BioFoundry Laboratory

The BioFoundry lab provides shared equipment to facilitate upstream and downstream biomanufacturing as well as analytical equipment. The goal of the BioFoundry is to provide valuable hands-on training to students entering the biotech workforce as well as to provide products and services to the Virginia Tech and wider Virginia Biotech and Research communities.

Laboratory Equipment

• An  Opentrons OT-2 liquid handler with thermocycler, magnetic, and temperature modules
  
• Eppendorf Nexus thermal cyclers
• Eppendorf Thermomixers
• ThermoFisher tabletop centrifuge
• ThermoFisher microcentrifuge
• ThermoFisher Shaker/static incubators
• New Brunswick BioFlo 3000 bioreactor
• Biotek UV/Vis Spectrophotometer
• NanoDrop Spectrophotometer
• Mechanical cell disrupter
• GE Akta FPLC
• Shimadzu GCMS
• ThermoFisher LCMS
• Shimadzu HPLC
• Biosafety cabinet
• Chemical fume hood

Principal Investigator