Bioenergetics Services

The bioenergetics unit has about 400 square feet of dedicated laboratory space in DDB with three dedicated XF96 instruments. The tissue culture facility within the core contains the Satorius “ZOOM” microscope contained in a 37°C incubator and EVOS 5000 fluorescent/bright field microscope. Further equipment includes a Nano-dropTM 8000 spectrophotometer, a VIA Flow semi-automated pipetting system to facilitate high throughput pipetting, a Fluoroskan-Ascent Fluorescent plate reader and various multichannel pipettes and support equipment.

Available Assays

• Mito Stress
• Phenotype
• Glycolytic Stress
• Glycolytic Rate
• ATP Rate
• Mito Fuel Flex
• Palmitate/BSA assay
• Plasma membrane/mitochondria
• Mitochondrial Stress Assay
• Cell tracking and counting
• Cell health and apoptosis
• Cell imaging over extended times