Campus and Department Core Facilities

LABORATORY OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION

The LBSF, a component of the VPR Core Facilities, consists of
(1) the X-ray Crystallography laboratories,
(2) the Protein Expression and Purification Facility and
(3) the Modeling Core.

Director: Blaine Mooers, PhD
Staff Scientist: Simon Terzyan, PhD
Modeler: Tim Mather, PhD

Location: BRC 472 

The Physical Biochemistry Core Facility

The Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology has the following biophysical instruments available for use by investigators at OUHSC, OU, and at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation:

(1) Jasco 715 Circular Dichroism (CD) Spectropolarimeter
(2) Microcal VP Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
(3) Microcal VP Isothermal Titration Calorimeter (ITC)
(4) NT.115 Microscale Thermophoresis (MST) Instrument
(5) Wyatt DAWN HELEOS II Multi-Angle Laser Light Scattering (MALS) Instrument

Director: Karla Rodgers
Research Associate: Jennifer Byrum
Location: BMSB 824

Additional Information on Core Facility Equipment

Core Facility User Fees (Updated 7/29/2018)

Microcal VP ITC

Fluorescence Measurements Core Facility

The Department has two major systems for fluorescence experiments
(1) SLM-8100 photon-counting spectrofluorometer
(2) ISS Chronos Lifetime Spectrometer

Director: Jialing Lin
Location: BMSB 935

Mass Spectrometry

As a supplement to the VPR Mass Spectrometry facility, the Department has an Advantage LCQ  quadrupole ion-trap electrospray MS instrument that is available for samples that do not need the latest technology.

Director: Jay Hanas
Location: BMSB 939