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Laboratory shared with College of Medicine, Drexel University Lab Contact Information Location: New College Building, Rooms 5407 and 5409 Lab Phone Number: 215.762.8106 Faculty in Charge Name: Peter I. Lelkes Phone 215.895.2219 or 215.762.2071 Email: pilelkes@drexel.edu Lab Overview The laboratories of the Cellular Tissue-Engineering group (Laboratory for Integrated Cellular Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine) headed by Dr. Lelkes is located 5th floor of the Drexel's Center City Campus, on the premises if the College of Medicine (DUCOM), New College Building (NCB) . The three senior group members work at present with a total of 3 postdoctoral research associates, 10 graduate, and 8 undergraduate students. ICTERM facilities, which are shared with faculty from DUCOM Depts. of Surgery and Pathology, comprise two shared wet laboratory spaces and a separate cell culture facility for a total area of ca. 3000 square feet , which includes approx. 500 square feet of office space for faculty and students. (located on the 14th floor of NCB). |
List of Major Equipment
| 3 separate cell culture facility a setups (laminar flow, hoods, CO 2 incubators, centrifuges, etc) , one setup/room specifically reserved for stem cell research |
| Common equipment room (-20 o C, -80 o C freezers, centrifuges,), cryogenic storage facilities |
| 2 smaller rooms for molecular biology (separating working with RNA (isolation) and DNA (PCR) |
| Cytofluor fluorescence microplate reader, Dynal conventional microplate reader, Turner luminometer |
| Perkin Elmer Spectrofluorimeter, spectrophotometer |
| Cryostatic and Regular Microtomes and complete histology equipment, critical point dryer for SEM sample preparation |
| 3 setups for advanced light microscopy (Nikon (FX, Northern Eclipse), Leica DMRX-40RFL, for phase contrast, fluorescence) with integrated advanced image processing/analysis capabilities |
| 3 separate setups for studying mechanical activation / migration of cultured cells exposed to flow/shear, cyclic strain, pressure), Flexcell system |
| 1-D and 2 -D gel electrophoresis, including western blotting, zymography, computer-based 1-D gel analysis |
| Basic and Advanced Molecular Biology (e.g. RT-PCR, EMSA, Promoter Deletion Analysis) |
| Facilities for scaffold fabrication e.g., electrospinning and materials testing (Instron M55) |
| Histology facilities |
| List of Other Available Equipment Real-time qPCR (Queen lane campus) Genomics Facility (Queen lane campus) Flow cytometry ( New College Building ) Additional Information Animal: Fully AAALAC- accredited animal facilities are available institution-wide. These are based on the 14th and 15th floors of the New College Building Office: The offices are fully networked via high-speed internet access and also via wireless Ethernet cards. In addition to desktop and personal computers for all faculty and graduate students, there are six more PC computers available throughout the laboratories for the use of students/staff. Weekly laboratory meetings (jointly with faculty form Surgery and Pathology) provide the opportunity for all students to formally present their data and also discuss pertinent literature. Administrative support is provided through the BIOMED offices. |
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Phone 215.895.2215 | Fax 215.895.4983 | Email biomed@drexel.edu
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