Research technical equipment

• Rotor Gene 3000 (Corbett Research)
  ð      real-time PCR cycler, capable to detect four different dyes in one tube (sample) with virtually no dye cross-talk

• iQ Cycler (BIORAD)
  ð      real-time PCR cycler for 96 samples with gradient option

• CAS-1200 (Corbet Robotics)
  ð      pipetting robotic station, equipped with liquid level detection

• Abi 3100 Avant (Applera)
  ð      DNA analysis machine based on capillary electrophoretic separation with fluorescence detection (DNA sequencing and fragmentation analysis)

• King Fisher ML
  ð      Magnetic particle processor to automate nucleic acid and protein purification and cell isolation

• MilliQ gradient
  ð      standard wate purification system equipped with UV-module and Pyrogard-D; water has TOC levels below 5ppb and is DNase, RNase and pyrogen free

• Axon 4000B
  ð      two-laser DNA microarray scanner

• Slidebooster
  ð      DNA microarray hybridization station equipped with unique piezo-crystal mediated sample mixing during hybridization

• Biohazard flowboxes
  ð      standard microbiology safety cabinets class II.B

• Incubators (CO₂, shaker, ...)
  ð      standard CO₂ incubator with HEPA filtered enviroment

• Fluorescence inverse microscope with CCD camera (NIKON)
  ð      Inverse microscope with set of fluorescence filters connected to CCD camera and image analysis software enabling image capture, archiving and analysis

• Oriel halogen lamp housing with equipment
  ð      250W QTH lamp housing with filter holder, 90° beam turner, fiber bundle focussing assembly and VIS/NIR (420 to 2000 nm) liquid light guide fiber

• BioLogic LP (BIORAD)
  ð      low-pressure chromatography station with 254 nm and 280 nm detection module and fraction collector for e.g. protein purification

• ELISA equipment
  ð      microplate or strips MultiWashII washer and spectrophotometer for detection at 405, 450, 485, 550, 590, 650 nm

• Microplate luminometer LM01A
  ð      luminometer combined with spectrophotometer for bioluminiscence measurements

• Binary gradient HPLC (Shimadzu)
  ð      high-pressure binary gradient system equipped with autosampler, column oven and UV/VIS detector

• Micro/capillary binary gradient HPLC (Shimadzu)
  ð      high-pressure binary gradient system equipped with micro-column oven and Z-cell UV/VIS detector

• P/ACE MDQ capillary electrophoresis (Beckman)
  ð      capillary electrophoresis systém equipped with diode array detector (DAD)

• UV/VIS spectrophotometer Cintra 10e with thermocell (GBC)
  ð      double beam spectrophotometer with peltier thermostatted cells useful for measuring e.g. DNA melting or enzyme kinetics

• diverse laboratory equipment: centrifuges including refrigerated, thermocyclers (incl. those with gradient thermoblock), freezers, nitrogen storage bank, autoclaves, horizontal and vertical electrophoresis apparatuses, SDS-PAGE apparatus, blotting devices, PCR work stations, hybridization ovens, UV cross linker...

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