The SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute at SIU Molecular Core Facility provides various types of services.The facility is also equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation as listed below. The equipment is accessible to all cancer researchers at SIU-SM.

• Affymetrix microarray system
• Manual Tissue Arrayer 2 (Chemicon)
• GenePix® Personal 4100A Microarray Scanner (Axon)
• SpotBot Personal Microarrayer (TeleChem)
• Alpha Innotech FlorChem 5500
• Olympus BX41 microscope with digital imaging system,
• Olympus IX71 inverted fluorescence microscope with digital camera
• Cryostat (Thermo)
• Microtome and floating water bath (Thermo)
• Applied Biosystems 7500 Real Time PCR System,
• Bio-Rad 2-D gel systems
• Savant Integrated SpeedVac
• Agilent Bioanalyser
• LN2 storage (MCR Cryogenics XLC 1200)

In addition, we have recently purchased following shared equipment available to all cancer researchers at SIU-SM.

• Fuji LAS 3000 Luminescent Image Analyzer® for Western blotting, Southern blotting and Northern blotting.  The LAS-3000 imaging system is equipped with both the Pro and Lite Image Reader® Software package for data capture and analysis. 
•  Li-Cor’s Odyssey® Infrared Imaging System equipped with the Odyssey Software package for data acquisition and analysis which includes band sizing and sample quantification. 
• Konica SRX-201A Film Processor. 
• Biorad Gene Pulser Xcell® total system. 
• Beckman Coulter Vi-CELL™ Cell Viability Analyzer and Counter
• Shimadzu HPLC system with IN/US B-Ram Model 2B Flow-through Radio-Isotope Beta Gamma Detector. 
• 96-well Fluorometer with one dispenser for use in reporter gene assays, immunoassays, hybridization assays, DNA quantitation, cell adhesion, and quantitation of PCR products. 
• 96-well Luminometer with one dispenser for reporter gene assays, such as luciferase and galactosidase; luminescent immunoassays; ATP-based assays and DNA hybridization assays.
• 96-well Spectrophotometer with a cuvette holder for the ability to read from visible to UV wavelengths.

SIU School of Medicine Core Facilities