Transformation Lab - Staff and Equipment

 

	Vladimir Orbovic Manager PhD Michigan State University orbovic@crec.ifas.ufl.edu
	Jeb Fields Lab Technician BS Horticulture, University of Florida
	Patricia Soria Lab Technician BS Botany, University of Florida
	QiongYing Liu Lab Assistant Nursing School, Hainan, China
no pic available	Kathleen Englert Lab Assistant
no pic available	Deborah Ciardulo Lab Assistant

Equipment

CCTF is located on the campus of CREC. The laboratory has standard equipment including:

• 3 laminar flow hoods
• Autoclave
• Sterilizing furnace
• Incubator
• Thermo-controlled shaker
• Zeiss microscopes including inverted stereo microscope and binocular microscope equipped with digital camera which uses SPOT software for fluorescence analysis

Plants and explants are kept in 2 new Percival reach-in growth chambers, and in a greenhouse certified for transgenic material.