Five Year Procurement Plan
Five Year Procurement List
No | Name of the Equipment | Qty | Approximate cost in Lakhs | Justification for Procurement | User details |
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1 | Light sheet microscope | 1 | 380 | Light sheet fluorescence microscopy allows deep tissue imaging. | For Biology dept |
2 | Extracellular Flux Analyzer | 1 | 140 | Flux analyzer measure the oxygen consumption rate (OCR) and extracellular acidification rate (ECAR) of live cells in a 96-well plate format. | For Biology dept. |
3 | FACS with 96 well attachment for drug screening | 1 | 30 | Testing the effect of small molecules, drugs, antibodies on viability of cells, parasites or any other pathogen, yeast mutant screen | For Biology dept. |
4 | Automated DNA and RNA sample QC analyzser | 1 | 24 | Quality control (QC) of RNA and DNA samples for next-generation sequencing (NGS) | For Biology dept. |
5 | LiDAR (hand held) | 1 | 36 | Uses Laser to recreate 3D space from which vegetation structure can be quantified | Nandini, Robin and Plant science faculty |
6 | Animal house equipment | 1 | 420 | Individually ventillated cage systems including AHUs, IVC racks and cage units, cage changing stations, | Institutional facility |
7 | HPLC | 3 | 120 | For purifying peptides, metabolites and small molecules before analysis | For Biology dept. |
8 | Phosphoimager | 1 | 60 | For scanning radioactive gels | For Biology dept. |
9 | High end FACS Sorter | 1 | 300 | For Sorting and purifying different lineages of cells including single cell sorting and protoplast sorting | For Biology and probably Chemistry Department |
10 | Chemidoc | 2 | 40 | For scanning western blotting images | All biology and chemistry |
11 | Equiptment for radioactivity space | 1 | 50 | For Radioactivity quantification | All biology and chemistry |
12 | Lyophilizer | 4 | 50 | freeze drying for long-term storage of samples | All biology and chemistry |
13 | Microplate reader | 2 | 40 | For measuring fluorescence, luminescence, Kinetic analysis | All biology and chemistry |
14 | Epi-fluorescence Microscope | 3 | 60 | Detecting YFP, GFP, RFP, MCherry signal in cells, localization study | All biology and chemistry |
15 | Gel documentation system for a large gel (20cm x 25cm) | 2 | 25 | For visualizing large gels (20cm x 25cm) | All biology and chemistry |
16 | -80 freezers | 10 | 90 | For storing biological material | Biology department |
17 | UV Vis spectrophotometer with temperature controller | 4 | 60 | For absorption spectrum acquisition and melting profile | Hussain, Viji, Nibedita |
18 | Autoclave 220 L | 2 | 65 | For sterilization | Lab kitchen for entire biology department |
19 | -30 freezer | 10 | 30 | For storing biological material | For entire biology department |
20 | Controlled greenhouse | 6 | 300 | For growing transgenic plants in contained facilities | Plant science faculty |
21 | Speed breeding facility | 1 | 200 | To fasten breeding period of crop plants | Plant science faculty |
22 | Confocal laser scanning microscope (CLSM) | 2 | 500 | For live cell imaging | All biology and chemistry |
23 | Glassware washer | 3 | 50 | for cleaning glassware used in the experiments | For entire department- Lab kitchen |
24 | DNA speed vac | 3 | 18 | For concentrating DNA samples | For biology dept. - lab kitchen |
25 | Environment shakers | 10 | 20 | for growing microorganisms | All biology faculty |
26 | Liquid nitrogen container 200 lit | 1 | 5 | For storing biological material and for isolation of RNA | All biology and chemistry |
27 | Water purification system | 4 | 60 | For purified water for experiments | For Biology department. |
28 | Phenotypic microarray (Biolog) | 1 | 70 | For measuring differential nutrient assimiation, growth, and antibiotic sensitivity in medium throughput | For Biology department. |
29 | FACS for sorting bacteria | 1 | 30 | Screenning library by sorting fluorescent bacteria | For Biology department. |
30 | Bacterial incubation shakers | 6 | 60 | For Bacterial, fungal and yeast growth | For Biology department. |
31 | Agricultural Field equipment | 1 | 40 | For crop experiments under field conditions | Plant science faculty |
32 | HPC | 2 | 1000 | High performance computing for analyzing the big data | For Biology department. |
33 | Servers | 1 | 25 | for storage of bulk data | For Biology department |
34 | High content imaging | 1 | 350 | For testing the effect of different drugs / compounds / cytokines on survival / function of diverse cell types. | All biology and chemistry |
35 | Metabolomic facility (GC-MS, LC-MS, ICP-MS | 1 | 700 | For quantification of Metabolites | All biology and chemistry |
36 | High end Proteomics facility | 1 | 800 | For quantification of proteins | All biology and chemistry |
37 | Transmission electron microscope (TEM), with cryo-module and optional chemical analyses | 1 | 1580 | For analyzing biological samples at nano scale | All biology and chemistry |
38 | Scanning electron microscope (SEM) | 1 | 200 | For analyzing biological samples at nano scale | All biology and chemistry |
39 | High end cell disruptors (frequency based/ pressure based) | 2 | 40 | for disrupting cells, DNA and RNA molecules | For Biology department |
40 | Crystallization Facility (robot, accessories to store/manipulate crystals, crystals, and EM grids shipping equipment) | 1 | 100 | For producing crystal structures of proteins | For Biology department |
41 | X-ray home source | 1 | 600 | Diffracting protein crystals to solve structures | For Biology department |
42 | X-ray Photo electron spectroscopy with glove box | 1 | 950 | Surface analysis | Aravindan, Balaraman, Janardan, Jatish, Prof. Viijayamohanan |
43 | EPR | 1 | 400 | Analysing oxidation and spin states of metals | Pankaj, Sudipta, Balaraman, Arun |
44 | Resonance Raman | 1 | 200 | Metal-dioxygen adducts and other imaging | Pankaj, Aravindan, Balaraman, Janardan, Jatish, Prof. Viijayamohanan |
45 | CHN Analyser | 1 | 200 | Analysing all kind of samples | Most of the people at Chemistry Department |
46 | Stop-Flow kinetic instrument | 1 | 60 | Low temperature Kinetic Measurements, UV-VISible spectral measurements | Pamkaj, Sudipta, Arun, Soumit, Prof. Ganesh |
47 | HR-TEM/STEM with HAADF, EDX and EELS | 1 | 1800 | Internal structure, elemental mapping and EELS | Aravindan, Balaraman, Janardan, Jatish, Soumit, Ashwani, Prof. Viijayamohanan, Prof. Ganesh |
48 | ICP-OES/AES-MS | 1 | 200 | Elemental analysis | Most of the people at Chemistry Department |
49 | TGA-GC-FTIR | 1 | 100 | Thermal stability | Aravindan, Balaraman, Janardan, Jatish, Prof. Viijayamohanan |
50 | DSC | 1 | 50 | Melting and crystallization | Aravindan, Janardan, Jatish, Prof. Viijayamohanan |