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Facilities The research interests of the faculty and the instructional requirements of the program are exceptionally well supported by sophisticated instrumentation, including standard spectrophotometric equipment operating in the ultraviolet, visible, and infrared regions. Major instrumentation includes a system for proteomic studies including a maldi mass spectrometer, spot picker and 2D gel system; a triple quadrapole mass spectrometer with ESI and APCi sources and MS-MS capabilities; two nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectrometers, with multinuclear and solids capabilities; a Bruker Fourier transform EPR spectrometer, computer-controlled circular dichroism spectrophotometers; ultraviolet/visible light spectrometers; a light-scattering photometer; fluorescence-phosphorescence scanning spectrophotometers; laser Raman and FTIR spectrometers; and HPLC instrumentation. Specialized photometric equipment is available for monitoring slow, fast, and very fast chemical reactions using stopped flow, temperature jump, and pulsed laser excitation techniques. Laser equipment includes pulsed excimer, Nd:YAG, dye, and femtosecond lasers and continuous He-Cd and argon and krypton ion lasers. Other instrumentation is available on the campus for specialized quantitative analysis. Specific items include an atomic absorption spectometer, an X-ray fluorescence apparatus, a Technicon autoanalyser, an elemental analyzer, and instrument for radionuclide analysis. The Microscopy and Imaging Laboratory has two scanning and two transmission instruments. Within the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, there are a host of computational facilities. These include networked SUN workstations and file servers with a variety of shared software packages and an SGI Indigo-2 workstation utilized for molecular structure and dynamics calculations and molecular graphics. In addition, several researchers have extensive computer facilities devoted to specific problems studied within their groups. These include additional SUN and SGI workstations and Pentium PCs, as well as a multiprocessor SGI Challenge devoted to molecular dynamics computations and a DEC Alpha VAX, plus an Ultrix cluster of servers and workstations used for studying computer-assisted synthesis and design of novel molecules. The campus offers an IBM 4381 Model 14, a UNIX server-workstation network, and access to the UC San Diego supercomputer facility. Construction of specialized equipment is done with the aid of expert personnel in the machine, glass, and electronics shops at UC Santa Cruz. The San Francisco Bay Area also is a resource for a variety of instrumentation. Several instrument manufacturers maintain application labs nearby. The UCSC Science Library is a modern facility with an excellent collection of current journals and reference works. Several literature databases are available through the UC Library computer system and are on-line in most of the Chemistry and Biochemistry Department's offices and laboratories. Back issues of all the major journals are available, while more obscure source material is obtained through Interlibrary Loan or by fax from other UC campuses. Many journal articles can be viewed on UCSC computers. Monday through Saturday, students may travel to the UC Berkeley libraries via a jitney service that links the two campuses.
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The Chemistry and Biochemistry program's graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and faculty have offices
and lab facilities in two buildings - Sinsheimer Laboratories, which was completed in 1989, and the renovated
Thimann Laboratories. Both are located near the Science Library, which was completed in 1991. Construction of
the new Physical Sciences Building is entering the final phases. The department is expected to occupy its new
quarters in mid-2004.