Our Facilities
Our Laboratories and Gear
In the geochemistry lab we have an anaerobic chamber for working with organisms under oxygen-free conditions.
The Microbiology Laboratory at the Institute of Ecology.
Located on the Second Floor of the Institute of Ecology at 159 Dornburger Straße in Jena, Germany our lab space conisists of a microbiology laboratory, sediment lab, chemistry lab, microscopy rooms, instrument rooms, offices, and various freezer and storage rooms. We are well equipped to perform both aerobic and anaerobic experiments under sterile and non-sterile conditions as well as cutting-edge molecular techniques and analyses.
Equipment
The following equipment is available for use in our laboratories or as shared resources at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena.- Bead beater for nucleic acid extraction, a gradient thermal cycler
- qPCR instrument
- Equipment to run agarose gels
- CBS scientific DGGE 1001system
- Gel documentation system
- Centrifuges
- Cooling microcentrifuge
- Hybridization oven
- Two epifluorescence microscopes (Zeiss Axioplan).
- Micromanipulator and picoammeter (Unisense, Den-mark),
- C/N- analyzer
- HPLC
- GCs
- TOC analyzer
- UV/VIS spectrophotometer
- Incubators
- Controllable climate chamber
