Equipment
Animal Facility
Chemical Analyses Facilities
AAS – Atomic Absorption Spectrometers Unit
GC – Ion and Gas chromatographs Unit
Electrophysiology and Acoustics Facilities
- Audiology booth 120a3 (IAC Acoustics)
- Auditory workstation (Tucker-Davis Technologies):
RZ6 Auditory Processor, RA 4-PA Medusa PreAmp, RA4Li Low Impedance Headstage, BioSigRZ - Amplifier 5A (Geting instruments)
- Band-pass filter SR650 (Stanford Reserach Systems)
- Lock-in amplifier SR830 (Stanford Research System)
- Anti-vibration table 9100 (Kinetic Systems)
- Micropippete Puller P-1000 (Sutter Instruments)
- Underwater recording system: 8104 hydrophones, 2692 amplifier, 2250 sound analyzer (Bruel & Kjaer)
MICROSCOPIC FACILITIES
High Quality Petrographic microscopes and stereo microscopes with imaging
Leica Polarised Light Microscopy (PLM)
- Transmitted and reflected light microscopes
- Attached digital cameras for digital image capture
- Computers with Leica Microsystems’ software for petrographic analysis
Confocal Microscopy – 3D Confocal Imaging & Analysis
Molecular Biology and Neuroscience lab
- Microscope system DM6000B (Leica)
- Cryostat (Leica)
- Microinjection System: pneumatic pump, pump vacuum, motorised micromanipulator (WPI)
- Flow Cytometer
ROCK AND THIN SECTION, SAMPLE PREPARATION & MINERAL SEPARATION FACILITYies
- Rock saw (Cuts Diamont)
- Sieves and Vibratory Sieve Shaker AS 200 (Retsch)
- Agate mortar and pestles
- Drying oven
- Vacuum ovens (Shel lab)
- Muffle furnaces system (Carbolite)
- sampler splitter RT 100 (Retsch)
Thin Section and Mounds Preparation Unit
- Accutom-100 Precision cutting and grinding (Struers)
- Polishing Stage
- Logitech LP30 automated lapping machines
- Lapmaster 14 lapping machines
- Buehler Petropol polishing machines
- Buehler Metaserv polishing machine
- Buehler Petrothi
Sample Powdering Unit
- Jaw crusher (Retsch)
- Mortar Grinder RM 200 (Retsch)
- Mortar and pestles
X-Ray Powder Diffraction analysis (XRD) Facility
X-Ray Diffractometer Unit
