The Lin Research Group occupies two adjacent certified biosafety level-2 (BL2) laboratories (SL214 & SL216 ~1,200 sq. ft.) in the Biomedical Engineering Department at IUPUI. Major equipment in the lab include:

Biofabrication
  • Allevi 3 Bioprinter
  • Photopolymerization light sources, including a hand-held UV lamp, three UV tube lamps, four Halogen cold light lamps, and Omnicure S1000 spot curing system
  • Syringe pumps
  • Branson® S-450 Sonifier digital ultrasonic processor and acoustic sound enclosure
Cell culture
  • Two tissue culture laminar flow hoods
  • Two direct heat air-jecketed CO2 incubators
  • Lionheart FX automated live cell imager
  • Countess® II FL automated cell counter
  • Nikon-Ti inverted optical microscope with epifluorescence attachment
  • Bench-top refrigerated microplate centrifuge 
  • ​Bench-top ventilated conical tune centrifuge
  • Refrigerators, freezers, and cryogenic storage
Chemical synthesis
  • Fume hoods with vacuum/gas dual manifold
  • Buchi rotary evaporator 
  • CEM Liberty 1 automated microwave-assisted peptide synthesizer
  • Labconco bench-top lyophilizer
  • Heat ovens, vacuum oven, and desiccators
  • Analytical and top-load balances, pH meter, stirring hotplates, orbital shakers
  • Orbital shakers, analytical and top-load balances, pH meter, stirring hotplates, sonicator cleaner
  • Flammable storage refrigerator and freezer
  • Heat and microwave ovens
Materials characterization
  • Bohlin CVO digital rheometer with UV and visible light cure modules
  • Optics11 Piuma Nanoindenter
  • PerkinElmer Flexar High performance liquid chromatography
  • PreSens Microx X4 microfiber optic oxygen transmitter and needle-type oxygen sensor
  • Multi-mode microplate reader
Molecular biology
  • AirClean® AC600 Series PCR Workstations with HEPA-filtered air & UV light irradiation
  • Eppendorf epMotion 5070m liquid handling workstation
  • Nanodrop 2000 spectrophotometer
  • Bio-Rad gel electrophoresis and Trans-Blot® Turbo™ Transfer system 
  • T100 thermal cycler
  • QuantStudio 3 real-time PCR machine
  • Shaker incubator for bacteria culture
  • Chromatography refrigerator
Other share equipment and facilities:
  • IU Simon Cancer Center Share Facilities (Link)
  • Indiana O'Brien Center for Advanced Microscopic Analysis (Link)
  • IUPUI School of Science Nanoscale Imaging Center
  • Autoclave, -80°C freezer, liquid nitrogen
  • Histology processing and immunostaining equipment
  • Material Testing System
  • NMR, FTIR, Mass spectrometry facility (Agilent GC-MS and LC-MS), Dynamic light scattering (DLS) instrument ​