Sterilization of culture media/substrates by an autoclave at bamfield marine sciences centre

Bamfield海洋科学中心（BMSC）需要一个独立的高压灭菌器消毒器，用于广泛的主要研究人员，博士后研究员，研究生，访问研究人员，本科生和研究助理的多方面使用。BMSC由阿尔伯塔大学、卡尔加里大学、不列颠哥伦比亚省大学、维多利亚大学和西蒙弗雷泽大学共同拥有和运营。该高压灭菌器对于NSERC的基本发现研究项目至关重要，这些研究主要集中在进化生物学、入侵物种、鱼类生理学、神经科学、发育和生殖生物学、分子生物学、海洋生态学和保护生物学。该高压灭菌器还需要用于开发用于保健食品市场的海藻的应用研究项目。该高压灭菌器将使灭菌培养和海水介质，玻璃器皿，仪器和高压灭菌塑料分配器和容器。该高压灭菌器还将对BMSC大学计划部定期进行的分子生物学课程中使用的材料进行灭菌。重要的特点是高压灭菌器，是一个独立的能力，使用蒸馏水作为蒸汽源，足够的容量，以包含几个两升容量烧瓶和易于操作和维护。所要求的高压灭菌器取代了一台机器，该机器自1975年收购以来一直对大量研究人员进行的研究项目很重要，但现在已经无法使用。

A stand-alone autoclave sterilizer is requested for the Bamfield Marine Sciences Centre (BMSC), for multifaceted use by a broad range of principal investigators, post-doctoral fellows, graduate students, visiting researchers, undergraduates and research assistants.  BMSC is owned and operated by the Universities of Alberta, Calgary, British Columbia and Victoria and Simon Fraser University.  The autoclave is essential for basic NSERC Discovery research programs focused on evolutionary biology, invasive species, fish physiology, neuroscience, developmental and reproductive biology, molecular biology, marine ecology and conservation biology.  The autoclave is also needed for applied research programs on the development of marine algae for the health food market.  The autoclave will enable the sterilization of culture and seawater media, glassware, instruments and autoclavable plastic dispensers and containers.  The autoclave will also sterilize materials used on molecular biology courses periodically conducted by the University Programs department of BMSC.  Features of importance for the autoclave, is a stand-alone capability using distilled water as a steam source, adequate capacity to contain several two-litre volumetric flasks and ease of operation and maintenance.  The requested autoclave replaces a machine that has been important to the research programs conducted by large numbers of investigators since its acquisition in 1975, but is now non-serviceable.