Capabilities

By Coral Microbial Ecology Laboratory

Capabilities and key instrumentation at the Coral Microbial Ecology Laboratory.

Capabilities

Deep-sea sample collection
Coral sample collection
Water sample filtration (various)
Classic microbiology
Molecular biology
16S rRNA amplicon surveys
Metagenomics
Bioinformatics

Key Instrumentation

Standard and gradient Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) thermal cyclers
Epifluorescent microscope equipped with camera
Gel electrophoresis systems
Warm and cold shaking incubators for microbial cultivation
Tangential Flow Filtration (TFF) system
Ultra freezer