Facilities

Ecology and Ecotoxicology

Facilities and expertise of the department include:

• Atomic absorption spectroscopy for metal analysis
• HPLC analysis of PAH, including soxhlet extraction
• A system of 11 fully climatized rooms (ecotrons)
• Standardized ecotoxicological tests and bioassays using various species of soil animal
• Tullgren extraction of soil columns
• Taxonomic identification of arthropods (European Invertebrate Survey)

Molecular Ecology

Facilities and expertise of the department include:

• MJ Research Opticon™ DNA Engine
• Elchrom Submerged Gel Electrophoresis System
• DNA Sequence analysis
• ML-1 laboratory
• Molecular Biology laboratory