Housed in a remarkable facility that boasts distinctive scientific tools, BioNanoLab has over 1,100 sq. ft. of lab space and utilizes state-ofthe-art equipment and instrumentation for projects such as cell culture experiments and live cell and nanoscale imaging. Such an environment is the perfect setting to continually foster expertise and advancement in areas such as nanomaterial synthesis, biosensor development, microbiology, and prototype design and validation.
The bionanolab is a Public Health Agency of Canada's certified Biosafety Level 2 laboratory situated in the Thornbrough building at Room 2133 with equipment for cell culture experiments, live cell and nanoscale imaging, for fabricaton of PDMS-based microfluidic devices and for development of microfluidic lab on a chip sensors and biosensors.
AGILENT AFM/SPM 5500 with Olympus ILM, MAC Mode, Kelvin Probe Force Module and Resiscope Module
Conductive Scanning Probe Microscopy Module of AFM
Nikon Ti Inverted Microscope with brightfield, phase and fluorescence illumination
Dark Room for Fluorescence Live Cell Imaging
JEOL Neoscope Desktop Scanning Electron Microscope
Upright Biological Compound Microscope with UV and Halogen Source
Live Cell Imaging Facility (Incubator Microscope)
40x-1000x Plan Phase Contrast Fluorescent Inverted Microscope + Fluorescent Camera Benchtop RAMAN Spectrometer (Sierra SnowyRange 785 series)
UV Exposure System for Photolithography Brewer Science Cee200X Spin Coater and Vacuum
Pump for wafer Processing
Soft Lithography Equipments
Biotek Cytation 5 Cell Imaging Multimode-Reader
Hydroflex Microplate Washer
Barnstead Smart2Pure 3 UV/UF Laboratory Water Purification System
Plate Reader and UV-Visible Spectrometer
Protein Gel Electrophoresis System
Dual UV Transilluminator and Gel Electrophoresis System
Microfluidic Work Bench
Yamamato Autoclave SaniClave Autoclave
LCD Digital Microscope
BioSafety Cabinet
Analytical Balance Stereomicroscope
Plasma Cleaner for Surface Modification Applications Desiccator
EFD Ultra 2800 Dispensing System Harvard Syringe Pump
Isotemperature Vacuum Oven for Photoresist degassing and PDMS curing and relevant applications
Oven
UVA/B Light Meter Ultrasonic Cleaner
Digital Pipette Set
Bacti Incinerator
Balance
Multiple-position hot plate and magnetic stirrer
Water Bath
Incubator
Incubator Oven
Centrifuge
Fume Hood
Hot Plate Stirrer
Torrey Scientific Digital Hot Plates
Syringe Pump for Microfluidic Experiments Biologic Potentiostat
Power Supply Components Dropsens Potentiostat
Biosensors - Electrochemical Interface - PalmSens Potentiostat ColorQube Printer for Paper based Biosensors
Bionano Laboratory also has priority access to the following characterization equipment and instruments within the University of Guelph.
SEM, TEM, Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy - http://www.uoguelph.ca/~confocal/
XRD, SEM-EDX, XPS, FTIR - http://www.chemistry.uoguelph.ca/etc/new_instrumentation.html
Circular Dichroism - Merrill's Lab - http://www.uoguelph.ca/~rmerrill/