
OUR SERVICES
OUR SERVICES
The Primorsky Aquarium Shared Equipment Facility (SEF) strives to provide high-end equipment and comfortable conditions for doing a range of research. Our specialists are qualified professionals and active researchers, having Candidate of Sciences (Russian analogue of PhD) degrees.
In addition to using our facilities and equipment by your own, you are welcome to order services from our specialists.
We are ready to offer the following services:
Services |
Equipment |
Horizontal agarose gel electrophoresis for separating nucleic acids |
- Liston A1110 Water Distiller - BioSan WB-4MS Stirred Water Bath - SevenCompact pH/Ion meter S220-Kit (Mettler Toledo) - ViBRA AJH-220CE Balance - IKA big squid IKAMAG white Magnetic Stirrer - Millipore Milli-Q Direct 8 Water Purification System - Bio-Rad ChemiDoc MP Imaging System With Universal Hood III |
Paraffin Section Preparation |
- ED 115 Drying and Heating Chambers (Binder) - Liston A1110 Water Distiller - ViBRA AJH-220CE Balance - HM 340E Electronic Rotary Microtome (Thermo Fisher Scientifiс) - E65D/230 Digital Section Flotation Bath (Thermo Fisher Scientifiс) - Medax Heating Table |
Cryo-EM (electron microscopy) sample preparation |
- ED 115 Drying and Heating Chambers (Binder) - Liston A1110 Water Distiller - ViBRA AJH-220CE Balance - Leica CM1950 Cryostat |
Freeze-drying (lyophilization) of biological samples |
- FreeZone 6 Liter Benchtop Freeze Dryer |
Mammalian tumor cell cultivation |
- BMB-II Laminar-S 1.5 NEOTERIC Laminar Flow Clean Bench - Sanyo MCO-18AIC CO2 Incubator - Beckman Coulter Allegra X-30R refrigerated benchtop centrifuge - Carl Zeiss Axio Vert A1 Inverted Microscope - LUNA-FL Cell Counter (Logos Biosystems) - Planer Kryo 360 Controlled Rate Freezer |
Phytoplankton sample analysis |
- Carl Zeiss Axio Imager A2 Fluorescent Microscope - Liston A1110 Water Distiller - Samsung RB37J5240SS Refrigerator |
Subculturing the clonal cultures of microalgae |
- SANYO MLS-3781L Autoclave - Liston A1110 Water Distiller - BMB-II Laminar-S 1.5 NEOTERIC Laminar Flow Clean Bench - ViBRA AJH-220CE Balance - Laboratory Glassware Washer G 7883 CD (Miele) |
Isolation of clonal microalgal cultures |
- SANYO MLS-3781L Autoclave - Liston A1110 Water Distiller - BMB-II Laminar-S 1.5 NEOTERIC Laminar Flow Clean Bench - ViBRA AJH-220CE Balance - Carl Zeiss Axio Vert.A1 FL-LED Inverted Microscope - Sartorius mechanical pipette |
Sample preparation for SEM (scanning electron microscopy) |
- Sartorius mechanical pipette |
Laemmli sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) |
- ED 115 Drying and Heating Chambers (Binder) - pH/Ion meter S220-Kit (Mettler Toledo) - ViBRA AJH-220CE Balance - IKA big squid IKAMAG white Magnetic Stirrer - BioSan WB-4MS Stirred Water Bath - Eppendorf Centrifuge 5427 R - Sartorius Mline single channel mechanical pipette (20-200 mcL, Item No. 725060) - Sub Cell GT Electrophoresis Cell (15x20 cm) - HV electrophoresis power supply (Bio-Rad) - Biosan MR-1 Mini-Rocker Shaker - Bio-Rad ChemiDoc MP Imaging System With Universal Hood III - Imaging workstation with gel image analysis software |
You can find the fees for the SEF services here.