Equipment and Facilities Available to Raizada Lab Personnel
The Raizada Lab is fortunate to have access to extensive, new equipment and facilities, either within the lab or walking distance, including $2 million in common-use equipment and a $1.3
million 8-house transgenic greenhouse facility co-designed by Manish for transgenic maize (to add to 8 existing greenhouses and 10 indoor growth rooms). In addition to $300,000 of equipment recently purchased by the Raizada Lab, all personnel have access to 3 common
equipment rooms (on each floor). Special thanks to Prof. Peter Pauls who has tirelessly spearheaded equipment- and facility-building efforts on behalf of the Department with generous funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT).
The Raizada Lab is fortunate to have access to extensive, new equipment and facilities, either within the lab or walking distance, including $2 million in common-use equipment and a $1.3
million 8-house transgenic greenhouse facility co-designed by Manish for transgenic maize (to add to 8 existing greenhouses and 10 indoor growth rooms). In addition to $300,000 of equipment recently purchased by the Raizada Lab, all personnel have access to 3 common
equipment rooms (on each floor). Special thanks to Prof. Peter Pauls who has tirelessly spearheaded equipment- and facility-building efforts on behalf of the Department with generous funding from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) and Ontario Innovation Trust (OIT).
Additional Facilities in Dept. of Agriculture at University of Guelph
Researchers in the Raizada Lab have access to extensive field station facilities throughout Southern Ontario, in addition to dozens of contained plant growth chambers, 10 indoor growth rooms and 16 greenhouses, including a new $1.3 million automated high-light transgenic
greenhouse facility (up to 2000 µMol m2 sec balanced light) designed specifically for transgenic maize, completed in 2002. Within the Crop Science Building or a short-walk away, Lab personnel have access to the following equipment:
•Fluorescence microscopes (Crop Science Microscope Room and Colasanti Lab, MCB)
•Confocal microscope (Department of MCB)
•Fluorescence-activated cell sorter (Pauls lab, Crop Science)
•96-well robotic liquid handling equipment (Common Room, 3rdfloor, Crop Science)
•96-well visible light spectrophotometer (Bowley Lab, Crop Science)
•Quantitative real-time PCR machines (Pauls Lab, Crop Science)
•2D gel electrophoresis and spot cutter equipment
•Controlled gas exchange growth chambers (Dixon and Grodinski Labs, Bovey)
•DNA capillary sequencer (Pauls Lab, Crop Science)
•Scanning electron microscopes (Food Science Building, first floor)
•UV light gel doc imaging systems (Common Rooms, Crop Science)
•Fluorescence and luminescence video imaging facilities
•Gas-Chromatography Mass Spectrophotometers (GC-MS)
•Gas-exchange analytical equipment (Dixon and Grodinski Labs, Bovey)
•Helium particle gun for plant transformation (3 in Crop Science Building)
•High-throughput luminometer
•fluorescence plate readers
•HPLC/FPLC for analytical chemistry and protein purification
•MALDI-TOF equipment for proteomic analysis
•Leaf surface area and yield analysis equipment
•Liquid-Chromatography Mass Spectrophotometer
•Microarray gene chip reader
•Spectroradiometer (Tollenaar Lab, Crop Science)
•Carbon exchange rate (CER) equipment (Tollenaar Lab, Crop Science)
•Leaf area index measuring equipment (1st floor, Crop Science and Dixon Lab, Bovey)
•Tissue freeze dryers (Common Rooms, Crop Science)
•Ultracentrifuges (Common Room, 4th floor, Crop Science)
•Seed counters and dryers (1st floor breeding lab, Crop Science)
•Bead-based tissue crusher for high-throughput DNA isolation, mapping (molecular breeding lab, 2nd floor CS)
greenhouse facility (up to 2000 µMol m2 sec balanced light) designed specifically for transgenic maize, completed in 2002. Within the Crop Science Building or a short-walk away, Lab personnel have access to the following equipment:
•Fluorescence microscopes (Crop Science Microscope Room and Colasanti Lab, MCB)
•Confocal microscope (Department of MCB)
•Fluorescence-activated cell sorter (Pauls lab, Crop Science)
•96-well robotic liquid handling equipment (Common Room, 3rdfloor, Crop Science)
•96-well visible light spectrophotometer (Bowley Lab, Crop Science)
•Quantitative real-time PCR machines (Pauls Lab, Crop Science)
•2D gel electrophoresis and spot cutter equipment
•Controlled gas exchange growth chambers (Dixon and Grodinski Labs, Bovey)
•DNA capillary sequencer (Pauls Lab, Crop Science)
•Scanning electron microscopes (Food Science Building, first floor)
•UV light gel doc imaging systems (Common Rooms, Crop Science)
•Fluorescence and luminescence video imaging facilities
•Gas-Chromatography Mass Spectrophotometers (GC-MS)
•Gas-exchange analytical equipment (Dixon and Grodinski Labs, Bovey)
•Helium particle gun for plant transformation (3 in Crop Science Building)
•High-throughput luminometer
•fluorescence plate readers
•HPLC/FPLC for analytical chemistry and protein purification
•MALDI-TOF equipment for proteomic analysis
•Leaf surface area and yield analysis equipment
•Liquid-Chromatography Mass Spectrophotometer
•Microarray gene chip reader
•Spectroradiometer (Tollenaar Lab, Crop Science)
•Carbon exchange rate (CER) equipment (Tollenaar Lab, Crop Science)
•Leaf area index measuring equipment (1st floor, Crop Science and Dixon Lab, Bovey)
•Tissue freeze dryers (Common Rooms, Crop Science)
•Ultracentrifuges (Common Room, 4th floor, Crop Science)
•Seed counters and dryers (1st floor breeding lab, Crop Science)
•Bead-based tissue crusher for high-throughput DNA isolation, mapping (molecular breeding lab, 2nd floor CS)