Evolutionary and Historical Geobiology Lab
Exploring life and Earth systems through deep time
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John Deng (lab alumnus) preparing a sample on the XRF microanalyzer. |
Our lab is equipped with standard equipment for culturing and working with microbes, including incubators, freezers, walk-in cold storage, a PCR thermal cycler and gel imaging system, centrifuges, a combination fluorescence/petrographic microscope, a laminar flow hood and two fume hoods, an anaerobic glovebox, two large phototroph incubators, etc. We also have a Horiba XGT-7000 X-ray fluorescence microanalyzer. This instrument is capable of semiquantitative and quantitative imaging of the distributions of elements from Na to U on samples up to 10 cm x 10 cm with a spot size of 10 or 100 µm and detection limits to a few ppm. In addition, we have access to a variety of equipment in the Environmental Geochemistry Laboratory. | |
