Facilities
The School has a superb range of specialised facilities available to staff, postgraduate and honours students.
X-Ray facilities
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X-Ray Diffraction: The X-ray diffraction facilities are comprised of a rotating-anode generator with two Marreseach Desk-Top-Beamlines with Mar 345 imaging plates, Osmic optics and Oxford Cryosystems crystal cooling devices. They allow us to collect X-ray diffraction data and determine atomic resolution macromolecular structures in-house. |
![]() Mosquito Positive Displacement Robot: The Mosquito Positive Displacement Robot, which accurately pipettes small (sub microlitre) volumes, enables researchers to set up in 10 minutes what would have ordinarily taken one day to complete. |
Spectrometers
![]() NMR Spectrometry: The School houses three high-field Bruker NMR spectrometers, an AvanceIII-400 widebore, an AvanceIII-600 and an AvanceIII-800. The 400 is equipped with a variety of probeheads, including units for small animal imaging and high-power diffusion measurements. The 600- and 800-MHz instruments are equipped with cryogenically cooled probes that are optimized for the collection of structural and dynamics data on proteins and protein complexes. More |
![]() Atomic Absorption Spectrometer: Used to measure trace elements. |
![]() Proteomics: The School hosts part of the Mass Spectometry Core Facility (MSCF), for state-of-the-art analysis of biomolecules such as proteins, peptides and metabolites. MSCF has a range of mass spectrometers and is mainly located in The Hub (Building D17). Contact for further information. More |
![]() Circular Dichroism Spectropolarimetry: A new Jasco 815 circular dichroism spectropolarimeter is used for investigating protein (and other macromolecular) conformation and conformational changes. The spectropolarimeter is equipped with a variable temperature unit for temperature control. Contact for further information. |
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Chromatography
![]() Gas Chromatography: Fatty acids are separated and percentages in food and biological samples are determined on a Gas Chromatograph. |
![]() HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography): Sugars in biological and food samples are separated and quantitated by Dyonex HPLC. |
![]() HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography): Vitamins, sugars and amino acids in samples are determined by High Performance Chromatography. |
![]() HPLC (High Performance Liquid Chromatography): High precision pumps, facilitate protein purification by allowing researchers to pass protein solutions over a variety of columns containing different chemical surfaces. |
Biosafety
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![]() PC2 Lab: PC2 (shown above) and PC3 laboratories are contained facilities for risk management and handling of pathogens and molecular manipulations. |
Nutrition
![]() Teaching & Research Kitchen: Glycemic Index studies are conducted in the teaching and research kitchen in the University of Sydney's Teachers College. |
![]() Teaching & Research Kitchen: Volunteers participate in trials held in the teaching and research kitchens. |
![]() Teaching Kitchen: GI studies conducted in our teaching kitchen. |
![]() Autoanalyser: Hitachi autoanalyser is used to determine the concentration of various metabolites in samples. |
![]() Bomb Calorimeter: Total energy in foods is determined by igniting samples under oxygen in a ballistic bomb. |
General
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