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The molecular biopsychology laboratory is comprised of 8 different
rooms totaling 643 square feet. The laboratory has 3 behavioral testing
rooms and one dedicated to electrophysiological recording. Furthermore,
the laboratory is equipped with a hood, lab benches and a sink. Drs.
Mittleman and Matthews share a fully equipped surgery room and a histology
room. Graduate students working in the laboratory share an office (rm
444) that is located next to the laboratory and each student is furnished
with a desk top computer.
The molecular biopsychology laboratory includes the following pieces
of equipment: Several mazes (both radial arm and water), a Sorvall RC-3B
refrigerated superspeed centrifuge, Narishige multi-barrel micropipette
puller, DATAWAVE Experimenter¹s Workbench, Discovery and Common Processing
software packages, Fintronics amplifier and window discriminator system,
Fintronics 4-channel iontophoresis system, Tektronics analog oscilloscope,
copper wire Faraday cage, Kopf stereotaxic equipment, Trent Systems
hydrolytic microdrive, table saw and drill press, -70° C ultracold
freezer, -20° C freezer (shared equipment), 4° C refrigerator,
Barnstead/Thermolydne spectrophotometer, rocker, waterbath, stir plate
and vortex, pipetters, glassware, Mettler balance, Harvard apparatus
syringe infusion pump, Olympus Optical bi-ocular microscope, Accumet
pH meter, Sensortex freezing microtome and a new cryostat, over $125,000
in mouse phenotyping equipment and in vivo awake freely behaving unit recording
chamber and an ELISHA station.
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