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Cell Biology Core Facility - Located in McKinly Hall, this facility provides cell and molecular biology services to the University community.  Services include cell culture preparation and maintenance, hybridoma production, DNA transfection services, fluorescence microscopy, and DNA sequencing.  Available equipment includes a dual injection luminometer, a plate reader, phosphorimager, chemiimager and laser densitomer.

Charles C. Allen, Jr. Biotechnology Laboratory - The Charles C. Allen, Jr. Biotechnology Laboratory is a 16,635 sq. ft. facility located in the Townsend/Worrilow Hall complex.  This building has two large BL-3 level biocontainment laboratory suites with adjoining animal rooms and an additional six animal rooms that function independent of the laboratories.   All animal rooms are entered through airlocks to prevent the introduction or release of infectious agents.  These rooms are equipped with either modified, custom-designed HEPA-filtered isolation cabinets or Montaire-Andersen (glove-port) isolation cabinets.

Computer facilities - Laboratories and offices are equipped with a wide variety of personal computers.  The College houses a Sun workstation located in the Charles C. Allen Biotechnology Laboratory with both Sybase and Oracle data management systems.  The University of Delaware has a variety of centrally supported computing systems including new Ultra Enterprise 4000 servers and provides internet access for employees and students.

Confocal microscopy - Confocal microscopy can be done using a core facility equipped with a Zeiss LSM 510 confocal microscope with Argon Krypton 488/568 and HeNe 633 visible wavelength lasers.  This facility is currently located in Wolf Hall on the University of Delaware campus and will be relocated to the Delaware Biotechnology Institute in 2001.

Cooperative Extension System - The University of Delaware Cooperative Extension System was established in 1914 as a partnership among federal, state, and local governments.  It is an educational branch of USDA, the University of Delaware, Delaware State University, and Delaware county government.  The mission is to help people improve the quality of their lives by providing research-based information, and informal educational opportunities focused on individual, family, and community needs.  There is a local delivery infrastructure in place in each county with agricultural agents and horticultural agents.   Interactive video conference facilities are located in Georgetown at the University of Delaware Research and Education Center and the main campus in Newark and directly linked to each other.  Each room can hold 20-25 participants and is equipped with state-of-the-art computer projectors.

Delaware Biotechnology Institute - The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI), established in 1999 to position Delaware as a leader in biotechnology, is a partnership among state government, Delaware’s institutions of higher education, and area industry.  A 72,000 sq. ft. research facility has just been constructed at the Delaware Technology Park.  This facility will house 150-180 interdisciplinary researchers (University faculty, their research groups and professional support). The facility contains individual laboratory spaces (23 @1000ft² each), offices, conference rooms, many interactive spaces and over 15,000ft² of common equipment areas. There will be centralized research instrumentation for bioimaging, bioinformatics, proteomics, functional genomics and biophysical chemistry. At other UD campus locations, the Institute is upgrading structural biology capabilities (a 600MHz NMR) and building a new Plant Growth Facility.  Over the next two years DBI will build an equipment infrastructure in excess of $15 million for use by the DBI research network.  Standard instrumentation in the DBI facility includes a full complement of Beckmann/ Eppendorf ultra and high speed centrifuges, Beckmann UV/Vis spectrophotometers, various shaking and static environmental incubators and liquid scintillation instrumentation. There are three independent tissue culture suites with class II bio-containment hoods, two cold rooms and a plant growth facility with 2 Conviron MTPC144 chambers. There are also centrally located sterilization and glassware washing and treatment rooms.

Delaware Technology Park (DTP) high throughput DNA sequencing facility - A high throughput DNA sequencing facility owned by the E. I. Dupont de Nemours & Co., Inc. is located two miles from Worrilow Hall at Delaware Technology Park.   The facility contains 6 ABI 3077 sequencers and can generate nearly 5,000 lanes of sequence per day.  The facility maintains a Sybase data management system, developed by Dupont with both text and nucleotide searching capabilities.  University researchers can access this facility via a contractual arrangement between Dupont and the University of Delaware.  A memorandum of understanding between the University and Dupont gives the title and rights to all University-generated clones to the University.

DNA sequencing core facility - A DNA sequencing facility with two ABI 377 DNA sequencers is located in the Charles C. Allen, Jr. Biotechnology Laboratory and is available for users throughout the University of Delaware campus.  Each sequencer has 64 lane capacity, and the potential throughput for the facility is 256 lanes per day.  Sequences are stored on a Sun Enterprise 450 server.

Fischer Greenhouse Laboratory - Includes headhouse containing equipment room, growth chamber room, media preparation room, fertilizer, pesticide and pot storage rooms, classrooms, student laboratory and manager's office, and over 10,000 sq. ft. of glasshouse space for a total of 24,037 sq. ft.  A new, $1.5 million plant growth facility, including state-of-the-art growth chambers, seed drying and storage and autoclave capabilities, will be built this spring.

Major equipment available to the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Two ABI Prism 377 DNA sequencers
Molecular Dynamics Storm 840 phosphorimager with ImagQuant software (Molecular Dynamics, Inc.)
Alpha Innotech gel documentation system
OTD-75B and OTD-50 ultracentrifuges with SW27, AH650, Type 865.1 and Type 19 rotors
Type 14XL automated film processor (AFP Imaging Corp.)
Beckman TA5000 liquid scintillation counter
ICP - Thermal Jarrel Ash Enviro II, located in the College Analytical Services Laboratory
FTIR - Perkin Elmer Model 1720 with transmission, diffuse reflectance and attenuated total reflectance (Spectra Tech horizontal ATR) sample cells
         and Gas Purge System
X-ray diffractometer - Phillips X'PRT Model PW 3040, located in the Department of Chemical Engineering
Thermal gravimetric analyzer (TGA) - TA Instruments Hi-Res TGA 2950
Flame and Graphite Furnace Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer, Perkin Elmer A Analyst 800
Dionex IC with autosampler, auto integration
French pressure cell

Special classroom facilities - Newly renovated Townsend Hall has a microcomputing/teaching facility fully equipped with workstations so that hands-on experience can be provided to approximately forty individuals simultaneously.  In addition, both Townsend Hall, the Charles C. Allen Biotechnology Laboratory, and the Lasher Laboratory in Georgetown, DE  have ITV facilities.

Townsend Hall branch library - This branch of the University of Delaware library provides a specialized collection of 22,000 books and bound periodicals on animal and food sciences, plant and soil sciences, entomology, wildlife management, agricultural engineering technology and biotechnology, and food and resource economics.  The branch subscribes to over 225 periodicals and scholarly journals and has reserve materials available.  The library has seating for 24, including six computer stations.

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