Core Facilities

BRC provides a wide range of basic equipment to the SBS community on a shared basis. Most of the instruments are available for booking through the FOM Central Equipment Booking System. Please contact us if you need access and basic training.

Instruments managed by us include:

• Autoclaves (Hirayama HV-110)
• Shaking incubators (NBS Innova 44, NBS Innova 44R, NBS Excella E25, Thermo Scientific MaxQ 6000)
• Ultracentrifuges (Beckman Coulter Optima Max, Beckman Coulter Optima XPN-100, Hitachi Himac CP90WX)
• High-speed centrifuges & rotors (Beckman High Speed Centrifuge J-25, Beckman JXN-26, Beckman JA-10/JA-25.50/JLA-9.1000/JA14 rotors; Thermo Fisher Lynx 4000 superspeed centrifuge, Thermo Fisher F10/F12/A27 rotors)
• Homogenizers (Microfluidics Microfluidizer LM20)
• Plate readers (BioTek Cytation 5, BioTek Synergy H1, Tecan Infinite M200Pro, Tecan Infinite 200 Pro M Plex)
• qPCR systems (Bio-Rad CFX96 Touch, Bio-Rad CFX96 Real-Time Thermal Cycler, Bio-Rad CFX Connect, Bio-Rad 384 Real-Time qPCR)
• Imaging systems (Bio-Rad ChemiDoc MP, Thermo Fisher iBright FL1500, Amersham IQ800 Fluor/UV, LI-COR Odyssey CLx)
• Histology equipment (Leica CM1950 cryostat, Leica RM2265 microtome, HistoCore Arcadia H)
• Sequencing (Oxford Nanopore P2 Solo + GPU PC)
• Electroporator (Bio-Rad GenePulser Xcell)
• Sterilizer (Getinge Sterilizer)