Facilities and Equipment

Our recently renovated laboratory includes nearly 7000 square feet of lab space. We have dedicated facilities and equipment for exercise testing and prescription, tissue culture, and biochemical analyses (including flow cytometry, qPCR, Western blotting, ELISA, and microscopy), and access to a murine exercise testing room and animal care facility. Additionally, we have access to core facilities and collaborations across UH and the greater Texas Medical Center.

Lab and Equipment

The Laboratory of Integrated Physiology was remodeled in 2021 and encompasses nearly 7000 square feet of lab space. Each primary investigator has designated benches, storage cabinets, and refrigerators and freezers for cold and room temperature consumables and supplies. Each bench space is equipped with an automated pipet, individual and multi-channel pipettes, vortex, microcentrifuge, and tube racks.

Biochemical Analysis Equipment

• Miltenyi MACSQuant 8 color (10 channel) flow cytometer (x2)
• MindRay coulter MDII-16 hematology analyzer
• BioRad CFX Connect
• QIAcube
• Life Technologies Qubit
• BioRad Chemidoc MP
• BioTek Plate Reader
• Luminex MAGPIX analyzer
• Laminar flow hood (6ft) (x2)
• CO2 incubator (x2)
• Puller Nikon inverted microscope Ti0S/L 100 (x2) 
• Nikon SMZ-1000 zoom stereo microscope
• Refrigerated Centrifuge (x3)
• Fume hood
• pH meter
• Autoclave
• Deionized water purifier
• Liquid nitrogen

Exercise Testing Equipment

• Parvomedics metabolic cart
• Hologic Horizon A DXA
• Cosmed Bod Pod
• Cosmed CPET 12-lead ECG
• Analox GM7 and handheld lactate meter with test strips
• Woodway Desmo Treadmill
• Wattbike Indoor Cycling ergometer
• Elliptical
• Monark arm cycling ergometer
• Stacked weight machines and
• Dumbbells, barbells, and plate weights