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Resources, Facilities, and Service Centers
K-State houses a number of core facilities and research centers that facilitate integrative research across disciplinary boundaries. The following service centers are housed in the Division of Biology.
The K-State Fly Food Kitchen provides high quality media (fly food), at an affordable price, for maintenance of Drosophila lab strains. We meet the needs of lab researchers, saving them time, effort, and money.
The Kansas Lipidomics Research Center (KLRC) provides quantitative lipid analysis using mass spectrometry. KLRC serves scientists at K-State and from around the world. KLRC also can provide lipid standard mixtures and training for scientists in mass spectrometry-based lipid analysis, related sample preparation, and interpretation of lipidomic data.
The Microscope Facility is a fee for services facility housed in the basement of Ackert Hall. This facility provides complete individual or small group use, training and familiarization with equipment and techniques for transmission electron, scanning electron, fluorescence and confocal microscopies and elemental analysis. Clients can be trained in specimen preparation and use of instruments themselves or may request assistance from the facility's staff.
The Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometry Laboratory (SIMSL) is dedicated to stable isotope and elemental analysis of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N), in organic and inorganic phases (solids, liquids and gases) as well as oxygen (O) and hydrogen (H) in water samples. SIMSL is a hands-on teaching facility for the students (undergraduate and graduate) at Kansas State University, and a regional research facility for stable isotope users. SIMSL is currently accepting samples for C, N, and water analyses.
