Cores Instrumentation Page – UCLA CORES

Instrumentation

Database courtesy of the UCLA-DOE Bioinformatics and Computational Core Technology Center
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Advanced Light Microscopy/ Spectroscopy [14]	Behavioral Testing Core [3]	Bio-NMR Core Technology Center [3]	BRI Electron Microscopy Core [3]	BRI Microscopic Techniques Core [4]
BSCRC Flow Cytometry Core [1]	BSCRC-MCDB Microscopy Core [1]	Cellular Bioenergetics Core [1]	CNSI Advanced Light MicroscopySpectroscopy [10]	Crump Institute [9]
Crump Institute Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Technology Center [2]	Crump Institutes Preclinical Imaging Technology Center [2]	Electron Imaging Center for NanoMachines [19]	Human Performance Laboratory [6]	Immune Assessment Core [5]
ImmunoBioSpot and Cytometrics Core [3]	MIC Magnetic Resonance Facility [7]	MIC Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility	MIC Materials Characterization Laboratory [17]	Mouse Physiology Core [6]
Nano and Pico Characterization Laboratory [18]	Pasarow Mass Spectrometry Laboratory [6]	Protein Expression Technology Center [10]	The Gene and Cell Therapy Core [1]	Translational Pathology Core Laboratory [2]
UCLA Clinical Microarray Core [3]	UCLA Flow Cytometry Core [4]	UCLA ICP-MS Facility [1]	X-ray Crystallography Condition Screening [3]	X-ray Crystallography Technology Center (Macromolecular) [3]
X-Ray Diffraction Laboratory (Small Molecule) [4]

MIC Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility [10]

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Instrument	Location	Contact	Notes
Q-Exactive hybrid quadrupole-Orbitrap [More information]	Molecular Sciences Building, Room 1434	Jane Strouse strousej@chem.ucla 825-9841	Nano-flow and capillary flow HPLC’s are interfaced for rapid switch-over; electrospray ionization; Peptide/protein qualitative and quantitative analysis; intact protein characterization; lipidomics, metabolomics, proteomics
Ultraflex MALDI TOF/TOF [More information]	Molecular Sciences Building, Room 1434	Jane Strouse strousej@chem.ucla 825-9841	Matrix assisted laser desorption ionization; time-of-flight MS/MS; small molecules; synthetic compounds; peptides; proteins; oligosaccharides; and many others
LCT Premier [More information]	Molecular Sciences Building, Room 1434	Jane Strouse strousej@chem.ucla 825-9841	Electrospray ionization – Interfaced to a UPLC for fast chromatographic separations. Can be run without LC separation for even faster analysis. Small molecules; synthetic compounds; peptides; proteins; oligosaccharides; and many others
LTQ-Orbitrap [More information]	Molecular Sciences Building, Room 1434	Jane Strouse strousej@chem.ucla 825-9841	Electrospray ionization; nano-flow HPLC is interfaced; peptide/protein analysis; intact protein analysis by direct infusion with very small volume of sample (10 microliters)
4000 Q-Trap triple quadrupole [More information]	Molecular Sciences Building, Room 1434	Jane Strouse strousej@chem.ucla 825-9841	Triple quadrupole mass spectrometer with HPLC interfaced; excellent for quantitation
6890-5975 GC-MS [More information]	Molecular Sciences Building, Room 1434	Jane Strouse strousej@chem.ucla 825-9841	Gas chromatograph interfaced to a quadrupole mass spectrometer. Used for small molecules, metabolites, synthetic compounds, and other relatively volatile compounds.
1- and 2-D electrophoresis Cells [More information]	Molecular Sciences Building, Room 1424	Jane Strouse strousej@chem.ucla 825-9841	Several 1- and 2-dimensional gel separation systems; staining and imaging equipment
Helium leak detector [More information]	Molecular Sciences Building, Room 1416	Jane Strouse strousej@chem.ucla 825-9841	Somewhat portable helium leak detector
DART Exactive [More information]	Molecular Sciences Building, Room 1434	Jane Strouse strousej@chem.ucla.edu 825-9841	Very easy sample preparation and very fast for exact mass characterization. Small molecules; synthetic compounds; general not good for peptides, sulfates & nitrates