Melbourne Dental School

Research Facilities

The Oral Biology Section of the Melbourne Dental School has a strong research record with funding from NH&MRC, ARC and industry. We have collaborations with other research groups as well as links with industrial partners.

The staff and students use state-of-the-art techniques in:

Brief List of Available Equipment and Technologies

Protein chemistry

  • Reverse phase, ion exchange, gel filtration macro and micro liquid
    chromatography systems (FPLC, Smart system, AKTA, RP-HPLC)
  • capilliary electrophoresis
  • protein sequencer
  • peptide synthesizer
  • 1 and 2D gel electrophoresis
  • commercial process development
  • centrifuges
  • atomic absorption spectrophotometer

Ms Deanne Catmull examining biofilm formation and structure using the confocal microscope

Molecular Biology
  • DNA sequencer
  • Recombinant DNA technology
  • DNA microarray

Ms Shao Bing Fang BSc (Hons) at the Anaerobic workstation studying Bioactive peptides from milk caesines

Immunology
  • peptide vaccine production
 

Microbiology
  • anaerobic workstation
  • microbial continuous culture
  • cell and tissue culture
  • confocal microscope
 

Mass spectrometry
  • MALDI-TOF-TOF
  • Electrospray ion-trap-MS
  • NMR spectroscopy
  • access to 600 MHz NMR facility
  • mass spectrometry robotics

Dr Luan Ngo, PhD student using the Maldi_TOF-TOF to examine biomarkers in gingival crevicular fluid

Molecular Modelling
  • Silicon Graphics workstations
  • Software for modelling proteins and inorganic materials
  

 

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