Facilities

ESC Lab

The ESC lab is located in Louise Freer Hall adjacent to campus core facilities.  The lab consists of a complete cell and molecular biology space (630ft2) and shared access to a ~200ft2 core lab with an -80oC freezer.  Equipment within the ESC lab includes; an Attune bench top flow cytometer, Evos light and fluorescent microscopes, western blot equipment, a PCR thermal cycler, a cryostat, a fridge and freezer, a Milli-Q nanopure water system, a bench top centrifuge, a microcentrifuge, and a full cell culture suite including a CO2 incubator, laminar flow hood, and a tissue culture microscope.  As a member of the T.K. Cureton Physical Fitness Research Group, the ESC lab also has access to a dedicated clinical exercise intervention center, food preparation room and biopsy/blood collection space, and access to an autoclave, analytical balances, and a gel documentation system for fluorescent and luminescent analysis of western blots.

 

Freer Hall

The Clinical Exercise Intervention Center within Freer Hall contains dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) scanner, an isokinetic dynamometer and equipment for performing resistance and endurance exercise trials.

 

Core Facilities

Core facilities housed on the University of Illinois campus provide access to technical expertise and equipment for cell sorting, automated imaging, functional genomicsnext generation sequencing, and bioinformatics.