Equipment
Our state-of-the-art facilities include:
- biosafety laminar air flow cabinets and chemical fume hoods
- standing, shaking, rolling mycobacterial culture incubators
- CO2 -wet incubator for eukaryotic cell cultures
- gel documentation units
- refrigerated centrifuges, benchtop micro-centrifuges
- stereo, compound, inverted microscopes with digital photography units and a networked computer
- 4ºC, -20ºC, -80ºC fridge-freezers
- ribolyser sample homogenizer
- PCR machines
- digital electro-transformation units
- ultra-sonicators and sonicator baths
- DNA, RNA and protein gel running apparatus
- semi-dry western blot apparatus
- spectrophotometers
- microplate readers
- HT-SPOTi mini robots (apparatus with multiple dispensing cassettes)
- autoclaves, dry oven and microwave oven
- ultra-pure Water System
- AKTA for recombinant protein purification