Biospectroscopy & Microbiology Laboratory
The Biospectroscopy & Microbiology Laboratory contains instrumentation for advanced vibrational spectroscopy and microbial cultivation.
The vibrational spectroscopy instrumentation consists of eight principal units:
- Bruker VERTEX 70 Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer, with room temperature DLaTGS detector and liquid nitrogen cooled MCT detector
- Bruker HYPERION 3000 Infrared Microscope, with 36x and 15x transmission/reflection objectives and 20x Ge-ATR objective, liquid nitrogen cooled MCT and FPA detectors, and computer-controlled x-y stage
- Bruker HTS-XT microplate accessory for high-throughput screening FTIR, with detector for transmission measurements of 96 and 384 wellplates
- WITec alpha300R Confocal Raman Microscope, with 785 nm excitation laser (125 mW), 10x, 50x and 100x objectives, NIR imaging spectrometer with CCD camera, and computer-controlled x-y stage
- Bruker MATRIX-MF Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer, with liquid nitrogen cooled MCT detector and two diamond ATR fiber optic probe
- Bruker MultiRAM Fourier Transform Raman Spectrometer, with Nd:YAG excitation laser (1 W, 1064 nm), high-throughput screening mapping stage for measurements of 96 wellplates, and Raman fiber optic probe
- Specac Golden Gate Mk II ATR accessory for temperature-dependent FTIR, with heated diamond top-plate, ZnSe lenses, and temperature controller
- Bruker ALPHA II Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometer, with DTGS detector and universal sampling module.
The lab also contains one gas chromatograph:
- Agilent 7820A GC system, with FID detector
The instrumentation for microbial cultivation:
- Leica DM6 B microscope
- SPECTROstar Nano UV/visible microplate spectrophotometer
- Two Infors HT Minifors 2 bioreactors
- Kuhner Shaker X Climo-Shaker ISF1-X shaking incubator
- Three Thermo Scientific MAXQ 4000 shaking incubators
- Three VWR INCU-line 68R incubators
- Brunswick Innova 42R shaking incubator with photosynthetic light bank
- Duetz-MTPS 24, 96 square polypropylene deep well plates
- HERMLE Z326K centrifuge
- HERMLE Z32HK centrifuge
- Metler Toledo Education Line EL20 pH meter
- Bertin Technologies Percellys Evolution tissue homogenizer
- LABCONCO FREEZONE 2,5 freeze-dryer
- ThermoScientific Speedvac SPD121P-230 vacuum concentrator with Savant RVT100 refrigerated vapor trap and Edwards RV5 vacuum pump
- Two Labofort KNF N86 vacuum pumps
- NUAIRE NU-477-600E laminar box
- Countess 3 automated cell counter
- Certoclav Labor CV-EL 12ii18L autoclave
- Two Tuttnauer 3870 ELV autoclave
- Grant TC120 water bath
- Grant SUB14 water bath
- VWR USC300T ultrasonic bath
- Sonics Vibra cell sonicator
- Two VWR 444-1372 test tube shakers
- Termaks TS 8056 drying oven
- Stuart SBH130D/3 block heater
- Santorius Practum 224-1S analytical balance
- AEADAM PGW253i analytical balance
- PRECISION SE1202 balance
- LLG uniSTIRRER 3 agitator
- Benchmark H3760-HSE hotplate stirrer
- PORKKA KF85 ice maker
- Miele Professional G7883 laboratory glassware washer