Research Instrumentation
Collections
- WWU insect collection
- Pacific northwest herbarium
- WWU vertebrate collection
Major Facilities
- Greenhouse
- Cell culture facility
- Microscopy and image analysis facility
- Shannon Point marine science center
Field Equipment
- GPS tracking devices
- Echosounders
- Night vision goggles and binoculars
- Camping equipment 20 foot boat with 75 HP outboard engine and trailer
Model Organisms
- Plants (Arabidopsis thaliana)
- Fruit flies (Drosophila melanogaster)
- Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)
- Flatworms (Caenorhabditis elegans)
- Protists (Tetrahymena thermophile)
- Parasitic wasp (Nasonia)
- Black cottonwood (Populus trichocarpa )
- Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii)
- Mouse and human cell culture
Cell and Molecular Equipment
- ~20 PCR machines
- Biolistic apparatus for transformation (gene gun)
- Balances
- Centrifuges
- Incubators
- Needle puller and microinjection setup for cellular injections
- Tissue grinder
- Li-cor Odyssey Gel and Blot Imaging Station
Computing and Software Resources
- Bioinformatics server:
- CPU: 2x Intel Xeon Gold 6130 (64 virtual cores)
- RAM: 768GB
- Dish Space: 12Tb RAID6
- OS: Ubuntu 18.04
- R (statistical package)
- ImageJ (image analysis)
- Imaris (3D rendering)
Macro and micro photography equipment
- BK Plus macrophotography imaging system
- Nikon Eclipse Ti2 microscope with Photometrics Prime95b high speed camera
- Noldus Ethovision – automated behavioral tracking and analysis software with a high resolution camera (STF)
Institutional resources