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One of the goals of the network is to promote collaboration and sharing of Nordic capital – both intellectual and material – between the participating laboratories. Here are listed the specific equipment and facilities available in participating laboratories. If you are interested of utilizing these resources, please contact respective group leaders.

Aarhus

• DNA laboratory with quantitative PCR and protein expression equipment.

• Drosophila lab and temperature rooms.

• Access to fieldstation at Rønbjerg.

Helsinki

• The MES-laboratory is equipped with facilities for various types of molecular biological methods including DNA extraction, PCR, cloning, agarose and starch gel electrophoresis, automated sequencing, microsatellite-genotyping and SNP-genotyping.
  (http://www.helsinki.fi/bioscience/mes/)

• Access to DNA sequencing and Genomics laboratory, Protein Chemistry laboratory, The Electron Microscopy Unit and The Finnish National Biological NMR.
  (http://www.biocenter.helsinki.fi/bi/introduction.htm).

• Access to well equipped and manned field stations in different parts of Finland (Kilpisjärvi, Lammi, Tvärminne).

• Aquaculture facilties.

Holar College

• Fish breeding and experimentation facilities.

Silkeborg

• Ecophysiology laboratory with large climate rooms, programmable freezing cabinets. Permanent cultures of various soil invertebrates available (earthworms, springtails). HPLC and TLC apparatus for analysis of small organic compounds (sugars, polyols, amino acids etc.).

• Laboratory with all necessary equipment for ecotoxicological studies of terrestrial invertebrates. Equipment for analysis of heavy metals (AAS, flame and graphite furnace).

Uppsala

• Molecular biology laboratory (ABI 310, access to ABI 377)

• Six 1.6 * 1.6 m aquaria fitted with UV-B and greenhouse lamps for performing experiments with UV-B radiation

• Large climate rooms for experiments demanding extensive space (both freshwater and terrestrial facilities)