Equipment hire

Access to our equipment requires a specialist training. We will provide the training you need to operate the equipment in the GEM laboratory and provide all consumables.

Robots

Although we would like to think all our equipment is robotic, these three machines actually look like robots. They speed up our work and are our trusting companions who never mess up the sample order.

Tube writer helps us to quickly pre-label hundreds of sample tubes (1.7 mL and 2 mL) and slides. Image — Tube writer helps us to quickly pre-label hundreds of sample tubes (1.7 mL and 2 mL) and slides.

DNA extraction robot can extract DNA from 96 samples at a time. Image — DNA extraction robot can extract DNA from 96 samples at a time.

Plate clean-up robot - helps to remove contaminants from samples that are 15 - 50 microliters in volume. Image — Plate clean-up robot - helps to remove contaminants from samples that are 15 - 50 microliters in volume.

Super sensitive

The amounts of samples that enter the laboratory are very small - we often work with no more than a coin-size piece of a plant or a poppy-seed sized spec of the microorganisms. Highly sensitive equipment is essential for quantification and analysis of very small amounts of sample.