Science Shop Projects - Biology
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The photos below show some of the recent equipment repairs and faculty projects that have been performed in the Science Shop by Brian Berg. Senior research projects are also developed and created with his guidance.
Biology Projects
Three NYS DEC grant funded polycarbonate “suitcases” built in the shop for Professor Brad Baldwin’s study of aquatic invasive species.
The polycarbonate box is submerged and closed around aquatic plants. When brought out of the water, the screens in the box allow the water to drain out, capturing the invertebrates living on and around the plants allowing the invertebrates to be counted. For Professor Brad Baldwin’s grant-funded study of invasive species.
Stand built to protect a new Incubator Control Box, which runs a Stage Top Incubator on the Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope for live cell-imaging. The stand also hides a recycle bin and has room for other items that you may not wish to keep on top of the optics table
Storage box to help organize the Biology Field Equipment Room
Aluminum cylinders to be used for Petri dish bacteria transfers. These cylinders were built for Emily Dixon’s research student Aiden Sax ’26 and will also be used in Lorraine Olendzenski’s microbiology lab
UV light containment cabinet built in Dr. Brad Baldwin’s lab for Maggie Wenger’s ‘24 SYE
Replaced the UV lamps in the Gene Linker UV chamber
Glassware shelf built for the Bio Prep Lab to increase storage space and enhance organization
Replaced a bent stirring wire with a new wire on the Advanced Instruments osmometer
Track tubes to be placed in the forest to study mice. Each tube will have bait, a paper strip, and an inked surface inside. A mouse will step on the inked pad and leave its tracks on the paper inside. These track tubes were built for Jane Krausman’s ’23 SYE
Wynogradsky columns built in the shop for Microbiology lab
The plastic spindle that the light intensity dial revolves around severed, rendering a compound microscope inoperative. I turned a new threaded spindle out of aluminum and epoxied it into place.
Replaced pump head assembly, inlet/outlet fittings, and three-prong plug on vacuum-pressure pump
Copper rings on petri dish used in Dr. Ana Estevez's "Drugs and the Brain" lab class
Ashleigh Ellis '18 plating copper electrodes with silver for her SYE, "Osteoblast Regeneration"
Copper electrode in an electrolytic bath being plated with silver. Silver nitrate byproduct is settling out of the solution
Chemical resistant glassware stand built for the microbiology lab to increase counter space and organization
Transilluminator workstation built in the shop to enhance the usability and safety of the Foto Phoresis apparatus
Associate Professor of Biology Mike Temkin and Brian with the new transilluminator workstation