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Facility Resources The Michigan Proteome Consortium (MPC) is a distributed laboratory that occupies approximately a total of 3,000 square feet of laboratory space and separate office space at our participating institutions. Personnel employed by the MPC includes the Senior Director, 2 Directors, an Associate Director and 17 trained laboratory personnel, 8 of whom are Ph.D.'s. The laboratories are distributed in the following way: University of Michigan The Proteome Mapping Core at the University of Michigan currently occupies 788 square feet of recently renovated laboratory space. This is in addition to 742 square feet of instrument space and 163 square feet of office space shared with the N.R.P.P. Two Applied Biosystems 4800 Proteomics Analyzer (TOFTOF) mass spectrometer Finnegan LCQ Deca mass spectrometer with New Objectives nanoelectrospray source Applied Biosystems DE PRO Micromass MassPrep sample digestion robot Biorad FX Plus laser scanner Dionex nano LC Thermo Orbitrap with nano spray interparced to n Agilent and nano LC OPOTEK IR laser tunable in the 2,200 to 3,000 nm range with a 3mJ minimum power throughout the range Instrumentation Available for Walk-Up Use (Investigators with appropriate training) Applied Biosystems DE PRO Applied Biosystem 4700 Proteomics Analyzer Michigan State University Micromass QToF Ultima LC-MS/MS instrument equipped with Waters CapLC capillary HPLC ThemoFinnigan LCQ Deca XP LC-MS/MS instrument equipped with Dionex capillary HPLC Micromass MassPrep robot for automated digestions and sample spotting Biorad Proteome Works spot cutter FX Proplus imaging system LTQ-LC Van Andel Research Institute 250 square foot microarray equipment room with arrayer, scanner, clinical centrifuge and equipment for high-throughput PCR and gels. Benkman Biomek FX liquid handling robot 50 square foot wet lab Wayne State University 1,400 square foot lab including two offices Biomek FX liquid-handling robot with two arms, one equipped with a 96-channel head and the other with a Span 8 MJR Tetrad 4x96 thermocycler The lab also has freezers, incubators, computers, and small equipment to outfit 6 lab benches Top of page Lab Resources University of Michigan Michigan State University Van Andel Research Institute Wayne State University

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