Affiliated Research Programs
Confocal Microscopy Center
CMMB has a Perkin-Elmer Ultraview ERS FRET confocal microscope on a Zeiss platform. It utilizes spinning disk technology producing a 6-line confocal image.
This microscope can be used at the following rates:
Unassisted 50.00*
Assisted/or with instruction 70.00*
*Non-educational organization charges are 125.00/145.00 respectively
DNA Sequencing Facility
The CMMB DNA Sequencing facility features a Beckman CEQ8000 Genetic Analyzer capable of DNA sequencing and fragment analysis. It is located in BSF 260. See here for more details.
USF Herbarium
The USF Herbarium was established as a research and teaching collection in 1958, two years after the founding of the University of South Florida. It is located in rooms 170-179 of the Life Sciences Building (LIF), on the Tampa Campus of the University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida. The USF Herbarium, with more than 250,000 specimens, is the second largest collection in Florida, the seventh largest in the southeastern United States, and ranks in the upper third of the world's herbaria in size. See here for more details.