1. BioBench Contract Research Organization
Bio-Research & Development Growth Park at the Danforth Center
BioBench Contract Research Organization
Located at BRDG Park, 1st Floor
St. Louis Community College
Elizabeth Boedeker, Coordinator-Senior Research Scientist

2. Overview: What are we? Research for hire
Academic institutions
Local companies
RESOURCE
Additional training for our students
Internship opportunities within the CRO

3. Can We Help? General Molecular Biology Specialized Nucleic Acid
Protein
Cell Culture
Specialized
High end equipment
Available for use

4. Equipment – BioPlex
Specialized ELISA equipment – only 2nd one in St. Louis
5.5 mm polystyrene microspheres with 100 different bead signatures available. Can basically quantitate multiple signals within one well on a 96 well plate.

5. Equipment - Imager
Elchrom high resolution electrophoresis unit

6. Equipment – Sequencer/Fragment analyzer
Can do sequencing, as well as fragment analysis (STR);

7. Equipment - MACS QUANT
Cell separator (surface tags only, using magnetic bead technology) and flow cytometer

8. Equipment – EnSpire Plate Reader
Technologies
• Quad-monochromator
– Fluorescence Intensity (FI)
– Absorbance (Abs)
• Alpha-technology
• Ultra-sensitive Luminescence

9. Interns Successful placement out of CRO Past CRO interns
5 hired within BRDG Park
(3) Monsanto (Divergence)
(2) Phycal
1 hired Danforth
5 interns currently
BRDG Park
1 engineering student
Potentially 1 horticulture intern for fall
Right now we are paying the interns….

10. Thank You!
Thank You!