Todd Schuster operates, maintains, and instructs scientists about the shared instruments used at The Hormel Institute for research on cancer and other diseases.
Shared instruments and equipment currently include:
- Becton Dickinson FACS Aria II cell sorter
- FACSCalibur flow cytometer
- ABSCIEX 5600 Triple TOF mass spectrometer and Eksigent NanoLC nano HPLC system
- Rigaku X-Ray diffraction system for protein crystallography, confocal and fluorescent microscopes, real-time PCR, spectrophotometers, tissue processor and microtome, cryostat, and high speed and ultracentrifuges.
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