Labs and Equipment

The Biology Department has modern, well-equipped labs with the latest instrumentation. The Department has an aquarium facility, imaging room, instrument lab, electron microscope suite and a roof-top, state of the art greenhouse.

Our students have access to a wide range of instruments, including:

• Perkin Elmer Atomic Absorption Spectrophotometer
• Parr Instrument Bomb Calorimeter
• Beckman Coulter Avanti High-Performance Centrifuge
• Opti-sciences Chlorophyll Fluorometer
• Nikon Confocal Microscope
• Hitachi Scanning Electron Microscope
• Zeiss Transmission Electron Microscope
• Perkin Elmer Gamma Counter
• Bio-Rad Gel Imaging and Documentation Systems
• Thermo Scientific Histostar Embedding Center
• Thermo Scientific HPLC- Mass Spectrometers
• Incubators and Environmental Chambers
• Beckman Coulter Liquid Scintillation Counter
• Bio-Rad Benchmark Plus Microplate Spectrophotometers
• Microtomes and Ultramicrotomes
• Olympus Compound and Stereo Microscopes with Digital Cameras
• Leica and Nikon Inverted Microscopes with Digital Cameras
• Li-Cor 6400 Photosynthesis System
• Nanodrop and Implen Spectrophotometers
• Uvikon and Thermo Scientifc Spectrophotometers
• Thermal Cyclers
• Thermo Scientific Excelsior AS Tissue Processor