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Environmental Microbiology Lab (HSPH)

Location: HSPH, Building 1, Rooms G29, G30, G33, B40, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115

Core Summary:

The EM Lab supports study relating to aerobiology. The laboratory has the capability to generate, sample, and analyze fungal, bacterial, and viral microbes.

Institutions:
  • Harvard School of Public Health
Personnel/Contact Information:

Member: McDevitt, James, Ph.D.
Role: Instructor in the Exposure, Epidemiology and Risk Program
Phone: (617) 432-0988
Email

Facilities and Equipment:

Location of Core: HSPH, Building 1, Rooms G29, G30, G33, B40, 665 Huntington Ave., Boston, MA 02115

Major Equipment:

  • ATI 2-wire transmitter hydrogen peroxide meter
  • Collison CN24 Aerosol Generators
  • MJR PTC-200 thermocyler
  • Olympus CKX-41 inverted fluorescent microscope
  • Room Sized Aerosol Chamber
  • Sheldon model 9005 humidity chamber
  • SKC BioSampler Impinger Bio-aerosol Samplers
  • Small Aerosol Chamber
  • Stearis vaporized hydrogen peroxide decontamination system
  • ThermoAndersen Hi-Vol particulate sampler
  • Thermo Scientific Six-Stage Viable Andersen cascade impactor
Services:
  • Environmental microbiology material analysis

    Measurements supported:
    * PCR analysis of microbial samples

    * Growing fungal and bacterial cultures

    * Cell culture for viral assays

    * Testing of virus aerosol deactivation and control under "real-world" conditions

    * Ultraviolet light dose response studies

    * Ambient and lab bioaerosol collection and sizing.


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Last updated: 2012-08-10T12:49:09.073-05:00