Research Facilities
The Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Immunology occupies approximately 20,000 square feet of lab and office space on four floors of the University of Kansas Medical Center basic science complex in the Orr Major, Wahl East and West as well as Hixon buildings ( campus map). The Department houses a number of research core facilities. These include the X-Ray Crystallography Core, the Protein Expression and Purification Core and facilities for measuring cytokine arrays.
In addition, the Medical Center and the research centers of the institution have a range of core facilities available to the faculty on a fee-for-service basis.
- Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory
BD FACSAria and LSR II flow cytometers for analysis and cell sorting - Genome Sequencing Facility
- Microarray Facility
- Electron Microscopy Facility
- Gene Targeting and Transgenics Facility
Transgenic and knockout mouse model development - Histology Imaging Analysis Core
Digital acquisition, analysis, and printing of images obtained from biological specimens - Integrative Imaging
Confocal and Light Microscopy - Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory
Focusing on studies with virulent strains of Francisella tularensis - Bioinformatics Core Laboratory
Microarray data analysis
Microbiology Common Equipment:
Please contact Elizabeth Jenkins at ejenkins2@kumc.edu to use any equipment listed below.
3001 Wahl Hall West (Common Equipment Room)
Beckman LS6500 Scintillation Counter
BioTek Synergy Plate Reader
Fuji Film LAS 4000 Imaging Scanner
Typhoon Phosphoimager
LiCor Odyssey Imaging
Beckman L8-M Ultracentrifuge
Roche LifeCycler PCR Machine
4002 Hixon
Film Processor
4004 Hixon
UV Spectrophotometer
4009 Orr-Major
Live Cell Imaging Microscope