Facilities

The Ryberg Lab has two primary laboratory spaces with distinct purposes. The Water Quality Innovation Lab is located on the third floor of the Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory (ABL), right next to the UConn Dairy Bar with views of the dairy herd on Horsebarn Hill. The Disinfection & Toxicology Lab is located on the third floor of Koons Hall, with beautiful views from its central location on UConn’s campus. 

Outside of these spaces, the Ryberg Lab has access to numerous shared resources. The most frequently used of these include the shared Tissue Culture Lab in ABL 310, an autoclave facility in ABL 324, a MilliQ Ultrapure water generator in ABL 217, several smaller pieces of equipment available on the 3rd floor of ABL, and the numerous UConn Core Facilities for access to advanced instrumentation, especially those at the Center for Environmental Science & Engineering.

The photos below show these lab spaces and a selection of the equipment found in the Ryberg Lab.

A three-floor tall semi-circle building looms in front, with a courtyard of green grass and a cement sidewalk. This is the Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory.
The Agricultural Biotechnology Laboratory, where the Water Quality Innovation Lab within the Ryberg Lab is located.
A photo of the lab bench space in ABL 313, specifically showing the larger pieces of scientific equipment. Tubes are streaming from bottles to various points within the instruments.
Half of the workbenches in the Water Quality Innovation Lab, specifically showing the larger equipment.
A photo of the lab bench space in ABL 313, specifically showing the fume hood on the right side of the photo. On the left side is a sink for washing glassware, with smaller scientific equipment nearby.
The second half of the workbenches in the Water Quality Innovation Lab, specifically showing the fume hood.
The SunTest XLS+ is a high-capacity solar simulator, allowing many samples to be irradiated simultaneously. The SunTest appears as a large aluminum box with beige sides and a large yellow compartment door that folds out toward the viewer.
The SunTest XLS+ is a high-capacity solar simulator, allowing many samples to be irradiated simultaneously.
A UV-vis spectrophotometer looms in the photo. It is modern looking, nearly all white, with a black accent piece for the 18-cell sample holder. A controlling computer is to its left, along with a small yellow rubber ducky.
This Agilent Cary 60 UV-Vis spectrophotometer is outfitted with the 18-cell multicell changer accessory, allowing numerous samples to be queued and run sequentially, saving students’ time and increasing productivity.
This Ocean Optics system appears as several white boxes. The smallest box is the spectrometer, with a gray cell-holder next to it, which has three ports for optic fibers. On the right are three larger rectangular boxes, which are the various light sources for the system.
This Ocean Optics system provides the Ryberg Lab a variety of capabilities. Our workhorse for full-spectrum radiometry, absorbance, fluorescence, and reflection spectroscopy measurements, it is a highly useful instrument for photochemical experiments. We also possess a fully calibrated light source, allowing in-house calibration.
The Thermo Vanquish Flex looms in this photo. It is a tall piece of scientific equipment, with black doors to the various steel-colored compartments. Bottles rest on top of the Vanquish Flex, with tubes streaming into various portions of the instrument.
The Thermo Vanquish Flex is a UHPLC system that the Ryberg Lab uses to quantify contaminants in water and indirectly measure reactive species via probe compounds. Our system possesses both a diode array detector and a fluorescence detector for quantifying a variety of chemicals.
The BioTek µQuant plate reader and the ELx405 plate washer are featured, both appearing as rather small and unassuming gray box-shaped pieces of scientific equipment.
The BioTek µQuant plate reader is used for absorbance-based toxicological assays, and the ELx405 plate washer greatly reduces the manual pipetting of these assays.
Exterior of Koons Hall, where one of the Ryberg Lab spaces is located. The building has 3 floors, a red brick exterior, and tens of windows stretching the length of the building.
Koons Hall, where the Disinfection & Toxicology Lab within the Ryberg Lab is located.
The Disinfection & Toxicology Lab is shown in this photo. It is a small lab, featuring a bench top to the left cluttered with equipment, and a biosafety cabinet to the right.
Housed in Koons Hall, the Disinfection & Toxicology Lab is a great space to conduct various biological experiments.
This photo shows the biosafety cabinet, with additional workbench space in front of a window.
The Disinfection & Toxicology Lab has a biosafety cabinet, a cryogenic storage system, a -80°C freezer, and an incubator.
This photo depicts the workbench space in the Disinfection & Toxicology Lab, which is filled with various pieces of equipment. This includes a spectrophotometer and an autoclave. The bench top is black, and the cabinets are blue.
The Disinfection & Toxicology Lab also has an autoclave, heated bath, electrophoresis system, and a UV-vis spectrophotometer.
The steps to the UConn Dairy Bar are depicted, with the ABL building shown in the background.
Within view of the ABL, the UConn Dairy Bar is the preferred venue to celebrate the accomplishments of students within the Ryberg Lab.