Facilities and Equipment
The following equipment is located within the Biology Department or individual investigators’ laboratories of the Gilbert Science Center at Augustana College:
- Accuri Flowcytometer
- Agilent Bioanalyzer
- Cepheid Smart Cycler for real time PCR
- Perkin-Elmer thermal cyclers
- Olympus confocal scanning laser microscope
- Leica inverted microscope with DIC, fluorescence, live imaging apparatus and video capability
- dissecting fluorescent microscope
- phase contrast microscope with epifluorescence
- research quality light microscopes and phase contrast microscopes
- Flaming/Brown micropipette puller
- scanning densitometer
- digital imaging station with 16-bit camera for imaging DNA gels, protein gels and chemiluminescent detection
- digital video editing workstation
- multifunction spectrofluorimeter plate reader with fluorescent and luminescent capability
- liquid scintillation counter
- gamma counter for immunoassays
- isotope ratio mass spectrometer
- ultra-low background gamma counter for 210-Pb radioisotope dating
- biosafety cabinet for tissue culture and full tissue culture setup
- several types of spectrophotometers, UV cross-linker, centrifuges, microcentrifuges, speedvac concentrator, CO2 incubators, bacterial incubators, chicken egg incubators, -80oC freezers and other standard lab equipment.
In addition, facilities in the Gilbert Science Center include:
- a vivarium
- a triple environment greenhouse
- a growth chamber room with four environmental growth chambers
- a field vehicle
- a boat
- gear for terrestrial and aquatic field studies.






