Research Facilities

The Department of Microbiology, Molecular Genetics, and Immunology occupies approximately 20,000 square feet of lab and office space on four floors of the University of Kansas Medical Center basic science complex in the Orr Major, Wahl East and West as well as Hixon buildings (campus map). The Department houses a number of research core facilities. These include the X-Ray Crystallography Core, the Protein Expression and Purification Core and facilities for measuring cytokine arrays.

In addition, the Medical Center and the research centers of the institution have a range of core facilities available to the faculty on a fee-for-service basis.

• Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory
  BD FACSAria and LSR II flow cytometers for analysis and cell sorting
• Laboratory Animal Resources
  Animal care and support for research involving a variety of laboratory animal species
• Biotechnology Support Facility
  Peptide and oligonucleotide sequencing, synthesis and analysis and gene microarray analysis.
• Electron Microscopy Facility
• Confocal Imaging Facility
  Laser confocal microscopy
• Gene Targeting and Transgenics Facility
  Transgenic and knockout mouse model development
• Histology Imaging Analysis Core
  Digital acquisition, analysis, and printing of images obtained from biological specimens
• Hypoxia Core Laboratory
• Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory
  Focusing on studies with virulent strains of Francisella tularensis
• Bioinformatics Core Laboratory
  Microarray data analysis

Additional core research facilities are available in the Center for Reproductive Sciences and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The latter includes biotechnology instrumentation, such as mass spectrometry.