Research Facilities
The Oral Biology Section of the Melbourne Dental School has a strong research record with funding from NH&MRC, ARC and industry. We have collaborations with other research groups as well as links with industrial partners.
The staff and students use state-of-the-art techniques in:
- protein chemistry
- molecular biology
- microbiology
- immunology
- mass spectrometry
- NMR spectroscopy
- molecular modelling
Brief List of Available Equipment and Technologies
Protein chemistry
- Reverse phase, ion exchange, gel filtration macro and micro liquid
chromatography systems (AKTA, RP-HPLC) - capillary electrophoresis
- peptide synthesizer
- 1 and 2D gel electrophoresis
- commercial process development
- high-speed centrifuges
- atomic absorption spectrophotometer
Molecular Biology
- Ion Torrent next generation sequencing technology
- Recombinant DNA technology
- DNA microarray
Immunology
- peptide vaccine production
Microbiology
- anaerobic workstation
- microbial continuous culture
- cell and tissue culture
- confocal microscopy
Mass spectrometry
- MALDI-TOF-TOF
- Electrospray ion-trap-MS
- NMR spectroscopy
- access to 600 MHz NMR facility
- mass spectrometry robotics
Molecular Modelling
- Silicon Graphics workstations
- Software for modelling proteins and inorganic materials