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Facilities


SPECIALIZED INFRASTRUCTURE AND SUPPORT EQUIPMENT


- LABORATORY FOR IN VITRO CULTURE
- 12 INCUBATORS FOR SEAWEED CULTURE (5-25 oC; 12:12, 8:16, 16:8 L:D)
- FULL RANGE OF MICROSCOPY EQUIPMENT WITH VIDEO AND PHOTOMICROSCOPIC CAPABILITY
- MEDIA PREPARATION ROOMS
- A CLEAN ROOM WITH TWO LAMINAR FLOW HOODS (CLASS II)
- 6 LIGHT - TEMPERATURE CROSSED GRADIENT TABLES
- 60 L MESOCOSMS (20) WITH LIGHT AND TEMPERATURE CONTROLS
- GREENHOUSE (24' x 36') AT UCONN-AVERY POINT
- NORI AND KELP OPEN WATER FARM CULTURE MODULES (NURSERY AND GROW-OUT SYSTEMS)
- SEAWEED RECIRCULATING AQUACULTURE SYSTEM IN CONJUNCTION WITH BRIDGEPORT REGIONAL VOCATIONAL AQUACULTURE SCHOOL.


ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT

- PERKIN-ELMER CHN-S ELEMENTAL ANALYZER
- PERKIN ELMER HPLC
- APPLIED BIOSYSTEMS THERMOCYCLER FOR PCR
- REFRIGERATED CENTRIFUGE
- PERKIN ELMER UV-VIS SPECTROPHOTOMETER WORK STATION
- NANNOPUR-DISTILLED/DEIONIZED REVERSE OSMOSIS WATER SYSTEMS (DNA FREE)
- LI-COR PHOTOMETERS WITH UNDERWATER AND SURFACE SENSORS
- HANSATECH PHOTOLAB III POLAROGRAPHIC OXYGEN MONITORING SYSTEM

A Perkin-Elmer HPLC system composed of Series 200 Pump, Series 200 Autosamples, UV/VIS Detector, Fluorescence Detector, and Diode Array Detector. The instrument is routinely used for amino acids and fatty acids analyses.

Picture:
Stefan Hariskov operating the Perkin-Elmer HPLC instrument.

 

Large seaweed tanks at Avery Point Laboratory used for controlled nutrient uptake experiments.
 
 
      
UCONN HOME          EEB STAMFORD          EEB STORRS Marine Biotechnology Lab
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
University of Connecticut at Stamford
Phone: (203) 251-8432
Email: charles.yarish@uconn.edu