I currently manage shared equipment facilities used by over 100 researchers. Responsible for negotiating all equipment maintenance contracts and service calls as well as purchasing new and used equipment. Responsible for ensuring lab personnel are properly trained on all equipment. Shared facilities include Micro CT Core facility, microscope room, cell culture rooms, Injection room, histology room, cold room, sterilization and glasswashing room, and dark room. Equipment includes Xradia Micro XCT-200, SCANCO Micro CT 35, confocal microscope,Zeiss AxioimagerM1, and Stereo discovery V8 research microscopes, Leica DMIRB, MZ8, and MZFLIII research microscopes, Nikon Optiphot, and other assorted microscopes, Leica TP1020 automated tissue processor, and CM 3000 cryostat, Shandon embedding centers, Bio-Rad thermonuclear, Invitrogen real-time PCR machines, other assorted PCR machines, Pressure Biosystems Barocycler, Perkin Elmer Scintillation counter, micro X-ray, Buxton Model 1 lab glass washers and model 9402 Sterilizers, Turner luminometer, Molecular Dynamics versamax plate reader, Kodak automated film developer, assorted low, high, and ultra speed centrifuges, assorted CO2 and non CO2 incubators, microtomes, ultra low temperature freezers, hybridization ovens, spectrophotometers, ultra pure water systems, gel documentation systems, gel dryers, sonicators, speed vac, liquid nitrogen, dry ice, CO2, and nitrogen gas stocks., computers and printers. Responsible for administering several server servers for MicroCT data analysis.

Oral Cancer Research, Molecular Biology, Protein Expression, Cell Culture, Animal Research (mice)

Oral Cancer Research, Molecular Biology, Protein Expression, Cell Culture, Animal Research (mice)