Replacement of floor centrifuge and rotor

在麦吉尔大学微生物与免疫学系，研究人员共用大型而昂贵的设备，如荧光粉成像仪、闪烁计数器、水系统和离心机。在过去的一年里，我们的两台地板离心机过期了。修理这些离心机的费用高得令人望而却步，因为它们已经超出了使用寿命。因此，我们部门所有nserc支持的研究人员都提交了这份购买替换地板离心机的提案，该离心机配备了高度通用的转子，既满足我们的应用需求，又扩大了我们的离心潜力。所选转子配有各种适配器，适用于大体积离心、离心过滤和微孔板离心。我们的六个独立的nserc支持的研究项目依靠这些仪器分离细胞，蛋白质和病毒，细胞膜和组织匀浆的制备以及DNA的分离和纯化。

At the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, McGill University, researchers share large and costly pieces of equipment such as a Phosphor Imager, a scintillation counter, a water system and centrifuges. In the past year, two of our floor centrifuges expired. The cost to repair these centrifuges is prohibitive, since they are beyond their lifetimes. Thus, all the NSERC-supported researchers of our Department submit this proposal for the purchase of a replacement floor centrifuge equipped with a highly versatile rotor that will both fulfill our application requirements and expand our centrifugation potential. The selected rotor equipped with various adaptors is suitable for centrifugation of large volumes, centrifugal filtration and centrifugation of microplates. Our six independent NSERC-supported research programs rely on these instruments for separation of cells, proteins and viruses, preparation of cell membranes and tissue homogenates as well as DNA isolation and purification.