The MCC Mobile Lab provides equipment to area high school instructors seeking to add biotechnology curriculum to their classroom. Qualified instructors may check out the following equipment:

4 mini centrifuges

1 MyCycler thermal cycler

1 water bath

1 rocking platform

1 incubation oven

1 microcentrifuge

1 UV transilluminator

1 Transblotter

2 Polyacrylamide pouring plates

1 BR-2000 vortexer

2 PowerPac Basic power supplies

4 Mini-Sub cell GT electrophoresis chambers with 7 x 10 cm trays, 8 combs, 8-well

4 Mini-PROTEAN 3 electrophoresis chambers, runs two gels per chamber

4 gel loading guides, 10-well

8 UV lamps

9 adjustable-volume micropipets, 2–20 µl

9 adjustable-volume micropipets, 20–200 µl

1 adjustable-volume micropipet, 100–1,000 µl

10 racks pipet tips (2–20 µl and 20–200 µl), 200 tips/rack

10 racks pipet tips (100–1,000 µl), 100 tips/rack

5 racks Prot/Elec pipet tips (1–200 µl), 200 tips/rack

1 package agarose gel support film, 50 sheets

1 Reagents to support lab activities as needed

Contact the MCC Biotechnology Program Director for information how to check out equipment in the Mobile Lab.

Modules

Transposon Mutagenesis Module

Environmental Bacteria Identification Module

Cloning of Agrobacteriem Genes Module