About the laboratory - Equipment

Incubators & culture cabinets:
- Simulated in situ deck incubators equipped with light attenuation filters, prototype
- Laboratory incubator equipped with light attenuation filters, prototype
- Photosynthetron, CHPT
- Thermoregulated cabinets
- Thermoregulated illuminated culture room, prototype
- Thermoregulated light cabinets (-20°C - +60°C), Rumed GMBH
- Rolling device for aggregate formation, prototype
- Sedimentation column (SEDCOL), prototype
- Incubators for the study of biofilms in water supply networks, prototypes

Optical instruments:
- Spectrophotometer (Lambda 650S) equipped with integrated sphere, Perkin Elmer
- Fluorometer with integration sphere, Kontron
- Fluorometer LS 55, Perkin Elmer
- Spherical microquantameter US-SQS/LI, Walz
- Atmospheric and underwater light sensors, Li-COR
- Profiling Natural Fluorometer System PNF-300, Biospherical Instruments
- Light absorption and attenuation sensor AC9, WET-Labss
- Pulse Amplitude Modulated (PAM)Fluorimeter, Walz

Microscopy:
- Inverted microscope, Leica
- Epifluorescence microscope, Leitz
- Digital camera, Nikon
- Digital image analyser, Lucia 4.6

Molecular biology:
- DGGE Dcode-Kit, Biorad
- Thermocycler, Eppendorf
- Transilluminator UV HI/LO 302 nM 20 x 20
- Electrophoresis system mini-gel, I-MUPID
- Laminar flow hood RNA/DNA, Biocap

General equipment:
- Field salinometer and pHmeter
- Liquid scintillation counter, Packard
- Organic carbon analyser, Apollo 9000 Dohrman
- High temperature furnace, HC
- Autoclave, Systec 3870
- Laminar flow hood, ADS
- Laminar flow hood , CLF 475
- Ultra pure water system, MilliQ
- Thermoregulated centrifuge, Sigma
- Thermostatic bath, Polyscience
- Rotating table, Vel
- Filtration systems, Millipore
- Manifold filtration system for microbiological analysis
- Vacuum/Pressure Pumps, Millipore
- Peristaltic pump, Vel
- Thermos bottle for liquid nitrogen, Locator
- Ultrasonics bath and probe, Labsonic
- Marine snow catch bottle, prototype
- -80°C deep-freezer