Download Instrument/Equipment name: CT3 Texture Analyzer Instrument use:

Instrument/Equipment name:
CT3 Texture Analyzer
Instrument use:
A compression and tensile testing unit
provides a number of physical properties
that have proven to be highly correlated
to human sensory evaluation of food and
other consumer products.
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
Vernitron Reciprocal Water Bath Shaker
Instrument use:
Ideal for studies requiring reciprocal
shaking under controlled temperature
conditions.
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
Beckman HPLC with refractive index
detector
Instrument use:
Quantification of various food
components such as phytochemical and
macronutrients
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
Hitachi Amino Acid Analyzer L-8900
Instrument use:
A Fully Automatic unit capable of
analyzing /separating physiological fluids
and protein hydrolysates
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
Thermo Scientific IEC CL40R
Refrigerated Benchtop Centrifuge
Instrument use:
Refrigerated bench top centrifuge offers
amazing throughput for the safe and
efficient separation of high-volume
clinical samples and also for microplate
applications.
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
Food Technology Corporation (FTC)
texture analyzer
Instrument use:
A high-performance automated food
texture analyzer. This calibrated texture
tester is operated by a software using
fundamental algorithms and removes all
elements of subjectivity from the testing
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
Vacuum-controlled Buchi Rotavapor
Rotary Evaporator & Multivapor P-12
Instrument use:
Efficient and gentle removal of solvents
from samples by evaporation
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
VirTis Genesis freeze dryer
Instrument use:
A versatile freeze dryer that can meet
any lyophilization requirements such as
for pilot, research or small scale
applications
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
Buchi Mini Spray Dryer
Instrument use:
The Buchi spray dyer is for the quick,
gentle and safe drying to powder of
liquid end products – i.e. the
lyophilization or the micro-encapsulation
of highly effective food components
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
Microm HM 325 Microtome
Instrument use:
Designed to facilitate frozen, paraffin
sectioning and manual hard sectioning of
samples in biology, medicine and
industry
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
-80° C Freezer
Instrument use:
Maintains samples at -80° C
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS
Instrument/Equipment name:
Electron Microscopy Sciences coating
system
Instrument use:
This unit is used for coating and
sputtering of a wide range of nonoxidizing (noble) metals, such as gold
(Au), platinum (Pt), silver (Ag) and
palladium (Pd), a carbon coater ideal for
SEM, EDS and WDS applications
Contact information and instrument
location:
Dr. Martha Verghese, Dr. Josh Herring
Instrumentation Lab Room 122 CCS