Laboratory Facilities

Lipid Analysis

• Isolation
• Ultracentrifuges
• Refrigerated centrifuges
• Solvent evaporators

Composition

• HPLC with Fluorescence, UV/Vis, photodiode array, electrochemical and refractive
• Index detectors
• Capillary Gas Chromatographs
• Thin Layer Chromatography
• UMass Mass Spectroscopy Center

Oxidative Stability

• Accelerated shelf-life testing
• Static Headspace Analyzer
• Dynamic Headspace Analyzer
• UV/Vis spectrophotometer with integrating sphere
• Fluorometer
• Atomic Absorption for Transition metal analysis

Isolation

• Ultracentrifuges
• Refrigerated centrifuges
• Solvent evaporators

Physical Properties

• Differential Scanning Calorimeter
• NMR Imaging
• UMass NMR Center
  

Physical Properties

• Appearance and Structure

• Image processing
• Colorimetry
• Ultrasonic Imaging
• NMR Imaging

Rheology

• Universal Testing Machines
• Dynamic Shear Rheometers
• Dynamic Mechanical Analysis
• Torsion Tester
• Penetrometer

Physical Properties

• Digital density meter
• Viscometers
• Rheometers
  

Food Emulsions

Emulsion Preparation

• High-pressure valve homogenizer – single valve
• High-pressure valve homogenizer – dual valve
• Ultrasonic generator
• Membrane Homogenizer

Droplet Size Analysis

• Dynamic Light Scattering
• Laser Diffraction
• UV-visible Spectrometry
• Ultrasonic Spectrometry
• NMR Restricted Diffusion
• Microscopy (Optical and Electron)

Droplet Charge Analysis

• Particle Electrophoresis (z-Potential)

• Droplet Crystallinity Analysis

• Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)
• Ultrasonic Resonator
• Optical Microscopy (cross-polarizers)

Physicochemical Properties of Emulsions

• Dynamic shear rheometer
• Instron Universal Testing Machine
• Colorimeter
• Digital density meter
• Ultrasonic imaging
• NMR imaging

Interfacial Characteristics

• Interfacial and surface tension meter
• Atomic Force Microscopy
• Quartz Crystal Microbalance
  

Bioactivity of Food Components

Tissue culture facility

• Biological Safety cabinet
• CO2 incubator
• Inverted microscope (Phase contrast)
• Cryostorage system Sonicator

Dehumidifier

• Animal testing
• Metabolic cages
• Freezer (-80ºC)
• Tissue homogenizer
• ELISA assay (Plate reader, Plate washer)
  

Natural product chemistry

Isolation

• Ultracentrifuges
• Refrigerated centrifuges
• Solvent evaporators
• HPLC
• Capillary Gas Chromatographs
• Thin Layer Chromatography
• Static Headspace Analyzer
• Column chromatography

Identification

• Mass spectrometry
• UV/Vis spectrophotometers
• Atomic Absorption for Transition metal analysis
• UMass NMR Center
• FT-IR

Food Biopolymers

• Molecular Conformation and Dynamics

• Dynamic light scattering
• Static light scattering
• Particle electrophoresis (z-Potential)
• Interfacial and surface tension meter
• Fluorescence spectrometer
• UV-visible spectrometer
• Digital density meter
• Ultrasonic spectrometer
• NMR relaxation
• Ultrasensitive differential scanning calorimeter

Molecular Interactions

• Isothermal titration calorimetry
• Ultrasensitive differential scanning calorimeter
• Fluorescence spectrometer
• Ultrasonic resonator
• Digital density meter

Physicochemical Properties

Dynamic shear rheometer

Composition

• Gel electrophoresis apparatus
• Scanning densitometer
  

Food Nanotechnology

• Formation of Nanostructures

• Continuous High-intensity Ultrasound Reactor
• Electrospinning Unit

Characterization of Nanostructures

• Dynamic Light Scattering
• Magnetic Resonance Imaging
• Particle Electrophoresis (z-Potential)
• Dynamic and Static Interfacial Tensiometry
• Isothermal Titration Calorimetry
• Ultrasensitive differential scanning calorimeter
• UMass Electron Microscopy Laboratories
• UMass X-Ray Spectroscopy Facilities
  

Development of Rapid Methods for Detection of Microorganisms

PCR methodology

• Real-time PCR thermal cycler
• Standard thermal cyclers for DNA amplification via PCR
• Electrophoresis chambers for DNA
• Electronic video documentation system

Immunology based detection

• Epifluorescence microscope
• Automated ELISA reader

Rapid mutation detection

• Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) units
  

Plant Tissue Culture

Plant tissue culture

• Walk-in incubator
• Laminar flow hood
• Stereomicroscope
• Inverted microscope

Biochemical Characterization

• Tissue disintegrator
• Ultra low freezers
• HPLC unit
  

Physiology of Food Borne Pathogens

• Microbiological Studies
• Phase microscopes with monitor and photo microscopy attachment
• Walk-in incubators/cold room
• Water purification systems
• Biological Safety Cabinet

Cellular Disruption

• Sonicator
• French press

Biochemical characterization

• Super speed and ultracentrifuges
• FPLC unit
• Fraction collectors and chromatography columns
• UV-visible spectrophotometers
• Vertical electrophoresis chambers and power supplies
• Scintillation counter

Genetics based bacterial strain differentiation

• Standard thermal cyclers for DNA amplification via PCR
• Denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) units for mutation detection
• Pulsed field gel electrophoresis system
• Electrophoresis chambers for DNA
• Electronic video documentation system
• Electroporation

Biofilm and transfer studies

• Automated ELISA reader
• CDC Biofilm Reactor
• Spiral plater
• Automated plate reader