Thompson Lab Instruments

To sign up for instrument time, please fill out the form at the bottom of this page. Please refer to the calendars below to make sure your preferred time is free!

Rules for using the CD and Plate Reader:

1. Use of either instrument is prohibited without a faculty member or member of Dr. Thompson's lab present.
2. ​Only graduate students and postdocs who have undergone training on the instruments are allowed to perform experiments unsupervised (rule 1 still applies).
3. All undergraduate students wishing to use the instrument must be accompanied by a graduate student that has been trained on the instrument AT ALL TIMES.
4. Users must supply their own cuvettes/plates, and you must clean up after yourself (put chairs, pipettes, etc. back where they were).
5. You must record your use of the instrument and all relevant details of your experiment on the appropriate usage form in the lab.

Questions? Please email cmpeterson@crimson.ua.edu or srtravis1@crimson.ua.edu

​Circular Dichroism Spectrophotometer

Please use the calendar below to sign up for CD time. Note that your own cuvette is required for usage.

Plate Reader

Please use the calendar below to sign up for plate reader time. Please make sure to note what kind of experiment you will be doing (absorbance, fluorescence, polarization, etc.).