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Specialist equipment at the BioFoundry
Item Use
Labcyte Echo 525 acoustic liquid handler PCR and DNA assembly preparation, ultra-low volume organism dispensing, enzymatic assay preparation
Analytik Jena Cybio Felix pipetting liquid handler PCR and DNA assembly preparation, organism transformation, DNA/RNA extraction, enzymatic assay
Caliper SciClone G3 pipetting liquid handler PCR and DNA assembly preparation, organism transformation, DNA/RNA extraction,
enzymatic assay
Singer Instruments PIXL colony picking robot Colony picking from solid medium to liquid or solid
Agilent ZAG DNA Analyzer High-throughput DNA capillary electrophoresis
Beckman Cytoflex S flow cytometer Microorganism population analysis
Beckman Cytoflex SRT cell sorter Fluoresence-activated cell sorting
BioTek Cytation 5 multimode plate reader Microorganism population analysis, DNA quantitation, enzymatic assay, FRET analysis
BioTek Multiflo FX multimode dispenser Microplate dispenser and washer
Roche LightCycler 480 II  RT-PCR, 384 block, gene detection, expression, and variation analysis
Bio-Rad C1000 thermal cyclers PCR and DNA assembly, 96 and 384 blocks
Climatron plant growth cabinet Photosynthetic organism growth
Specialist equipment at the BioFoundry
Item Use
Labcyte Echo 525 acoustic liquid handler PCR and DNA assembly preparation, ultra-low volume organism dispensing, enzymatic assay preparation
Analytik Jena Cybio Felix pipetting liquid handler PCR and DNA assembly preparation, organism transformation, DNA/RNA extraction, enzymatic assay
Caliper SciClone G3 pipetting liquid handler PCR and DNA assembly preparation, organism transformation, DNA/RNA extraction,
enzymatic assay
Singer Instruments PIXL colony picking robot Colony picking from solid medium to liquid or solid
Agilent ZAG DNA Analyzer High-throughput DNA capillary electrophoresis
Beckman Cytoflex S flow cytometer Microorganism population analysis
Beckman Cytoflex SRT cell sorter Fluoresence-activated cell sorting
BioTek Cytation 5 multimode plate reader Microorganism population analysis, DNA quantitation, enzymatic assay, FRET analysis
BioTek Multiflo FX multimode dispenser Microplate dispenser and washer
Roche LightCycler 480 II  RT-PCR, 384 block, gene detection, expression, and variation analysis
Bio-Rad C1000 thermal cyclers PCR and DNA assembly, 96 and 384 blocks
Climatron plant growth cabinet Photosynthetic organism growth