The University of Houston Biotechnology Program has two academic labs in the Brazos hall building, and nine research labs in the SAB1 building.
- Two teaching labs (Brazos Hall) (#353, #353A and #355) (About 2800 sq. ft.)
- Microbial Products lab (SAB1 building) (#308, #312)
- Microbiome and Genomics lab (SAB1 building) (#350, #352)
- Computation lab (SAB1 building) (#247)
- Environmental BTEC lab (SAB1 building) (#344, #346)
- Food BTEC lab (SAB1 building (#348)
- BTEC Core facility lab (SAB1 building) (#306)
- Common Utility lab (SAB1 building) (#310)
BTEC Core Facility
Purpose:
The main purpose of the core facility is to provide access to state-of-the-art equipment to all research labs, undergraduate and graduate students , and external users.
Equipment:
Some of the equipment include:
- Applied Biosystems ProFlex™ 3x32-Well PCR machine,
- Applied Biosystems QuantStudio™ 7 Flex Real-Time PCR System,
- Dionex™ ICS-5000+ with Electrochemical and UV Detector,
- BioTek ELx405™ Plate Washer,
- Double Beam UV-VIS Spectrophotometer,
- Fermentation System etc.
The instruments used for research include gene expression, chromatography, spectroscopy, genomics and transcriptomics.
These instruments are available to use upon reservation and prior permission is required for external user by filling a form.
Dionex Automatic Solvent Extractor
Eppendorf Bio spectrometer
Applied Biosystem PCR machine
Nanopore Long read Sequencing system
BioTek Microplate washer
Thermo High Performance Anion Exchange Chromatography System
Applied Biosystems qRT-PCR QuantStudio 7
GE Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography
Tecan Spark 10 Microplate reader
Thermo High Performance Liquid Chromatography
Relevant UH Core Facility
About UH Core facility and beneficial to students
The core facility is a centralized shared resources that provide access to instruments, technologies, services funded by UH department research. Several researchers with UH, nearby institutions and industry benefit from this facility. Some of the high-end research instruments in core facility are operated by qualified staff for a nominal cost. This core facility benefit BTEC undergraduate, master’s, Ph.D., and post-doctoral students who carry out independent research work. Students get to run their samples through the high-end machine and the data are used to support their research hypothesis. Students get opportunity to try different experiments, get hands on experience and training opportunities that provide experience for their future careers. Some of the UH core facilities located in the main campus that benefit our BTEC undergraduate and graduate students are listed below.
- Biology and Biochemistry Imaging Core offer undergrad and graduate students access to advanced microscopy instrumentation and to provide training in the use of these instruments.
- Center for Nuclear Receptors and Cell Signaling has state the art instrument to identify Therapeutic Targets for different types of Cancer.
- College of Pharmacy Core labs has advanced technologies and equipment to conduct innovative work in the fields of drug discovery, novel target identification and translational research that will yield the next generation of therapeutics to save lives and improve the quality of life for countless patients.
- Houston Omics Collaborative offer various technologies and expertise in OMICs to the biomedical research community, particularly academic laboratories.
- Mass Spectrometry Laboratory has trapped ion mobility (timsTOF Pro), Thermal Ionization (TIMS) and Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI) mass spectrometers.
- Hewlett Packard Enterprise Data Science Institute (HPE DSI) resources to advance high-performance computing at the University of Houston.
- Chemistry Service Facilities (Electronic, Glass, Machine, NMR, X-Ray) Provides the University research community with affordable access to different facilities.