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Instruments in the BICF

Core Facilities of the London Regional Proteomics Centre

  • Functional Proteomics Facility
  • Biomolecular NMR Facility
  • Macromolecular Crystallography Facility
  • Peptide Synthesis Facility
  • Biological Mass Spectrometry Laboratory
  • MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facility

Links to other Schulich Core Facilities


Facility Details

Instrumentation

The Biomolecular Interactions and Conformations Core Facility houses the following instruments to aid in protein characterization:

  • Beckman XL-A Analytical Ultracentrifuge
  • Fluorolog-3 spectrofluorometer
  • Jasco J-810 circular dichroism spectropolarimeter
  • MicroCal VP-DSC differential scanning calorimeter
  • MicroCal VP-ITC isothermal titration calorimeter
  • PicoQuant FluoTime 200 fluorescence lifetime spectrometer
  • BioLogics SFM-400 stopped-flow system
  • Biacore X system
  • DynaPro dynamic light scattering apparatus
  • HPLC systems (Breeze and Alliance)

Accessibility

There are two ways that clients can make use of our core facility:

1) Researchers, post-doctoral fellows or students may conduct their own experiments after completing the appropriate training on the instrument of interest, or

2) The facility manager may conduct experiments on a fee-for-service basis.

University identification cards for staff, faculty and students can be programmed for individual access to Room 394 for frequent users. To arrange this, please call or send us an email if you are interested in having access to our facility.

New User?

Please do not hesitate to contact us! We will be happy to meet with you to discuss your planned experiments, sample preparation and address any concerns.


 

 

 

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Welcome to the BICF

The Biomolecular Interactions and Conformations Facility (BICF) is an instrumentation center within the University of Western Ontario's Department of Biochemistry in the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. We provide access to state-of-the-art equipment and high quality services to researchers both on campus and beyond, tailoring experiments to meet each client's own research objectives.

Our instruments allow for the efficient collection of biophysical data on proteins, peptides and nucleic acids.

We are one of the 6 constituent core facilities of the London Regional Proteomics Centre, and are conveniently located in Room 394 of the Medical Sciences building on the UWO campus.

Funding

Grants


Established with support of the Canada Foundation for Innovation

and the Ontario Innovation Trust

Maintenance is supported by the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry.

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Updated August 31, 2009 by L. Briere