Experimental Facilities

• One custom-built surface plasmon resonance (SPR) imaging system
• Two four-channel custom-built SPR biosensors    
• One eight-channel custom-built SPR biosensor
• NanoScope multimode scanning probe microscope (AFM/FFM/STM) from Vecco
• WATERS Alliance HPLC/GPC system
• Nikon TE2000U Inverted Microscope
• Nikon 80i Upright Microscope
• Auto 306 thermal evaporator from BOC Edward
• Facility for organic/polymer synthesis          
• Facility for cell culture & bacterial adhesion/biofilm formation studies
• Facility for class I and II agents (bacteria and toxins) and plasma/blood
• Access to animal study facility, FTIR, and microscopy/imaging analysis at UWEB
• Access to surface analysis instrumentation (ToF-SIMS and XPS) at NESAC/BIO
• Access to SEM, EBL, and confocal microscope at the UW Center for Nanotechnology  
• Access to microfabrication facility at WTC

 Computational Facilities

• 20 nodes OSCAR cluster (Pentium Dual Core at 2.8GHz in each node) 
• 5 node OSCAR cluster (TWO Quad-core processors at 2.0GHz in each node)
• 4 SGI IRIX6.3 machines
• CHARMM 32b2 (script) for simulations of biomolecules 
• CHARMM (GUI)) in INSIGHT II for simulations of biomolecules
• CERIUSII 4.2 (GUI) for simulations of materials
• POLYGRAF (GUI) for simulations of materials
• COMPASS (GUI) in INSIGHT II for simulation of materials
• JAGUAR (GUI) for ab initio quantum mechanics/force field development 
• CASTEP (GUI) in INSIGHT II for density functional theory
• In-house developed BIO_SURF for simulations of biomolecular-material interfaces.
  Other in-house developed simulation software (GCMC, dual-control volume
  GCMD, Gibbs, and MD).

Group Library

Books