Dr. Mancuso of the department at the School of Public Health occupies 550 square feet of laboratory space in which he conducts assay sampling among other activities. This lab is equipped with necessary facilities for animal surgery, cell isolation, and enzyme immunosorbant assays, and cell culture. In addition, Dr. Mancuso has access to a Molecular Devices Spectromaxplus plate reader in an adjacent laboratory.
Dr. Mancuso’s lab is equipped with a laminar flow biological safety hood, tissue homogenizer, CO2 incubator, inverted microscope, fluorescent and microscopes with color and high resolution camera’s for image acquisition, a fume hood, water bath, analytical balances, refrigerated centrifuge, micro-centrifuge, cytospin-slide centrifuge, a 4°C refrigerator, a -70°C freezer. Within adjacent laboratories in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences are additional support equipment including a UV spectrophotometer, liquid nitrogen storage tanks, standard and fluorescent 96-well plate readers, and fluorescent and con-focal microscopes. Dr. Mancuso also has access to thermal cyclers for RT-PCR, one ultracentrifuge, two electrophoresis units, one scintillation counter, and a Fuji Scanner for densitometric analysis of gels.