Lab Automatization

With the know-how and equipment available at the department, a wide range of laboratory work can be automated and carried out with high throughput.

Established procedures are, for example:

• Screening of strain collections for polysaccharide producers
• Screening of enzyme libraries for activity, stability or substrate specificity
• extraction and purification of proteins, RNA and DNA
• absorptive and chromatographic separation methods in 96-well format (e.g. SEC or IMAC)
• enzymatic and chemical quantification methods, e.g. for glucose, pyruvate, proteins
• enzyme activity assays
• Enzyme kinetics
• Optimisation experiments, e.g. medium optimisation