BSL-3 Containment Facility

Summary:

A 2000 square foot BSL-3 facility located at the University of Hawaii, JABSOM.

Affiliations:

• John A. Burns School of Medicine
• Leahi Hospital

People:

• PI: Nerurkar, Vivek, Ph.D.
  

Member: Meeks, Janet

Resources:

Instruments

• Baker biological safety cabinet ( Biological safety cabinet )
  

  Lab contains two of these instruments. Instrument's location: ABSL-3.

• Benchtop centrifuge with rotor ( Centrifuge )
  

  Instruments' location: JABSOM.

• Benchtop centrifuge with rotor ( Centrifuge )
  

  Instrument's location: ABSL-3.

• Class II Type A/B 3 biosafety cabinet vertical laminar flow ( Biological safety cabinet )
  

  Located at Leahi Hospital.

• Eppendorf AG centrifuge ( Refrigerated centrifuge )
  

  Instrument's location: BSL-3.

• Eppendorf AG mini-centrifuge ( Centrifuge )
  

  Instrument's location: BSL-3.

• Invitrogen Countess cell counter ( Automatic cytometer )
  

• ISOcage Micro-Isolator caging system ( Animal cage )
  

  Lab contains three of these instruments. Instruments' location: ABSL-3.

• Leica clinical cryostat ( Cryostat )
  

• Luminex microplate reader ( Microplate reader )
  

• NuAire biosafety cabinet ( Biological safety cabinet )
  

  Instrument's location: BSL-3

• Olympus fluorescence microcope ( Fluorescence microscope )
  

• Olympus inverted microscope ( Inverted microscope )
  

• Olympus microscope ( Inverted microscope )
  

  Live cell imaging capabilities. This instrument was purchased by Dr. Tung Hoang and belongs to him. It is currently located in the BSL-3 Containment Facility for usage.

• Perkin Elmer Victor L microplate reader ( Microplate reader )
  

• Refrigerated benchtop centrifuge with accessory ( Centrifuge )
  

  Leahi Hospital.

• Thermo Forma incubator ( Incubator )
  

  Lab contains seven of these instruments.

• Tuttnauer Double door interlock pass-through autoclave ( Autoclave )
  

  Lab contains two of these instruments.

Services

• Virus isolation and identification service ( Material analysis service )
  

Web Links:

• http://jabsom.hawaii.edu/JABSOM/