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| | In addition to standard lab equipment and installations, here is a list
of items available to researches in the Fungal Ecology lab:
Plant growth facilities
 | Four Percival-Scientific Controlled Environment Chambers (E 30-B) with CO2 controls
and high light intensities |
| The lab also has its own all-season greenhouse (shared with Dr.
Callaway's group) located 5 min from campus. |
| There are several shared-use growth chambers on campus in the Natural
Sciences building |
Molecular biology equipment
| Eppendorf MasterCycler (gradient), and a second MasterCycler |
| BioRad microplate reader 3550-UV |
| BioRad GS Gene Linker |
| Western blotting system |
| Eppendorf microcentrifuge 5415D, other microcentrifuges |
| Power supplies, gel rigs |
| Digital precision pipetting equipment (Matrix multi-channel pipettors) |
| Shared access to equipment in the
Murdoch Molecular Biology
Facility (same building as lab), including capillary sequencer |
| Shared access to ultra-centrifuges, laminar flow hood, UV equipped walk-in
sterile room, 96-sample bead-beater and real-time PCR machines |
Soil science/ soil ecology equipment
| Our own autoclave (mainly for glomalin-related soil protein extraction);
several additional autoclaves available on the same floor |
| Wet-sieving machine (Kemper & Rosenau 1986; measuring aggregate water stability) |
| Microaggregate extractor (after Six et al.) |
| WhinRhizo (Regents Instruments, Quebec) scanner-based image analysis
system for root analyses |
| Low temperature incubator for in vitro cultures of AM fungi; access to
CO2-incubators |
| Microscope facilities: in addition to shared facilities we
have a Nikon E600 research microscope (brightfield), a Nikon stereomicroscope,
and a NTB-2B stereomicroscope (for AMF in vitro cultures) |
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