FACILITIES
Biodiscovery Platform
Isolate, investigate and discover yet unknown microbes and communities in a high-throughput way.
Modular Bioreactor Platform
Mix and match different bioreactors to investigate sustainable microbiological solutions for environmental challenges.
Parallel Cultivation Platform
Cultivate and investigate a wide array of microbial communities in extremely well-defined conditions.
FAIR Data Platform
Make sure your data is Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (= FAIR) in collection, storage and analysis.
NEWS & VIEWS
Take a virtual tour around the UNLOCK facilities
Get to know our team and the unique features of the UNLOCK research facilities in Wageningen and Delft.
UNLOCKtober has arrived!
What is UNLOCKtober? Throughout the month of October, we are going on an exciting adventure…
UNLOCK Symposium: registration is now open
We are thrilled to invite you to the first UNLOCK symposium. Register now for free!
Vacancy: Post-doc researcher for UNLOCK large-scale research infrastructure
Will you be our new team member? Check out this vacancy at the UNLOCK bioreactor cultivation facility in the TU Delft laboratory.
New publication: The FAIR Data Station
Researchers from our FAIR Data Platform published a paper on the FAIR Data Station: A platform that helps you to manage your research metadata according to the FAIR principles.
Event: Looking for key partners!
Planning to do research on microbial communities? You might want to consider UNLOCK in your next project.
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PEOPLE SUPPORTING UNLOCK
"I am very confident that UNLOCK will provide an integrated world‐class facility that will greatly impact the world's main international research quests."
Madalena Alves
President of Board of Directors at FCT (Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science Research and technology) and Professor at the University of Minho, Portugal
“The revolutionary advances of Biology in the last decades were due to the introduction of novel quantitative measurement methods and improved experimental design. Unlock offers this opportunity now to Microbial Ecology: further facilitating its development from a descriptive to a predictive science.”
Frank Bruggeman
University Research Chair Interdisciplinary Life Sciences Systems Biology Lab, Amsterdam Institute of Life and the Environment (A-LIFE) Section Head Systems Biology Lab; Management team A-LIFE Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
"The novel opportunities offered by UNLOCK will enable us to develop highly efficient and sustainable applications for water treatment. We therefore enthusiastically support the implementation of UNLOCK."
Jeroen Rijnhart
Centre of Expertise Watertechnology
"Being able to cultivated and preserve mixed microbial communities, together with their molecular characterization and the improved access to their data, will open up new avenues for basic and applied life sciences."
Jörg Overmann
DSMZ
"I expect that we and the research groups and companies we collaborate with will greatly benefit from direct use of this facility and of its outcomes."
Gertjan Medema
Chief Science Officer KWR, principal microbiologist
"The UNLOCK experimental and data platform will facilitate remarkable insights into untapped microbial resources, with the potential to lead to disruptive changes across a broad range of scientific fields and industries."
Paul Cotter
Teagasc
"Through its integrated approach, UNLOCK involves the unprecedented combination of cultivation and characterisation for tapping into the extensive resources of microbial consortia. It is a truly uniquely approach which will undoubtedly lead to ground-breaking discoveries in microbiology in the future."
Paul Wilmes
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine