Dr. Habibi’s Laboratory

Discovery Park, UNT, K280

  • Biological Safety cabinet, a CO2 incubator, water bath, and a centrifuge, (For cell culturing)
  • Optical invert/fluorescence Olympus microscope w/camera and computer, (For cell imaging, analyzing cell viability and other fluorescence assays)
  • Microplate reader Aligent Biotek w/computer for measuring absorbance, fluorescence, and luminescence, 
  • High speed centrifuge, pH meter, vortex, an analytical balance, 4 /-20 C fridge, a -80  C ultra-low fridge, 
  • Freeze dryer, (For processing peptides,)
  • A liquid N2 storage tank (For storage of cell cultures)
  • SDS-PAGE electrophoresis and western blotting with power supplies, (For protein expression and identification)
  • Nanopure biological water purification system, a fume hood, 
  • High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), (For analytical and semi-prep of small molecules)
  • Peptide synthesizer CSBio II, (For synthesizing Peptides)
  • Electrospinning MTI (For synthesizing nanofibers)
  • 3D bioprinter Inkredible with inject ink, and Lumen X (For printing peptide hydrogels)
  • A Zeta sizer Nano ZS, and a Quartz Crystal Microbalance (For measuring size of self-assemble nanostructures)
  • Flow Cytometer

Institutional Facilities (UNT)

SEM, analytical FEG-SEM, Dual beam FIB/SEM, high-resolution TEM, AFM, XPS imaging spectrometer, optical microscope, Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer (FTIR), NMR, X-ray Diffraction (For peptide, nanostructure and material characterization)

Link to Materials Research Facility at UNT
https://mrf.research.unt.edu/mdc/tools_and_instruments
https://mrf.research.unt.edu/nanofabrication/tools-and-instruments