Standalone devices
Tecan SPARK Reader 1 & Reader 2 (Room 2.16)
Monochromator based microplate readers capable of measuring absorbance, fluorescence, fluorescence polarisation, fluorescence lifetime and luminescence. The readers allow shaking and incubation at temperatures >5°C above ambient temperature. They are also equipped with a CO2 gas control system, humidity chambers and a lid lifter to allow life-cell support of mammallian cell cultures. Microbial cultivations with extended shaking of microplates are not allowed on these readers.
external pageBook SPARK Reader 1 on IRIS
external pageBook SPARK Reader 2 on IRIS
Tecan M1000 Pro Reader 1 & Reader 2 (Room 2.16)
Monochromator based microplate readers capable of measuring absorbance, fluorescence, fluorescence polarisation, fluorescence lifetime and luminescense. The readers are equiped with injectors which can add chemicals to a microplate during the measurement. The readers allow shaking and incubation at temperatures >5°C above ambient temperature. Cultivations with extended shaking of microplates are not allowed on these readers.
Microbioreactor M2P Labs Biolector (Room 2.16)
The BioLector is a bench top microbioreactor system to perform suspension cultures of bacteria or yeast under controlled environmental conditions (CO2, O2, temperature) with high gas transfer rates in 48-well microplates. It includes an optical filter based detection system capable of measuring biomass, fluorescence (GFP, RFP) and FRET (CFP/YFP) which can also be used to provide optogenetic inputs to the cultures up into the infrared range. By use of specialized microplates additional fermentation parameters like pH and dissolved oxygen can be monitored.
Luminex MagPix (2.16)
The external pageMagpix system is a magnetic bead-based ELISA platform for that allows multiplexed quantification of proteins, RNA, and DNA. Up to 50 different targets can be analyzed in each sample simultaneusely and in a variety of sample matrices. The reactions are prepared in 96-well plates which can be automatically loaded and analyzed in the machine. The instruments uses a CCD camera to quantify different fluorescences on size- and fluorescence-barcoded magnetic beads. Luminex assay kits vith various panels of analytes can be purchased from multiple vendors or users can create their own custom assay plates.
