Replacement of floor centrifuge and rotor

在麦吉尔大学微生物学和免疫学系，研究人员共用昂贵的大型设备，如荧光成像仪、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。这些离心机的维修费用高得令人望而却步，因为它们已经超出了它们的使用寿命。因此，我部所有NSERC支持的研究人员提交了这份建议，购买一台配备高度通用转子的替代地板离心机，既能满足我们的应用要求，又能扩大我们的离心力潜力。选用的转子配有各种适配器，适用于大体积离心机、离心机过滤和微型板的离心机。我们的六个由NSERC支持的独立研究项目依赖于这些仪器来分离细胞、蛋白质和病毒，制备细胞膜和组织匀浆，以及DNA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.