Bioorganic Chemistry

Equipment

Up-do-date science requires up-do-date equipment.

The Elk Crew is truly able to multitask. In our labs we perform organic synthesis, grow our biocatalysts, purify them, perform the biotransformations, and analyse our reactions for chemical composition and enantiomeric purity. Our group owns not only a fleet of the latest analytical instruments, we also have access to instruments from other groups at the Institute of Chemistry. And only the best is good enough for our bugs. To ensure that they are growing happily and are productive, we have various incubators including all the machinery for cell harvesting and protein purifications.

High throughput screening robotic platform

Xavier is our robotic platform designed to perform biocatalysis related processes in an automated manner. For instance, among the processes that Xavier can carry out are colony picking and isolation, glycerol stocks preparation, overnight culture growth, protein overexpression, purification and quantification, culture lysis and harvesting, as well as setting, stopping, extracting and measuring activity assay reactions. Hence, Xavier helps our researchers to avoid tedious, repetitive and time-consuming tasks, while allowing them to work more efficiently, be more ambitious during the design of their experiments and use their time in more mind challenging activities.

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Xavier, the Elk Crew high throughput screening robotic platform

Analytical equipment

Biocatalytic equipment

Additional equipment at the department (general use)