Facilities
Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences Building (WFES)
534 John Kimbrough Blvd
College Station, TX 77843
(979) 845-5579
Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections (BRTC)
Biodiversity Research and Teaching Collections
Department of Ecology and Conservation Biology
TAMU 2258
College Station, TX 77843-2258
(979) 845-5783 | brtc@tamu.edu
S.M. Tracy Herbarium
S.M. Tracy Herbarium (TAES/TAMU)
Texas A&M University
2138 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-2138
(979) 845-4328
David Spalink, Director | dspalink@tamu.edu
Dale A. Kruse, Curator | dakruse@tamu.edu
Stable Isotopes for Biosphere Science Lab
215 Kleberg Center
2126 TAMU, Texas A&M University
College Station TX 77843-2126
Thomas Boutton, Co-Director | boutton@tamu.edu
Jason West, Co-Director | jbwest@tamu.edu
Shared Equipment
The department and our associated labs are home to state-of-the-art equipment available for use by students, faculty, staff and others by request. For questions about availability, please contact the staff or faculty associated with the equipment.
| Equipment | Host Lab | Room | Contacts/Instructions for access |
| Gel photo-documentation equipment: BioRad GelDoc Go Gel Imaging System | Light | 517 | Read Equipment Instructions, then contact Dr. Light (jessica.light@ag.tamu.edu) for door code |
| Quantitative PCR thermocycler: BioRad CFX OPUS 96 | Loopstra | 418 | Read Equipment Instructions, then contact Dr. Loopstra c-loopstra@tamu.edu) for door code |
| Qubit | Light | 517 | Read Equipment Instructions, then contact Dr. Light (jessica.light@ag.tamu.edu) for door code |
| Thermocycler BioRad T100 | Light | 517 | Read Equipment Instructions, then contact Dr. Light (jessica.light@ag.tamu.edu) for door code |
| Ultracold freezer (25.7 cu.ft.). | Mateos/Hurtado | 510 | Read Equipment Instructions, then contact Dr. Mateos (mmateos@tamu.edu) and/or graduate student Alanna Noland (anoland@tamu.edu) to arrange for access to lab. |
| Covaris m220 focused-ultrasonicator | Spalink | ||
| Refrigerated Microcentrifuge: EppendorfTM Model 5418 Microcentrifuges | Mateos/Hurtado | 510 | Read Equipment Instructions, then contact Dr. Mateos (mmateos@tamu.edu) and/or graduate student Alanna Noland (anoland@tamu.edu) to arrange for access to lab. |
| Refrigerated Centrifuge Multifuge X4FR Pro | Gatlin | 521 | Blaine Suehs, Delbert Gatlin. Expected to arrive July 2022 |
| SpectraMax® ABS Absorbance Plus Microplate Reader | Grace | 520 | Read Equipment Instructions, then contact Dr. Grace (jacquelyn.grace@ag.tamu.edu) for door code |
| Nanodrop | Mateos/Hurtado | 508 | Read Equipment Instructions, then contact Dr. Mateos (mmateos@tamu.edu) and/or graduate student Alanna Noland (anoland@tamu.edu) to arrange for access to lab. |
| Speedvac DNA concentrator | Mateos/Hurtado | 508 | Read Equipment Instructions, then contact Dr. Mateos (mmateos@tamu.edu) and/or graduate student Alanna Noland (anoland@tamu.edu) to arrange for access to lab. |