Secretariat

Supported by: Frauke Gesell

Greenhouse system

Three-room system with

(1) four greenhouse areas for normal use,
(2) five genetically modified greenhouse areas (S1), all of which can be air-conditioned independently of each other, and
(3) eleven walk-in, fully air-conditionable phytotron chambers, all approved for S1 operation,
(4) a constant climate room in the chair area.

Supported by: Martin Pullack, Andreas Aufermann and Rebekka Fresen

Cultivation and transformation of Arabidopsis halleri

Supported by: Iris Sandorf

Element analysis

We operate two ICP-OES devices (Thermo Scientific iCAP 6500 Duo and Agilent 5800 VDV) for the determination of (heavy) metals in plants, soils, etc..

Supported by: Petra Düchting

Radioisotope laboratories

Radioisotope laboratories for all common beta emitters, both in the Central Radioisotope Laboratory of the Ruhr University and in the chair area.

Genetic engineering work

Responsible person: Markus Piotrowski

Central scullery / autoclaves

Supported by Stephanie Lorenz

Central procurement

Supported by: Frauke Gesell

Central media kitchen

Supported by: Sabine Kleinhubbert

Agilent TapeStation

High-resolution automated electrophoresis of DNA, RNA and protein samples for the quality control of biomolecules.

Supported by: Sabine Kleinhubbert

Photography / Digital Graphics / Documentation

Supported by: Klaus Hagemann

Server

(1) Dell PowerEdge R610 Server
Processors: 2x six-core Intel Xeon L5520 @ 2.26GHz, 8 M Cache
RAM: 48 GB DDR3, ­1333 MHz
Storage: 2 TB

(2) Dell PowerEdge T620 Server
Processors: 24 processors, genuine Intel Xeon E5-2640 @ 2.5GHz, 15 M Cache
RAM: 512 GB DDR3, ­1333MHz
Storage: 33 TB

(3) Dell PowerEdge T610 Server
Processors: 2x six-core Intel Xeon L5520 @ 2.26GHz, 8M Cache
RAM: 80 GB DDR3, 1066 MHz
Storage: 7 TB

Supported by: Dr. Yogeshwar Vikram Dhar