The CEB was established in 1986 by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and a $1 million equipment grant from the United States Department of Education to provide multidisciplinary graduate and undergraduate training for the next generation of scientists and engineers engaged in applying biotechnology toward solving environmental problems. We maintain core research affiliations that extend throughout the Colleges of Engineering, Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Agriculture, the Health Sciences Center, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
As a user facility, CEB personnel are dedicated to providing service and training to the UT research community. We provide access to a large inventory of basic equipment essential to successful research, including centrifuges, incubators, ovens, fume hoods, biosafety cabinets, autoclaves, microscopes, distilled and reverse osmosis water supplies, ice, pH meters, -80°C storage, liquid nitrogen storage, spectrophotometers, and PCR thermal cyclers. Specialized equipment that supports our bioimaging, high-throughput DNA sequencing, and zebrafish facilities is also available for your use. Please contact us for equipment availability and training information.
Basic Supplies and Needs
- Ice
- Dry ice
- Liquid nitrogen
- Dewars to transport liquid nitrogen
- Distilled/deionized water
- Autoclave access
- Cold temperature (-80°C and liquid nitrogen) short-term storage
- Lyophilization
- Shaking incubators, floor-standing, capable of accommodating nearly any size flask
- Biosafety Level 1 (BSL1) and Level 2 (BSL2) laboratory space
- Biosafety cabinet access
- Fume hood access
CEB Equipment Inventory
- Alpha Innotek Gel Documentation System
- Beckman Coulter Z1 Culture Counter with Accucomp Software
- Beckman DU 640B Spectrophotometer
- BioRad C1000 Thermal Cycler
- Bio-Rad CFX Connect Quantitative PCR System
- BioTek Synergy2 Multilabel Reader with Microplate Stacker
- BTX Electroporator
- Bulldog Bio PCR Thermal Cycler
- Coy Anaerobic Chamber
- Drying oven DX-31
- Eppendorf epMotion 5075
- EVOS M5000 microscope imaging system
- Field Portable Incubator
- Fisher Isotemp Rotisserie Incubator
- Hewlett Packard 5890 Gas Chromatograph with ECD and FID
- Hewlett Packard 5973 Mass Spectrometer with HP 6890 Gas Chromatograph
- Illumina MiSeq
- Labconco Freezone Lyophilizer
- Labline Fermentors
- Life Technologies’ Neon Transfection System
- MARS (Microwave Accelerated Reaction System)
- Microtome
- Microtox Assay System
- MinION DNA/RNA sequencing system
- MJ Research PTC-2000 Peltier Thermal Cycler
- MP Biomedicals FastPrep 24
- Muffle Furnace, Thermolyne Type 6000
- Nanodrop 1000
- Nanodrop 3300
- New Brunswick Fermentor Controller with 3L Vessel
- Nikon Eclipse TE300 fluorescent microscope with a 1.4 MP Peltier cooled CCD camera
- PerkinElmer IVIS Lumina II w/XGI-8 Anesthesia System
- PerkinElmer IVIS Lumina K w/XGI-8 Anesthesia System
- PerkinElmer Victor 2 Multilabel Reader
- PerkinElmer Victor 3 Multilabel Reader
- Purifier Class II Biosafety Cabinets
- Qiagen Tissuelyzer II
- Reichert-Jung 2800 Frigocut Cryostat
- Scepter 2.0 Handheld Automated Cell Counter
- Shimadzu GC(TCD): Model GC-8A Packard Gas Proportional Counter
- Shimadzu TOC – LCSH carbon analyzer
- Spectrolinker UV Crosslinker
- Sutter Vertical Micropipette Puller
- Thermo Scientific Sorvall Legend XTR Refrigerated Centrifuge
- Tritech Research Microinjector
- Zeiss Microscope with Epi-fluorescence Attachment
- Zylux FB14 Luminometer
Equipment Maintenance, Repair, and Fabrication
Glass Shop in the Department of Chemistry