Equipment

Fermentation Equipment

• Thirty-two 1-L fermentors
• Eight 14-L fermentors
• Four 60-L fermentors
• One 250-L fermentor
• Off-gas analysis
• Photo acoustic (one set of 8 fermentors)​
• FTIR (two sets, 8 fermentors each)
• Digital data acquisition

Shake Flask Cultivation Equipment

• Two Innova 4430 Incubators Shakers
• Three Certomat incubators
• Two constant temperature rooms
• Several New Brunswick shakers
• Capacity of one hundred 2.5-liter Thomson flasks

Analytical Equipment

• HPLC units with Waters Empower 2 and 3 software
• Ion exchange column chromatography
• UV/VIS scanning spectrophotometers
• Microplate reader/scanning UV
• Cooled CCD camera imaging system

Product Recovery Capabilities/Equipment

• Sharples continuous centrifuge
• Ultrafiltration devices
• Rotary vacuum filter (lab/pilot scale)
• Niro homogenizer for cell disruption
• Pharmacia FPLC system
• Pilot-scale chromatography columns for custom applications
• Crystallization (lab scale)
• Extraction (lab scale)
• Vacuum evaporation (lab/pilot scale)
• Niro spray dryer

Microbiology and Biochemistry Equipment

• Anaerobic chambers (for anaerobic microorganism culturing)
• Constant temperature shakers
• Constant temperature rooms
• Incubators
• Biohazard safety cabinets
• Laminar flow hood
• Autoclaves
• Centrifuges
• Ovens
• Water baths
• Lyophilizer (lab scale)
• Microscopes (Phase Contrast, Bright Field, DIC, Fluorescence)
• French Press
• Sonicator
• Bead beater

Molecular Biology and Microbiome Research Equipment

• Electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE, Agarose Gels, Southern blots, Western blots)
• PCR machines
• Electroporation
• Hybridization chambers
• UV crosslinker
• Biolistic particle delivery system
• QIAGEN TissueLyserII (96-well format)
• Several anaerobic chambers
• Microtiter plate reader
• Laminar flow hood