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Automated Thermal Cycler capable of performing PCR reactions at a high-throughput scale.
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Synthetic Biology
Flash chromatography system equipped with an external evaporative light-scattering detector.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Synthesis and Formulation
Aqueous or organic solvent evaporator.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Synthesis and Formulation
Deep well plate washer that aspirates and dispenses into 96- and 384-well deep well and standard height microplates.
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Synthetic Biology
Analysis of a broad range of compounds including small molecules, peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, and synthetic polymers.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Characterization and Properties
State of the art 3D printer capable of creating “layerless” components with smooth external surfaces and solid cross-sectional areas of printed features via continuous liquid interface production technology (CLIP).
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Additive Manufacturing
Bioprint a wide range of materials and cell types.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Additive Manufacturing
Synthesis and Formulation
Digital light processing (DLP) printer for applications in microfluidics, cell-laden hydrogels, macroporous structures, and more.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Additive Manufacturing
Synthesis and Formulation
An automated robotic synthesis platform for the synthesis of a range of biomaterials.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Synthesis and Formulation
High-throughput electroporator capable of electroporating bacteria, yeast, fungi, and mammalian cells.
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Synthetic Biology
State-of-the-art automated liquid handler designed to streamline workflows, optimize assay precision, and ensure consistency
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Synthetic Biology
High-performance parallel evaporator system
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Synthesis and Formulation
Fully automated microbial colony picker that picks colonies based on size, shape, color, isolation distance, and circularity.
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Synthetic Biology
Automated high-throughput parallel synthesis of novel peptides and related structures (peptoids and other solid-phase synthesized sequence specific materials).
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Synthesis and Formulation
Automated high-throughput parallel synthesis of peptides, peptidomimetics, and peptide-polymer conjugates.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Synthesis and Formulation
A custom-built micro-rheology platform for the rapid analysis of material viscoelasticity.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Characterization and Properties
A state-of-the-art transmission electron microscope dedicated to characterization of biomaterials.
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Characterization and Properties
Material preservation through lyophilization.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Synthesis and Formulation
An automated platform for synthetic biology.
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Synthetic Biology
Polarization microscope for screening of crystalline samples
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Characterization and Properties
405nm light-driven projection printer.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Additive Manufacturing
Synthesis and Formulation
Multi-wavelength light-driven projection printer.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Additive Manufacturing
Synthesis and Formulation
Visible light printer with five LED sources for printing objects from 3D models.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Additive Manufacturing
A state-of-the-art X-ray system dedicated to characterization of biomaterials.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Characterization and Properties
A high-throughput mechanical characterization tool (modulus, adhesion, creep, stress relaxation).
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Characterization and Properties
Analytical HPLC system for the identification and quantification of complex mixtures.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Characterization and Properties
Synthesis and Formulation
Preparative Hybrid HPLC-MS for the automated purification of peptoids, peptides, oligomers, and small molecules.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Characterization and Properties
Synthesis and Formulation
A custom-built 3D printing system.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Additive Manufacturing
Plate washer designed for fast parallel washing of 96 well plates in addition to aspirating and dispensing into.
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Synthetic Biology
Automated vacuum system used for automatic rapid separation or purification of biological molecules.
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Synthetic Biology
Mechanical testing capabilities for soft materials.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Characterization and Properties
UPHLC/MS/MS for separation and analysis of metabolites.
Institution
UC Los Angeles
Research Areas
Synthetic Biology
A fully modular flow chemistry system.
Institution
UC Santa Barbara
Research Areas
Synthesis and Formulation