Additional BGTC Facilities

Other important facilities within the Center for Structural Biology base include an executive conference room for small meetings and presentations; graduate courses (e.g., Biochemistry II) make use of 2 larger meeting rooms within the 275-person seminar room. This large room is provided with soundproof, folding dividers; each of the 4 smaller meeting areas is completely equipped with an LCD projector and other audiovisual aids. The BGTC also has a 160-seat cafeteria with terrace and serves breakfast and lunch. And, although there is a 20,000-volume research library on site, CSBWFU investigators have full access to the extensive on-line journal collections available through both the Coy C. Carpenter Library (WFU School of Medicine) and the Z. Smith Reynolds Library (WFU Reynolda Campus). All undergraduate and graduate students are given laptop computers, and the entire CSBWFU base offers a wireless Internet environment.

Two additional shared instrumentation facilities located at the Bowman Gray Technical Center (BGTC) site include the Analytical Ultracentrifugation Facility (Beckman Optima XL-A with UV/vis optics), directed by Dr. Leslie Poole, and the Rapid Reaction Kinetics and Spectroscopy Laboratory, directed by Dr. Al Claiborne and Dr. Derek Parsonage. The latter facility includes an Applied Photophysics DX.17 MV stopped-flow spectrophotometer (UV/vis/fluorescence) with photodiode array accessory and Acorn 32-bit RISC-processor workstation. An SGI 320 Windows 2000 workstation is used with APL's PC Pro-K software for stopped-flow data analysis. Other instrumentation includes a KinTek Instruments rapid-quench flow, Agilent 8453 and Beckman DU7500 diode-array spectrophotometers, and an SLM AB2 spectrofluorimeter. The darkroom facility includes an X-ray film processor, a STORM phosphorimager, and a Beckman liquid scintillation counter. A separate tissue culture room provides for protein expression in insect cell cultures, and a full range of autoclaves for media sterilization is also available on-site.