RESEARCH FACILITIES
Agricultural
& Biological Engineering Computing Facilities
- capabilities include GIS, CAE, mathematical modeling ad simulation
development
Agronomy
Center for Research and Education (ACRE)
- 991 acre farm facility appropriate for plant breeding and genetics,
crop production and soil tillage management, plant physiology, soil
fertility, weed control, disease and insect resistance and control,
and crop variety performance evaluation . Includes the Crop Protect
Lab for fertilizer and ag chemical storage and handling research.
Contact:
Jim Beaty, AGRY
Animal
Disease Diagnostic Laboratory
- Provides diagnostics service to veterinary practitioners,
animal producers, companion animal owners, wildlife conservationists,
animal researchers and state/federal regulatory officials
Contact:
494-7440
Animal
Sciences Research and Education Center
- facilities for research and education in various animal production
systems, including aquaculture, beef, dairy, poultry, sheep, and
swine. A feed mill which formulates food for Purdue research livestock
is also located on the SDRC.
Contact:
Larry Underwood, ANSC (765) 583-2400
Campus
Wide Mass Spectrometry Facility - high sensitivity
analysis of proteins and nucleic acids, including fast atom bombardment,
electrospray, MALDI, and plasma desorption spectrometers
Contact:
Karl Wood, CHEM
Cancer
Center Facilities
- provides services to both Cancer Center members and non-members
in NMR, mass spectrometry, analytical cytology, DNA analysis, and
drug development.
Contact:
494-9129
http://www.cancer.purdue.edu
Computational
Genomics Facility - 3 SUN workstations, 4 PCs,
2 G4 Macintosh computers, and an Enterprise 3500 SUN server for
central storage of software needed for genomics research.
Contact:
Rebecca Doerge, STAT/AGRY
Constructed
Wetlands - monitored constructed wetlands for studies
on 1) treatment of agricultural runoff from land on and adjacent
to the Animal Sciences Research & Education Center , and 2)
golf course and urban runoff on the Kampen Golf Course
Animal
waste wetland contact: George Parker, FNR gparker@purdue.edu
Kampen
Golf Course wetland contact: Zac
Reicher, AGRY
Core
Laboratory for Image Analysis and Multidimensional Applications
(CRISTAL) - biomedical applications imaging
laboratory that provides shared instrumentation facilities with
research focused on multiresolution client-server environments for
fast navigation and search of high-resolution image databases
Contact:
John Turek, BMS
Crop
Diagnostic Training and Research Center - outdoor
laboratories with over 2,000 small plots illustrating insect, weed,
disease, fertilizer, and cultural problems common to corn, soybeans,
alfalfa, and wheat for use in training and research.
Contact:
Cory Gerber, AGRY
Food
Science Pilot Laboratory - 9000 sq. ft. of laboratory
space designed to test model processes somewhere between bench and
commercial scale facilities; equipped for aseptic and thermal processing
and packaging, equipment design and development, automated quality
control, and in-line physical/chemical sensor evaluation, as well
as others.
Contact:
Steve Smith, FS
Genomics
Core Facility - high-throughput DNA sequencing
(ABI 377 and ABI 3700 able to sequence over 200,000 samples in a
year), automated plasmid DNA preparation, gene expression profiling
through construction and reading of microarrays (Biorobotics Total
Array System and GSI Lumonics Scanarray 4000), and high-definition
(low –throughput) DNA sequencing (Applied Biosystems 377 and Licor
4200L sequencers).
Contact:
Phillip San Miguel , HLA
Life
Science Microscopy Facility - provides multi-user
and service options for scanning electron microscopy, transmission
electron microscopy and light microscopy; administered through Agricultural
Research Programs
Contact:
Debby Sherman, HLS
Plant
Growth Facilities - 25 greenhouse rooms totaling
34,800 sq. ft., 2 growth rooms, 41 growth chambers, 5 walk-in coolers,
a tissue culture laboratory, three teaching laboratories and 4,500
sq. ft. of headhouse space for offices, work space and storage
Contact:
Rob Eddy, HLA
Plant
& Pest Diagnostic Laboratory - provides
rapid and accurate identification of pests and problems associated
with plants, as well as other types of vertebrate and invertebrate
pests, for the extension specialists and county educators, research
faculty and staff, and for private businesses and citizens of Indiana.
Contact:
Gail Ruhl, BTNY
Post-Harvest
Education & Research Center - -
includes a fully functional grain handling center (built in 1984)
and a new16-bin state-of-the-art pilot facility (built in 1997
Contact:
Dirk E. Maier , ABE
Protein
Separation and Analysis Laboratory (PSAL) -
Will soon offer services in Proteomics, Peptide Mapping, Protein
Sequencing and Amino Acid Analysis.
Contact:
Mary Bower, BCHM
Purdue
Agricultural Air Quality Laboratory
- specializes in odor assessment using olfactometry, chemical
analyses using gas chromatography, and continuous emissions monitoring
of ammonia, hydrogen sulfide and carbon dioxide
Contact:
Al Heber, ABE
Purdue
Agricultural Centers -
A network of farms across Indiana used for research and extension
activities requiring field facilities
Contact:
Jerry
Fankhouser, AGAD
Sensory
Evaluation Laboratory - provides sensory analysis
through subjective tasting of food acceptability with individual
tasting booths, controlled lighting and ventilation, computerized
data collection, and a water filtration system.
Contact:
Steve Smith, FS
Transgenic
Mouse Core Facility - This facility provides
two basic services: 1) transgenic mouse generation and 2) embryonic
stem cell targeting and blastocyst injection to generate gene-altered
mice.
Contact:
Judy Hallett, BIOL 496-3352
Water
Quality Field Station - consists of 54 individually
tiled and instrumented field plots structured to allow for studies
on movement of agricultural chemicals under various management practices
and cropping systems.
Contact:
Sylvie Brouder , AGRY
A
list of other multidisciplinary research facilities available at
Purdue can be found at http://www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/partners/recharge.html
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