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The Department of Oral Immunology & Infectious Diseases is a fully functional up-to-date department with multiple technology cores that enable efficient research productivity.

Department of Oral Immunology & Infectious Diseases - Core facilities

General Infrastructure 

  • Three autoclaves
  • Two MilliQ water stations
  • FreeZone Triad lyophilizer
  • Five Sorval high speed refrigerated centrifuges
  • Sorvall WX80 ultracentrifuge
  • Dry ice station
  • Low temperature storage with ten -80 freezers

Microbiology and Molecular Biology 

  • Four Coy anaerobic chambers
  • Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer
  • Two Nanodrop 2000 spectrophotometers
  • QuBit4 Fluorometer
  • Three ABI real time PCR thermocyclers
  • Eppendorf Excella E25R incubating/refrigerated shaker
  • Lonza 57025 Flashgel Dock and camera
  • Bioflux 200 biofilm apparatus
  • MP FastPrep-24 5G Homogenizer
  • CLC Genomics Workbench v. 7.2 for bioinformatics

Tissue Culture and Cell Biology 

  • Tissue culture facilities with six laminar flow hoods, four CO2 incubators, three inverted microscopes, and four liquid nitrogen storage containers
  • BD Celesta flow cytometer with 488 nm (blue), 405 nm (violet) and 640 nm (red) lasers, DIVA acquisition and FlowJo software
  • FACS Calibur flow cytometer with a High Throughput Sampler system
  • Lonza 4D-Nucleofector transfection system
  • Gentle MACS Octo Dissociator (with heaters)
  • Flow cytometry based multi-plexed bead based arrays

Imaging and Multiplex Label Detection 

  • Leica SP8 Confocal microscope with solid state lasers 405, 488, 552, 638 nm and with Volocity and Imaris imaging software
  • Bruker Skyscan 1275 X-ray microtomography
  • Zeiss Axio ObserverZ.1 fluorescent microscope
  • Luminex 100
  • Molecular Devices SpectraMax iD5
  • Molecular Devices SpectraMax L
  • Perkin Elmer Victor X3
  • Leica CM 1860 cryostat
  • GE LAS4100 imaging system
  • Two Bio-Rad XRS+ gel-doc systems
  • Thermoshandon Histocentre 2 Paraffin embedding station
  • Reichert-Jung 2030 Microtome

Biochemistry 

  • Monolith NT.115 MicroScale Thermophoresis system to quantify binding
  • Nanotemper Tycho NT.6 for protein quality measurement
  • Two ACTApurifier UPC10 chromatography systems with columns for ion-exchange, molecular mass exclusion and hydrophobic interactions
  • Forte BioScience Blitz BioLayer Interferometry system
  • Periotron 8000
  • GE Ettan 2D electrophoresis system
  • Perkin Elmer Spectrum One FT-IR spectrometer
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Demuth granted patent for development and testing of antibiofilm compounds

Demuth granted patent for development and testing of antibiofilm compounds

12/11/25
Department of Oral Immunology & Infectious Diseases
A new R01 to study "Elucidation of the Structure and Function of Lipopolysaccharides in Periodontal Pathogens and their Contribution to Disease Progression in Periodontitis"

A new R01 to study "Elucidation of the Structure and Function of Lipopolysaccharides in Periodontal Pathogens and their Contribution to Disease Progression in Periodontitis"

08/28/24
Department of Oral Immunology & Infectious Diseases