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The Center for Environmental Biotechnology is housed in the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University and contains approximately 8,000 sq. ft. of state-of-the-art laboratory, computing, and office facilities. The laboratories are managed by a professional Laboratory Manager, Ms. Diane Hagner, who has a B.S. in chemistry and one in zoology. The Center’s office is supported by a full-time Administrative Associate, Ms. Saunia Calloway, who has a B.S. in business.

The laboratories are organized into three core facilities. The chemical analytical facility supports routinely used analyses. Key equipment include: Trace Analytical (now Ametek) Reduction Gas Analyzer, Shimadzu Prominence High-Performance Liquid Chromatograph with diode array and refractive index detectors, Dionex ICS 3000 Ion Chromatograph with amperometric and conductivity detectors, Shimadzu Gas Chromatograph GC 2010 equipped with FID, ECD, and TCD detectors and a CombiPal robotic head space autosampler, Shimadzu QP2010 quadrupole GCMS, Thermo Electron Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer with Dual Flame/Furnace capability, Shimadzu Total Organic Carbon (TOC) Analyzer with solids module, Varian Fluorescence and UV/Vis Spectrophotometers, and Perkin Elmer Liquid Scintillation Counter. The laboratories also are well equipped for standard wet-chemistry analyses as well as high-purity water systems.

The microbiology and molecular biology facility is fully equipped to carry out research on classical microbiology and molecular microbial ecology. Of particular importance are the following pieces of equipment and specialized facilities: Coy Anaerobic Glove Box, Anaerobic Gassing Station, Zeiss Confocal Laser Scanning microscope, Olympus research-grade light and fluorescence microscopes, standard and DGGE electrophoresis systems, Eppendorf epgradient Polymerase Chain Reaction Thermocyclers , BioRad iQ5 Quantitative Real-Time PCR Detection system, Biorad Experion Automated Electrophoresis system, Biorad Gel Doc Molecular Imaging system, incubators, freezers, refrigerators, and an ultracentrifuge.

The process laboratory is a unique, custom-designed research space that maximizes flexibility for supporting the wide range of bench-scale reactor systems used in Center research. Flexibility is obtained with three “islands” that have electrical, Internet, water, and gas utilities running overhead, while the space below is designed and constructed to support a range of reactor systems that will change over time. Currently, the process laboratory contains microbial fuelcells, membrane biofilm reactors, methanogenic reactors, bio-hydrogen reactors, and photobiocatalysis reactors.

The Center also has high capacity Dell and Apple computing stations and has access to state-of-the art facilities such as Waters LCMS, Beckman Coulter Liquid handling Robot, Amersham Biosciences Typhoon Trio multifunction imager, and Perkin Elmer Microarray Spotter and Scanner located in other centers of the Biodesign Institute. Specialized ASU facilities available to Center researchers for a modest user fee include: scanning and transmission electron microscopy, x-ray diffraction, ion-beam analysis, inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, atomic force microscopy, FTIR spectrometry, and secondary ion mass spectrometry.