Facilities & Equipment
The ITFC is well equipped for generating and quantifying a variety of aerosols, gases, and vapors. Properties of exposure atmospheres may be studied in real time as well as in a time-weighted fashion. Since a primary focus of the ITFC is the study of toxicants found in the agricultural environment and related exposure situations, the ITFC is particularly well equipped for studying organic dusts and bioaerosols. However, all gases, vapors, and aerosols of significance to environmental health are appropriate lines of investigation. Research into innovative exposure assessment and toxicant monitoring technology are essential concurrent activities
The ITF is comprised of 6000 square feet of secured space with no thoroughfare as follows:
Facilities:
| Inhalation Tox/Aerosols Lab I |
735 ft2 |
| Inhalation Tox/Aerosols Lab II |
630 ft2 |
| Gravimetrics Lab |
100 ft2 |
| Microscopy Lab |
125 ft2 |
| Analytical Lab |
480 ft2 |
| Histopathology Lab |
170 ft2 |
| PCR Lab |
70 ft2 |
| Bioassay Lab |
125 ft2 |
| Environmental Microbiology Lab |
450 ft2 |
| Large Equipment Room |
200 ft2 |
| Record Storage Room |
160 ft2 |
| Environmental Room I, 4°C |
100 ft2 |
| Environmental Room II |
75 ft2 |
| Environmental Room III |
75 ft2 |
| Suite of 7 offices & 1 meeting room |
1520 ft2 |
| Restroom |
55 ft2 |
Equipment Index:
Aerosol Generation Equipment
Aerosol Sizing and Monitoring Equipment
Bioaerosol Samplers
Other Inhalation Toxicology Equipment
Microscopy Equipment
Microbiology Equipment
Histopathology Equipment
Bioassay Equipment
General Laboratory Equipment
Aerosol Generation Equipment
- One fluidized bed aerosol generator, TSI 3072
- One Wright dust feed generator system
- One Accu-Rate dry material feeder
- One 24 L acoustical dust generator system
- One 1 L acoustical dust generator system
- One constant output atomizer, TSI 3076
- Two 20 mCi 63Ni aerosol charge neutralizers
- One 6000 W Thermolyne high-temp. furnace
- Three Collison 6-jet nebulizers
- One Collison 3-jet nebulizer
- Two Lovelace nebulizers
- Four PITT#1 nebulizers
- Two DeVilbis nebulizers
- Two syringe pumps
Aerosol Sizing and Monitoring Equipment
- One Aerodynamic Particle Sizer, TSI APS 33B
- One TSI aerosol diluter
- One Laser Aerosol Spectrometer, PMS LAS-X
- Two Grimm Mini Aerosol Spectrometers
- Three handheld aerosol monitors, ppm, Inc.
- One electrostatic precipitator, In-Tox
- One Gamma 10 kV power supply
- One MiniRAM with data logger & zero check
- Five cascade impactors (3 Marple 8-stage; 1 Mercer 7-stage;
1 Andersen 8-stage)
- One virtual impactor
- One 2 cyclone aerosol size separator
- One TSI VelociCalc thermal anemometer
- Five cyclone preselectors
Bioaerosol Samplers
- Two Andersen 6-stage jet-to-agar samplers
- Three Andersen 2-stage jet-to-agar samplers
- Two 3-stage May liquid impingers, Burkhard
- Three SKC Biosampler liquid impingers
- Ten AGI-30 liquid impingers
- Two Slit-to-slide spore samplers, Burkhard
- One 12-port sampling manifold
Other Inhalation Toxicology Equipment
- One ozone generator, TEI Model 165
- One NOx analyzer, TEI Model 42
- One NH3 converter, TEI Model 17C
- One NH3 analyzer, TEI Model 17C
- One 0.6 m3 glove box
- One Mixer Mill corundum particle grinder
- One Gilibrator flow calibrator
- Three Aircon high volume air sampler
- Three Staplex high volume samplers
- Two venturi flow meters
- One wet test meter
- One dry gas meter
- Three pressure/vacuum pumps
- Twenty-five personal sampling pumps
- Fifteen micropippetors
- One variable speed rotating platform
- Two thermostatically controlled warming pads
- Twenty rotometers
- Six magnahelics
- Four digital humidity and temperature sensors
- One absolute filter system vacuum, Tornado
- Two bag in/bag out filtration units
Microscopy Equipment
- One epifluorescence/phase contrast microscope, Olympus BX-60
- One digital photomicroscopy, Olympus DP12
- One binocular microscope, Olympus BH-2
- One polarized light microscope, Leitz
- One stereoscope, Olympus
- One dual head fiberoptic illuminator
Microbiology Equipment
- One steam autoclave
- Three 20-50°C incubators
- One 20-70°C incubator
- Two Quebec colony counters
- One dissolved oxygen meter
- One shaking culture bath
Histopathology Equipment
- One cytocentrifuge
- One microtome
- One knife maker
- One automated staining equipment
- One slide warming trays
- One diamond lap
Bioassay Equipment
- One water jacketed CO2 incubator
- One microplate reader, Molecular Devices 384+
- One microplate reader, Molecular Devices 340
- One thermocycler, MJ Research
- Two transilluminator gel boxes
- One BioRad HPLC, uv/vis
- One Shimadzu HPLC, uv/vis, ECD, autosampler
- One Hitachi fluorescence spectrophotometer
- One LKB uv/vis spectrophotometer
- One 4.5 L lyophilizer
- Two BioRad gel electrophoresis cells
- One BioRad electrophoresis power supply
- One Beckman gradient former
General Laboratory Equipment
- Fifteen microcomputers,
- Two laminar flow hoods
- Three fume hoods
- One Nanopure water system
- One refrigerated centrifuge
- One microcentrifuge
- One ultramicrobalance, Mettler MT5
- One analytical balance, Mettler
- Two top loading balance, Mettler PR5002
- One 500 W ultrasonic dismembrator
- One tissue tearor
- Two pH meters
- Two -80°C freezers
- Two -20°C freezers
- Three refrigerators
- One drying oven
- Three water baths
- One dry heat block
- Two peristaltic pumps
- Four heating stir plates
- Three shaker table
- One microwave oven
- One ice machine
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