Facilities, Institutes and Capabilities

Facilities and Institutes

Researchers in the Faculty of Science have a wide range of expertise and capabilities which present opportunities to engage and collaborate across many areas of interest. If you are interested in working with our researchers or want to find out more, please contact Science.ResearchFacilitator@umanitoba.ca.

BioExM

Data Science Nexus

Manitoba Institute for New Materials

Richardson Centre for Functional Foods and Nutraceuticals

MALDI Mass Spectrometry Facility

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility

Chemical Analysis Lab

PIMS - international math consortium

WIN Herbarium

Ewen Campus Observatory & Lockhart Planetarium

Buller Greenhouse

All Research Capabilities

Life Sciences Capabilities

Physical and Chemical Sciences Capabilities

Computational Capabilities

Equipment

Life Sciences Capabilities

Anaerobic microbial growth
Antibiotic target site identification, next-generation sequencing
Bacterial mutant library construction and functional screening
Drug and chemical interactions with cells and receptors
Flow cytometry and cell sorting
High content imaging with environmental and time-lapse capabilities
High throughput and high sensitivity gene expression analysis
High throughput UV/vis/fluorescence/luminescence measurement
Insect culture
Live cell image analysis
Molecular and genetic studies for antibiotic resistance and development
Plant biology – photosynthesis measurements and chlorophyll quantitation
Protein structure determination, x-ray crystallography
Subcellular fractionation, ultracentrifugation
Tissue analysis – vibratome slicing, laser microdissection, RNA sequencing data analysis

Physical and Chemical Sciences Capabilities

Analysis of small non-polar (volatile) molecules
Characterization of nanostructured spintronic device
Chemical composition, valency and site occupancy of iron in iron-based materials (Low to High Temp: 10K to 900°C), Mössbauer spectroscopy
DC and AC magnetization measurements, SQUID Magnetometry
Determination of hydrodynamic size of nanoparticles, dynamic light scattering
Thermogravimetric analysis, determination of mass loss in microgram scale in a controlled environment (applications for almost all varieties of materials)
Elemental analysis (mineral analysis)
Grazing incidence X-ray diffraction of thin films
High-resolution laser spectroscopy
Molecular weight analysis of small polar molecules
Nuclear technologies
PCB milling for RF and microwave applications
Penetrative imaging, microwave holography
Quantitation of fluorescing compounds
Quantitation of light absorbing compounds
Production/detection of rare isotopes
Room temperature and low temperature (down to 20K) X-ray Diffraction
Separation and identification of known non-polar organic compounds, gas chromatography
Separation and identification of known organic compounds, HPLC
Small-angle X-ray scattering of nanoparticles
Ultra-high precision measurements (atomic clock type)
Ultra-cold atom technologies
Ultra-high vacuum technologies
Wafer interconnections, wedge bonding

Computational Capabilities

Applications of commutative algebra (such as coding theory, digital circuit verification, statistics)
Applied probability, Markov chains, combinatorics
Assessing equivalence and non-inferiority in drug development
Cloud computing, policy management and resource pricing
Computer algebra, software development
Computer vision
Data privacy, secure computation, anonymization techniques, encryption algorithms
Deep learning
Financial risk forecasting
Financial derivatives, modelling, algorithm design and forecasting
Geometric modelling and geometric optimization
Image video analysis
Machine learning
Modelling and predicting infections
Parallel computers, high-performance computing
Quality and productivity improvement, design of experiments
Social network models, user attributes and behaviour

Equipment

Anaerobic growth chambers
BD FACSCalibur
Beckman L8-80
Beckman Optima Micro-ultracentrifuge
Bruker D8 DaVinci Diffractometer
cryo-EM microscope (Talos)
GPU servers
In-house private cloud
Infrared gas analyzer (IRGA)
Kulicke and Soffa Mode 4526
Leica LMD6000 Microscope
Leica M205 Fluorescence Dissecting Microscope
LPKF ProtoMat S103
Microbiology growth facilities
Molecular devices ImageXpress Micro4
Multicore Linux and Windows operating systems and dedicated servers
Nanion port-a-patch medium throughput
Nikon Ti-U inverted microscope with a C1-Plus confocal system
Patch clamp electrophysiology rigs
Percival Incubators
Perkin Elmer (TGA-7)
Photocor
qPCR, liquid handling robotics
Quantum Design (MPMS XL-5)
QX200 with automated droplet generation
Robotic colony picker/arrayer robotic plate reader
State-of-the-art Talos cryo-electron microscope for structural biology research
Varian 320 triple quad MS
Varian 3800, 3900 GC’s
Varian 500 LC-MS
Varian Cary 50 UV-Vis spectrophotometer
Varian Eclipse
Varian ICP-OES 720
Varian Prostar LC
Vibratome
WissEl spectrometers
X-ray diffraction facility
Zeiss LSM 700 Upright Confocal and Axioimager Inverted Epifluorescent microscopes