Within UPSC, we have a number of climate chambers available for controlled environment studies. These include 7 “walk-in” climate rooms on floor 2 and 8 “walk-in” climate rooms on floor 3, within the new high security growth facility. There are 5 smaller controlled environment cabinets located on floor 2, and 5 new Percival cabinets have been installed on floor 3 (2 for in vitro culture and 3 Arabidopsis chambers for whole plant growth). The cold room on floor 2 is also available for growing and/or winter-hardening large (and small) plants.

 

These different controlled environment chambers and cabinets are available to all members within UPSC and can be set to a wide range of temperature and irradiance conditions to suit individual experimental requirements.

 

Organization

One 50% position (Britt-Marie Åkerman) has been set aside to provide basic services in this facility: such as record keeping, watering, fertilization and insect control. A steering committee (Vaughan Hurry, Hannele Tuominen, Ove Nilsson, Catherine Bellini & Alan Marchant) oversees the operation of this facility and helps to ensure all UPSC groups get fair access

 

 

Contact information

 

Steering committee

Hannele Tuominen

 

Staff

 

• General rules and access to the control environment climate chambers
• General rules and access to the Arabidopsis rooms and high security greenhouses  
• Procedure for Arabidopsis transformation using Agrobacterium
• Chamber Descriptions and Current Settings