Hello biologists of our unit,
Last Friday, in our unit meeting, we shortly discussed about the possibility to modernize our local infrastructure, particularly the DNA lab, provided the Profi 6 application is successful. We are going to budget some money for this purpose in our proposal.
It has already been suggested that we should buy a fragment analyzer. It also has been suggested that our ABI sequencer should be updated and that some more climate chambers should be machined.
I am now asking for more proposals. What equipment would be critical to keep our labs fully functional? If you like to propose something, please also justify this need by telling what this equipment does, how many research groups will use it, and how expensive it is.
Note that this is a rare possibility to renew our labs. Also note that this does not concern small devices such as pipettes, and also not extremely expensive, such as some NGS platforms (Illumina etc.).
Best wishes,
Marko