welcome!

In the past year, the Lab has been filling with people & equipment!

We are conveniently located directly next to the campus ice cream shop, Ferdinand's. It also sells amazing cheese packaged in neat metal tins. You've heard of Cougar Gold, right?

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Thanks to startup funds from the Washington State Potato Commission, funding from the Telford Family Professorship, and to an NSF-DEB grant -- we've been able to purchase critical equipment for the lab. These things will help make our research possible.

pictured above from top left:

• Eppendorf vacuum centrifuge to dry down samples in 96 well plates or 1.5 mL tubes
• BluePippin: precise size selection of DNA fragments (getting the order in now)
• Stirling ultralow freezer (shipping now!)
• Qubit 4: measure DNA concentration (one of the first things I bought)
• TapeStation: automated 16-sample electrophoresis to measure fragment distribution & concentration - great for QC in next gen sequencing (arriving soon)
• Macropod: a top of the line imaging system (we love it & we'll share photos in the future)