manager: Xuemei Cheng
- CEMB faculty fellow: Xuemei Cheng
Nanoscale Characterization Facility
- Capabilities: SEM, TEM, Focused Ion Beam, AFM, Ion scattering
- Location: Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Penn)
- Facility manager: Douglas Yates
- CEMB faculty fellow: Jason Burdick
NBIC Scanning and Local Probe Facility
- Capabilities: AFM, Scanning tunneling microscope (STM), Raman Spectrometer, TIRF
- Location: Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Penn)
- Facility manager: Matt Brukman
- CEMB faculty fellow: Jason Burdick
- Capabilities: A fully climate controlled growth house integrated with a multi-camera digital imaging system for automatic and high-throughput phenotypic characterization of up to 1,140 plants at multiple time points.
- Location: Danforth Plant Science Center (WUSTL)
- Facility manager: Mindy Wilson
- CEMB faculty fellow: Ram Dixit
- Capabilities: Physical Property Measurement System (PPMS)
- Location: Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Penn)
- Facility manager: Jay Kikkawa
- CEMB faculty fellow: Jason Burdick
Quantitative and Spectral Optical Imaging
- Capabilities: Confocal fluorescence correlation microscopy, confocal fluorescence photobleaching recovery, confocal inverse FCS, confocal fluorescence intensity distribution analysis, macroscale fluorescence imaging, live cell imaging
- Location: School of Engineering (WUSTL)
- Facility manager: Kenneth Pryse
- CEMB faculty fellow: Guy Genin
Quattrone Nanofabrication Facility
- Capabilities: Lithography, Deposition, Dry Etch, Laser Micro-machining, Metrology
- Location: Singh Center for Nanotechnology (Penn)
- Facility managers: Noah Clay and Kevin Turner
- CEMB faculty fellow: Jason Burdick
- Capabilities: Design and construct custom research instrumentation and apparatus
- Location: School of Medicine (Penn)
- Facility manager: Bill Pennie
- CEMB faculty fellow: Yale Goldman
Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)
- Capabilities: One of the most powerful and advanced computing center in the world. Provides high performance computing, visualization, data analysis, storage, software, and cloud, gateways & portal interfaces.
- Location: Advanced Computing Center (UT Austin)
- Facility manager: Dave Thirumalai
- CEMB faculty fellow: Dave Thirumalai
Tissue Culture and Transformation
- Capabilities: Plant genetic transformations and cell/ tissue culture
- Location: Danforth Plant Science Center (WUSTL)
- Facility manager: Kevin Lutke
- CEMB faculty fellow: Ram Dixit
Washington University Center for Cellular Imaging
- Capabilities: Scanning and spinning disk confocal microscopes, Fluorescence Microscope, Fluorescence stereoscope, scanning and transmission electron microscopes, and tissue culture and sample preparation facilities
- Location: School of Medicine (WUSTL)
- Facility manager: James Fitzpatrick
- CEMB faculty fellow: Ram Dixit
