This is the biochemistry and radioimmunassay laboratory.  It is equipped with centrifuge, liquid scintillation counter and general biochemistry equipment.  We use this laboratory especially for chromatographic separation and measurement of steroid hormones. 

This is another view of the biochemistry/radioimmuonassay laboratory with the scintillation counter in the foreground and the centrifuge in the background.

This is the other laboratory where we do general procedures, surgery, image analysis and histology.

This the image analysis station running Image Pro software.  It can be hooked up to the Olympus BX40 compound microscope or to either of the Zeiss dissection scopes to acquire images for analysis.  

This is the histology station with a Zeiss microtome for paraffin histology.  Elsewhere in the department are cryostats and vibratomes to section frozen or fresh tissue.  Sectioned tissue is then used for immunohistochemistry, volumetric measurements or in situ hybridization.

This is one of the two surgery stations.  Each is  equipped with a Zeiss dissecting microscope, boom arm stand, high working distance objective, fiber optic ring light and cautery.

This is one of the environmental chambers.  This one is located in the laboratory itself and is usually used to incubate tree lizard eggs for the developmental studies.  We also have several other environmental chambers in the animal care facilities of various sizes and capabilities available to us.  In addition, there are several temperature controlled rooms to house cages of captive lizards when we do not require the precision of an environmental chamber.