Laboratory facilities for the Urology Department include some of today's top research tools. With more than 10,380 square feet of academic and laboratory space and close to $1 million worth of laboratory equipment available, UT Southwestern Medical Center provides top lab equipment resources for research fellows.

The Department, located in the Harry S. Moss Clinical Sciences Buidling (J Building), hosts a:

• Tumor biology lab
• Gene therapy lab
• Smooth muscle lab
• Pediatric urology lab
• Tissue repository

Common departmental research areas comprise an additional 1,500 square feet, including:

• Two walk-in cold rooms
• Computer room
• Radioactive room
• Histology and dark room
• Preparation room with ultra- and preparative centrifuges, autoclave machine, dishwasher and ice machine

Lab Equipment for Basic Science Research:

Thermal cyclers:  Three Perkin-Elmer thermal cyclers (model 480, 9600, and 7200), one Bio-Rad iCyclers, one Real Time iCycler, Eppendorf Mastercycler, and M.J. DNA machine

Microscopes:  One Olympus dissecting microscope with video monitor/digital image capture, one Nikon DIAPHOT fluorescence invert microscope, one Nikon DIAPHOT fluorescence invert microscope OPTIPHOT microscope with computer assisted image analysis (NIH IMAGE) system, one Nikon E-100 computer driven automatic microscope with MetaMorph image analysis system

Tissue culture facilities include five CO2 incubators with three tissue culture hoods (Nuaire), Nikon TMS invert microscope, and Model ZBI coulter counter

Centrifuges:  Beckmen Optima XL-100K ultra and Avanti J-25 preparative centrifuges and rotors, four table top high-speed centrifuges, and numerous microcentrifuges

Eagle eye II still video system (Stratagene) and digital camera gel documentation station (UVP)

Five ultra-low freezers (Harris, Sanyo) for tissue specimen preservation

HPLC purification apparatus for protein, DNA and virus (Amersham/Pharmacia)

Grass Model 7E six-channel polygraph with recorder, field stimulators and isometric transducers for physiologic analysis

Semi-automatic sequencing gel apparatus (Genomyx), and eight vertical sequencing gel electrophoresis chambers

Numerous electrophoretic equipment including two-dimension electrophoresis system (Bio-Rad), four electroblotting devices, and four gel dryers

Other equipment, including microplate autoreader (BIO-TEK), luminometer (TROPIX), Econo chromatography system plus rotofor preparative cell, Leica CM1850 cryostat and microtom, spectophotometer (Beckman DU640), scintillation counter (Beckman LS 3801), DNA crosslinking device (Stratagene), 2 speed-vac evaporators, lypholizer, polytron homogenizers, and numerous incubation baths and environmental shakers.

For more information about the Department of Urology, contact:

Phone: 214-648-4765, FAX: 214-648-4789

Mailing Address:  5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX  75390-9110