Isolate and investigate yet unknown microbes

ABOUT THE biodiscovery PLATFORM

The high-throughput cultivation and Biodiscovery Platform allows for isolation and investigation of yet unknown microorganisms. Subsequently, these can be used as building blocks for synthetic communities. The platform is geared towards strictly anaerobic microorganisms, but is universally applicable.

KEY SPECIFICATIONS
Location
Wageningen University & Research
Features
high-throughput cultivation, single-cell based, microfluidic cell sorting, microbioreactor unit, high throughput sample processing unit, anaerobic cultivation
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The Biodiscovery Platform is a single cell-based high-throughput cultivation and biodiscovery platform specifically adapted to the recovery of yet-uncultured strictly anaerobic microorganisms. In brief, it allows the design, construction and testing of defined synthetic or minimal microbial communities.

Defined synthetic or minimal microbial communities represent more complex natural microbial communities. In the future, they could provide important contributions to food safety and production, human and animal health, bioresource utilization and sustainable production of biobased chemicals.

The ability to assemble synthetic communities is often based on genome-predicted functionalities of individual microbial species. It depends on the availability of individual microorganisms either as pure cultures or – in case of strains not previously obtained in culture – physically isolated cells. 

The platform is specifically tuned to the discovery, characterization and utilization of strict anaerobes. It can, however, also be used for aerobic, microaerophilic and facultatively anaerobic microorganisms.

The platform comprises a central sample processing platform that provides high-throughput capacity for largely automated sample processing and storage for downstream biomolecular and metabolome analyses. For additional info, read the technical details below.

KEY SPECIFICATIONS

For more detailed information, view the key specifications of this platform below.

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