The Nevada Proteomics Center offers high quality mass spectral and electrophoretic proteomic analysis using state-of-the-art technologies to all research faculty and students in Nevada at extremely competitive rates. A variety of services are offered including: enzymatic protein digestions, LC-MS/..

This facility, and the department shared resources, are primarily reserved for BMB faculty, staff, and students but the facility manager can arrange usage by individuals outside of BMB. Items available consist of a quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) system, several floor model super speed centrifuges, floor incubator/shakers, a lyophilizer, an automated electrophoresis system, several gas chromatographs, and a gel doc imaging system.

The Environmental Engineering Laboratory

The Multiphysics Laboratory is a 400 square foot facility located in Palmer Engineering. The lab conducts experimental research in fluid and solid mechanics, fluid-structure interaction, vibrations, chemo-electro-mechanics modeling, and smart material characterization.

This lab is dedicated to the analysis of fluid inclusions which are tiny droplets of geologic fluids trapped during the crystallization of minerals. The lab is well-equipped with instrumentation to perform microthermometric measurements of fluid inclusions to determine their composition (salinity, density) and trapping conditions (temperature, pressure). A high-temperature heating stage is available for measurement of melt inclusions to reconstruct formation conditions of silicate magmas. The lab also hosts a state-of the-art Raman spectrometer which can be used for different applications, such as in situ gas measurement of fluid/melt inclusions, identification of minerals and crystalline polymorphs, or hyperspectral mapping of internal microtextures and mineral assemblages.

These instrument facilities are available to support class instruction, student projects, and research. Faculty are available to provide guidance on survey design, data acquisition, processing workflows, and data interpretation.

The lab hosts field instruments for measurement of reflected light spectroscopy from 0.4 to 25 μm. Applications are geared toward bulk sample analysis for remote sensing field validation, hand sample and drill core and cutting material, and planetary analog studies.

Equipment and facilities for test and analysis of rock mechanical properties including elastic and brittle failure, rock mass modulus, tri- and uni-axial compressive strength, shear strength and point load.