Center for Environmental Biotechnology at UTennessee

Facilities

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) is the State of Tennessee's land grant institution and is the state's largest comprehensive public research institution. Currently, UTK enrolls approximately 27,000 students of which 7,100 are actively pursuing graduate degrees. The CEB was established in 1986 by the Tennessee Higher Education Commission and a $1,000,000 equipment grant from the United States Department of Education to provide multidisciplinary graduate and undergraduate training in Environmental Biotechnology. The CEB occupies 26,000 square feet of laboratory space in the University of Tennessee's state-of-the-art Science and Engineering Research Facility located on the main University campus and at the University's Pellissippi Research Facility in Knovxille, Tennessee. Extensive specialized microbial and chemical analytical equipment is available for CEB researchers. In addition to standard laboratory equipment, some of the specialized equipment available for use includes:

Hewlett-Packard Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer

Beckman Oligo 1000 DNA synthesizer

Genomyx Long Read Sequencer

Wallac 1450 Microbeta plus scintillation counter

Oriel Photomultiplier Detection Systems

Photon Counting Equipment

High Pressure Liquid Chromatographs

Gas Chromatographs with Flame Ionization and Electron Capture Detectors

Perkin-Elmer Thermocyclers
Packard Instruments Flow Scintillation Analyzer
BioRad iCyler Real-time PCR Detection System
ESI SDDC-2 Robotic Microarrayer
GSI Microarray Fluorescent Scanner

Campus Facilities:
Molecular Biology Resources Facility [homepage under construction]
The Division of Biology at UTK maintains a microscopy center. The facility serves a campus wide support group for electron, optical, and scanned probe microscopies, and for microanalysis. In addition, the facility offers courses on the physical principles and applications of microscopy. Equipment housed in this facility includes:

Hitachi S-800 SEM Scanning Electron Microscope

Hitachi S-3200 SEM Scanning Electron Microscope

Hitachi H-600 TEM Transmission Electron Microscope

Hitachi H-800 TEM Transmission Electron Microscope

Burleigh Scanning Tunneling Microscope

Noran Confocal Tandem Scanning Light Microscope

Leitz Optical Microscope
Biology Services Facility
The Biology Service Facility provides scientific instrument services for the Biology faculty and staff in the College of Liberal Arts, but is often able to deliver servies to other segments of the University community. Services offered include repair of electronic equiment, certification of biological transfer hoods, instrument development, computer hardware and software develoment, machining and mechanical services, refrigeration maintenance and development, and specialized woodworking services.

The Center for Environmental Biotechnology
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
676 Dabney Hall
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-1605
865-974-8080 | 865-974-8086 (fax)