Equipment

Hydra Microdispenser

Robbins Scientific Hydra Microdispenser

Qiagen

Qiagen Biorobot

Paint shaker

Paint shaker used for high-throughput DNA extractions from maize (see Dietrich et al., 2002, Genetics 160: 697-716)

Thermal cyclers

Thermal cyclers used for genotyping over 3,500 DNA samples per "PCR cycle"

Microarrayer

Microarrayer for the production of maize "gene chips"

TGCE

Spectrumedix Temperature Gradient Capillary Electrophoresis (TGCE) instrument capable of detecting SNPs and IDPs in 96 DNA samples every 1-3 hours. See here for some detail images.

Cryostat

Leica Microsystems CM1850 Cryostat (Details)

Microtome

Leica Microsystems RM2135 Microtome (Details)

PALM

PALM® MicroBeam Laser Microdissection (LM) system. Check out our Laser Microdissection area for more info and images.

Spectometer

MassARRAY Spectometer is a scalable system platform to perform quantitative and qualitative genomic analysis (Details)