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)
- 3 nodes OSCAR pilot cluster (Pentinum IV at 2.2Ghz)
- 8 nodes OSCAR cluster (Pentinum IV at 2.4Ghz)
- 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
