a flexible and versatile High-Throughput Microbe hANdlerfor automation of complex experimental procedures

Microorganisms are often used as model systems to study complex processes and diseases. Large-scale experiments with microbes are also used to develop new drugs, or to generate superior industrial microbes. The success of a scientific project often depends on the ability to test hundreds and even thousands of cells, mutants or drugs. a highly flexible, high-throughput, state-of-the-art robot, custom-designed for the different experiments of each of the requesting research teams, allows to automate commonly used experimental operations, starting from the growing up step to final characterization, such as e.g. . antibiotic resistance, fluorescent measurements, etc. This will allow us to test our scientific ideas and hypotheses faster and more thoroughly, and generate more valorization opportunities. Finally, the requested infrastructure is very flexible and extensible, so that it can be easily integrated into new, as yet unknown experiments.