Devices

Devices

Cultivation systems: 

  • Microplate readers (Tecan Sunrise, Infinite50),
  • Incubators (Biosan ES-20, Brunswick I26R, Infors Minitron),
  • Fermenters (8 x 1L BiostatA, 6 x 0.5 L QPlus Sartorius, 2 x 2,5 L Infors 1 x 15 L Bioengineering),
  • Photobioreactor (custom made, 25 L, Photon System Instruments),
  • Growth chambers (MLR-351H, Sanyo).

Sample downstream processing: 

  • Centrifugation (table top Eppendorf 5430 R, Eppendorf 5810 R, ultracentrifuge Sorvall™ WX+, ThermoFisher),
  • Freeze dry (SCANVAC, Labogene, Alfa 1-4LD, Christ),
  • Vacuum concentrator (Eppendorf),
  • CF1 continuous cell press (Constant Systems Ltd),
  • Bead mill (Retch).

Analytics: 

  • 1100 HPLC system & 6890 gas chromatography system,
  • UPLC system Agilent 1290 Infinity series,
  • Agilent 6230 TOF LC/MS system with electrospray ionisation,
  • Ion chromatography system (Thermo Scientific),
  • Agilent 6230 TOF LC/MS (Agilent Technologies, Germany),
  • Orbitrap Exploris 120,
  • FT-IR VERTEX 70 coupled with the HTS-XT microplate reader extension (Bruker Optik),
  • Langmuir-Blodgett trough (KSV-NIMA),
  • Spex fluorimeter (Jobin Yvon),
  • Hi-sens modular spectrophotometer Maya 200o (Ocean Optics),
  • Gas analysers (Infors HT, Bluesens),
  • Fluorometer Tecan Infinite200Pro

Devices for molecular biology tasks: 

  • RT PCR (Applied Biosystems),
  • MinION sequencer (Oxford Nanopore),
  • PCR thermocyclers (Thermo Fisher, Eppendorf),
  • NanoDrop (Thermo Fisher),
  • Capillary electrophoresis QIAxcel (Qiagen),
  • FACS easyCyte and Amnis ImageStream (Luminex),
  • Pipetting robots OT-2 (Opentron),
  • Fluent (Tecan).

Microscopy: 

  • Light and fluorescent microscopy (Leica, Olympus microscopes),
  • Inverted microscopes (Leica),
  • DM RA-2 confocal microscope (Leica).