 The Bioprocess Engineering Laboratories are equipped with fully instrumented bioreactors (a 2-liter New Brunswick Bioflo II continuous bioreactor, several 2-liter New Brunswick Multigen bioreactors, and two 1-liter New Brunswick Multigen bioreactors), an automated ion exchange purification system, gel electrophoresis and electroblotting apparatus, laminar flow hood, sugar analyzer, automated particle counters, centrifuges, temperature-controlled incubators and shakers, and personal computers for data acquisition and data analysis. Other ancillary equipment available in the department includes a Hewlett-Packard 1050 High Performance Liquid Chromatography System, gas chromatographs, UV-visible spectrophotomoters, autoclaves, and freeze driers. In addition, arrangements have been made for access to specialized research equipment on the UC Davis campus, including capillary electrophoresis systems, GC-mass spectrometers, PCR systems, DNA synthesizers and DBA sequence analyzer, ELISA plate readers, and an AMX-400 NMR spectrometer. | 
