Fees

Lab, Equipment, or Service

Unit 

Price ($)

Molecular Biology Lab1

Day

13.00

Tissue Culture Lab2

Hour

25.00

Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer3 (unassisted)

Hour

36.00

Accuri C6 Flow Cytometer3 (assisted)

Hour

48.00

FACSJazz Cell Sorter4 (assisted)

Hour

60.00

FACSJazz Cell Sorter4

Hour

42.00

ABI 7500 Fast Real Time PCR Machine5

Run

40.00

Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer6

Run

13.00

Microplate readers7

Plate/Additional Scans

13.00/3.00

Leica DM IL Inverted Fluorescence Microscope8        

Hour

15.00

Liquid Nitrogen Cell Storage

Box/month

10.00

Liquid Nitrogen

Liter

2.25

Labor9

Hour

45.00

 45.0% surcharge for non-NDSU clients

NOTES:

  1. This fee covers the following pieces of equipment located in Quentin Burdick Building 316. The fee is $13/day/person. Clients must provide their own reagents and consumables to use the equipment. Only basic lab materials are provided (gloves, pipettes, pipettes tips, tubes, etc.)

    - DNA/RNA/Protein workstations
    - DNA/RNA gel electrophoresis system
    - Invitrogen/Bio-Rad protein gel electrophoresis systems
    - Bio-Rad Trans-blot systems
    - Life Technologies iBlot dry blotting system
    - ABI traditional PCR thermocyclersi
    - Bright FL1500
    - QIAcube
    - Nanodrop 2000C
    - DU-530 Spectrophotometer
    - Eppendorf Microcentrifuges
    - Table-top Sorvall Legend XTR Centrifuge
    - Heat Blocks, Balances, pH meter and Vortexes
    - Pipettes and multichannel pipettes
    - Computers equipped with FlowJo, Prism, Microsoft Office, BD Accuri C6 software, and ImageQuantTL
     
  2. This fee covers regular plastic consumables, VWR microscopes (bright field and inverted), cell counter usage, centrifuge usage, CO2 incubators, and cell storage. Media, media components, and reagents are not included.
     
  3. $36/hour if operated on your own and $48/hour if assisted by CBF. Cell strainer is NOT included in the charge.
     
  4. $60 per hour if assisted by CBF. $42 per hour if operated on your own. Must be certified by CBF if clients want to operate by themselves. Cell strainer is NOT included in the charge.
     
  5. This fee does NOT include qPCR plates, sealing films and qPCR plate preparation.
     
  6. Instrument only. Chips, reagents and consumables are not included.
     
  7. Biotek Synergy H1MF; the first scan costs $13/scan, and an additional scan from that plate will be $3/scan.
     
  8. $8/hour if fluorescence is not used.
     
  9. Labor charges for training, consultation, performing experiments, and data analysis.
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