The Biodiversity and Molecular Biology Facility offers users a suite of instruments from sample preparation to quality control and analysis. These include a high performance homogenizer for cell lysis, an automated DNA/RNA extractor and a robot for liquid manipulation, instruments for DNA/RNA quantification, a Bioanalyzer to assess RNA integrity, PCR machines, a real-time PCR machine and a genetic analyzer for DNA sequencing and fragment analysis.

In addition to access to instrumentation, users benefit from technical support and advice from the facility staff trained in general molecular biology techniques, various DNA fingerprinting methods and qPCR.

The facility also offers expertise in microbial ecology with characterization of microbial diversity by bioinformatic and statistical analysis analysis of marker genes obtained by Illumina sequencing.