Molecular Core Facility

The SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute at SIU Molecular Core Facility provides various types of services, including tumor tissue microarray and Affymetrix microarray analysis. 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 systems
Savant Integrated SpeedVac
Dry ice maker
Agilent Bioanalyser
LN2 storage (MCR Cryogenics XLC 1200)

SIU School of Medicine Core Facilities