Research Laboratories

Building: S. Giuseppe, 3rd floor – Room C33
Capacity: 10 seats
Main research use: Protein biochemistry
Field: Biology and Biotechnology

Equipment available:

• Microplate reader (Tecan Spark 10M)

• Double-beam spectrophotometer (Shimadzu UV1800)

• Concentrator (Eppendorf Concentrator Plus)

• Isoelectric focusing system (Protean i12)

• Protein electrophoresis systems

• Probe sonicator

• Centrifuge (Fresco21)

• Centrifuge (Megafuge 16R)

• Analytical and technical balance

• Rocking shaker

• Water bath

• Thermoblock, pH meter, vortex, heating plate, stirrer

• Chemical fume hood

• Deionized water dispenser

• Refrigerator-freezer

Building: S. Giuseppe, 3rd floor – Room C32
Capacity: 15 seats
Main research use: Plant physiology and genetics
Field: Biology and Biotechnology

Equipment available:

• Homogenizer (Tissue Lyser)

• Microscope (Leica DM100 LED)

• Drying oven

• Technical balance

• Rocking shaker

• pH meter, vortex, heating plate, stirrer

• Chemical fume hood

• Biological safety cabinet

• Deionized water dispenser

• Refrigerator-freezer

Building: S. Giuseppe, 2nd floor – Room C23
Capacity: 9 seats
Field: Chemistry

Equipment available:

• FT-IR spectrophotometer, Nicolet iS50

• FT-IR spectrophotometer, Shimadzu IRX20ross

• Analytical thermobalance, Setaram TGA labSys EVO 1150°C

• Tubular furnace, Cabolite 1200 °C

• Differential scanning calorimeter (DSC) – on loan from Buzzi Unicem

• Ion liquid chromatograph, Dionex – on loan from Buzzi Unicem

• NIR spectrophotometer, Bruker – on loan from Buzzi Unicem

• Technical balance

• Hydraulic press

• BET-Autosor-1 for surface area measurements, Quantachrome Instruments

• Turbomolecular pump, PFEIFFER, Vacuum DCU

Building: S. Giuseppe, 2nd floor – Room C27
Capacity: 15 seats
Field: Chemistry

Equipment available:

• Dual-laser micro-Raman spectrophotometer, Horiba

• Universal testing machine (tension/compression/deformation), Zwick-Roell

• UV-Vis-NIR spectrophotometer Cary5000, Agilent

• Edinburgh Instruments Spectrofluorimeter

• Solar simulator lamp, Oriel

Building: S. Giuseppe, 2nd floor – Room C27
Capacity: 15 seats
Field: Physics

Equipment available:

• Probe Station MPS 150 coaxial con 4 microposizionatori
• Source-Monitoring Unit Keithley 236
• Source-Monitoring Unit Keithley 237
• LCR meter HP 4284°

Equipment available:

• Optical bench, Newport

• 2 Optical rails, Newport BCX95D

• 2 He-Ne Lasers, 2 mW, model 30988

• He-Ne Laser, 10 mW, model 30993

• Optical Meter, Newport 1918-R

• Silicon photodiode 918D-SL-OD3R

• Germanium photodiode 918D-IR-OD3R

• Optical microscope, Olympus SZ

• Atomic Force Microscope, Thorlabs (mounted on optical bench)

Equipment available:

• 4 DC Power Supplies, Agilent E3610A

• 2 DC Power Supplies, HP E3631A

• Function Generator, Agilent 33250A

• Function Generator, Agilent 33220A

• Bench Multimeter, HP 34401A

• 5 Fluke 115 Multimeters

• LCR Meter, Avo Megger B131

• Oscilloscope, Tektronix TDS 5032 (350 MHz, 5 GS/s, 2 channels)

• Magnet Power Supply, KEPCO BOP 72-6D

• Analytical balance, KERN

Equipment available:

• Hydrodynamic tank

• Image acquisition system

• Image analysis system

• Flow meters

• Laser

Equipment available:

• Vacuum pump, Leybold Trivac

• Vacuum pump, Turbotronik NT10

• Cryo-compressor, Leybold RW2

• Sample cryostat under vacuum with dipole magnet

• Combiva CM31 controller

• LTC 60 temperature controller

• Magnet power supply, EUTRON

• Temperature probe and controller, SI 9700

• Quadrupole magnet

• Dipole magnet, GMW 3472-50

• 3 x Magnet Power Supplies, KEPCO

Building: S. Giuseppe, 3rd floor – Room C34
Capacity: 10 seats
Main research use: Genetic, physiological, and microbiological analysis in plant and animal systems
Field: Biology and Biotechnology

Equipment available:

• MALDI-TOF (Ultraflextreme)

• HPLC-ion trap (LTQ XL)

• HPLC-DAD (1260 Infinity)

• Microplate centrifuge (Megafuge 8R)

• Centrifuge (Fresco21)

• Ultracentrifuge (Sorvall WX80+)

• Homogenizers and overhead stirrers

• Shaking incubator

• CO₂ incubator

• Imaging systems for proteins and nucleic acids (GS900 and ChemiDoc)

• Lyophilizer

• Inverted microscope (Leica DMi1)

• Mineralizer (CEM)

• Water bath

• Oven

• Rocking shaker

• Technical and analytical balance

• pH meter, vortex, heating plate, stirrer

• 2 chemical fume hoods

• Biological safety cabinet

• Deionized water dispenser

• Refrigerator-freezer

• Liquid nitrogen generator

Building: S. Giuseppe, external building
Capacity: 5 seats
Main research use: Small-scale plant experiments
Field: Biology and Biotechnology

Equipment available:

• 3 climate chambers (MLR-352H-PE)

• Oven

• Freezer

Building: S. Giuseppe, external building
Capacity: 5 seats
Main research use: Small-scale plant experiments
Field: Biology and Biotechnology

Equipment available:

• Plant growth chamber

Building: S. Giuseppe, 3rd floor – Room C36
Capacity: 10 seats
Main research use: Growth and manipulation of microorganisms
Field: Biology and Biotechnology

Equipment available:

• Fluorescence stereomicroscope with camera (Leica MZ16FA)

• Stereomicroscopes

• Water bath

• Thermostated incubators

• Biological safety cabinet

• Deionized water dispenser

• Refrigerator-freezer

Building: S. Giuseppe, 3rd floor – Room C37
Capacity: 10 seats
Main research use: Microbiology, molecular biology of microorganisms, environmental DNA extraction
Field: Biology and Biotechnology

Equipment available:

• Microscope (Leica ICC50HD)

• Centrifuge (Fresco21)

• Centrifuge (Megafuge 16R)

• Mini centrifuge

• Incubators

• Oven

• Microwave

• Water bath

• Technical balance

• Thermoblock, pH meter, vortex, heating plate, stirrer

• 2 biological safety cabinets

• Deionized water dispenser

• Refrigerator-freezer

Building: S. Giuseppe, 2nd floor – Rooms C22 & C25
Capacity: 11 and 13 seats
Field: Chemistry

Room C25 (Advanced Chemical Preparations I):

• 2 chemical fume hoods

• 1 walk-in chemical fume hood

• 2 acid/base vented cabinets

• 2 Type 90 vented cabinets

• Ultrapure water system (Maina)

• Sonication bath with thermostat

• Stainless steel autoclaves for synthesis

• Analytical and technical balances (Kern)

• High-vacuum rotary pump

• Membrane vacuum pumps

• Pilot-scale synthesis system

• Magnetic heating stirrers

Room C22 (Advanced Chemical Preparations II):

• 2 chemical fume hoods

• Gas chromatograph GC/MS (Shimadzu)

• Hydrogen generator

• Rotary vacuum pump

• Ultrasonic bath/sonicator, Sineo

• Ball mill machine, PowTeq

• Analytical precision and technical balance

• Membrane vacuum pumps

• Stainless steel autoclaves

Building: S. Giuseppe, 3rd floor – Room C35
Capacity: 10 seats
Main research use: Metabarcoding and genetics in zoology; nucleic acid sequencing
Field: Biology and Biotechnology

Equipment available:

• Sanger Sequencer (SeqStudio)

• PCR and Real-Time PCR

• Fluorometer (Qubit)

• Electrophoresis systems for nucleic acids

• Centrifuge (Fresco21)

• Mini centrifuges

• Microwave

• Technical balance

• Thermoblock, vortex, heating plate, stirrer

• Deionized water dispenser

• Refrigerator-freezer

Building: S. Giuseppe – Roof of Building G

Equipment available:

• Air quality monitoring station (Polludrone, C24 Lab Terrace)

• Weather monitoring station (Lombard & Marozzini, Building G Roof)

• Aethia server for environmental research data processing (server room)