Research Resources
The Section of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Medicin is based in The Methodist Hospital complex, which consists of six interconnected buildings housing 1,600 beds. These include: the Methodist Main/Dunn Tower for inpatient care, the Fondren-Brown Cardiovascular and Orthopedic Building for research and inpatient care, the Neurosensory Center for treatment for neurological disorders, the Smith Physician Office and Outpatient Tower, and the Scurlock Tower, which houses the Institute of Preventative Medicine and other patient service facilities.
Equipment
Fondren-Brown Building:
SALR Laboratories:
- Autoclave
- Balances (Mettler)
- Blot Analyzer (Betagen)
- Cell Culture Facilities (4 Tissue Culture Hoods and 3 Incubators)
- Centrifuges and Accessories (Beckman)
- Low-Speed (4)
- Ultracentrifuges (6)
- Chromatography and Electrophoresis
- FPLC (LKB/Pharmacia)
- High Performance Liquid Chromatographs (Hewlett-Packard, Spectraphysics)
- Gas Chromatograph - Mass Spectrometer (Hewlett-Packard)
- Various Gel Electrophoresis Units
- Pulse Gel Electrophoresis (BioRad)
- Cold Rooms
- Digital Photography for Gels
- ELISA Platereader and Accessories
- Fraction Collectors
- Freezers (-70°C, -20°C)
- Geiger Counter
- Digital Imager (Leica)
- Infusion Pumps
- Liquid Nitrogen Storage for Cells
- Liquid Scintillation Counters (Beckman)
- Lyophilizer (Virtis)
- Microbalance (Mettler)
- Microscopes
- Light
- Dissecting
- Fluorescence
- Microtome (Leica)
- Molecular Biology
- DNA Synthesizer (Millipore/Biosearch, Applied BioSystems)
- SequiGen Sequencing System (BioRad)
- Automated DNA Sequencer
- Thermal Cycler for PCR (MJ Research PTC 100)
- Orbital Shakers
- Ovens
- pH Meters
- Fluorimeter (SLM)
- Sonifiers
- Spectrophotometer (UV/VIS)
- Ultra-freezer
- Water Baths
- Water Purification
- X-Ray Film Developer
Scurlock Tower:
- Magnetic Resonance Imager, 1.5T with Phased Array Coils
Texas Children's Hospital Clinical Care Center:
- Nikon inverted microscopes,
- Sony CCD video cameras,
- microimage video systems timers,
- 13"B&W Sony monitors,
- stage enclosures for temperature control,
- VHS video recorders,
- Harvard 2 syringe infusion/withdrawal pumps,
- vacuum pumps and specially designed parallel plate flow chambers (1 with epifluorescence),
- 4 tissue culture rooms equipped with 6' laminar flow hoods,
- and CO2 incubators
Computing
- All of Baylor College of Medicine's research laboratories, clinical care units, and administrative offices are linked by a network.
The Network Operations arm is responsible for designing, configuring, installing and maintaining the network infrastructure that connects nearly 8,000 Baylor computing devices, including servers, desktop computers, laptops, printers, scanners and microscopes. The data infrastructure is comprised of miles of copper and fiber optic cables, as well as more than 500 routers, switches and hubs, located in over 30 buildings throughout the Texas Medical Center, the Houston metropolitan area and the State of Texas. In addition, the Network Operations department provides Internet and Internet2 access to Baylor's own computing customers, as well as to: - Texas Children's Hospital
- The Methodist Healthcare System
- St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
- The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research
- Harris County Hospital District
- The Texas Heart Institute
- Children's Nutrition Research Center
- TMC Library
- The Hospice Clinic.
Baylor's total Internet customer base exceeds 20,000 users.
The Biomedical Computing Facility serves Baylor as a strategic central resource to provide computational services, manage high-performance computation and data warehousing systems and most importantly, skilled personnel to serve the diverse computational needs of BCM faculty and students. We house high-performance computers, visualization equipment and data warehousing systems. In addition to the high-end computing equipment and support, the BCF also handles access to GCG, SeqLab and SeqWeb, as well as offering discounted licensing for several commonly used statistical software packages, including SAS and SPSS.