Infrastructure

High throughput flow cytometry performed by an analytical flow cytometer (FC) equipped with an autosampling device, is an important tool in the analysis of microbial populations and communities at the single cell level. The type of measurements and usage frequency require such an apparatus to be located within the building of use. At the Landbouwinstituut of KU Leuven, such an FC apparatus in currently available in two research groups and plays a crucial role in the research of several microbiology research groups. However, its availability is coming under serious pressure, as in one ...

Flow Imaging Microscope with 10 or 20x objective and respective flowcell (80 or 50 µm) to image and count micrometer sized particulates. Colour camera with shutter speed of 100 frames per second and 1920*1200 pixels. Flowrate 0,05-10 ml/min. Minimal sample volume 100 µl. Software: Visual Spreadsheet, allows to extract various paraemters such as edge gradient, transparency and aspect ratio.

StrainInSight® is a strain discovery platform that facilitates the search for novel bacterial strains to advance research and drive innovation in different sectors. The platform offers a private strain collection in combination with the StrainInSight Interactive Dashboard and the StrainInSight Genome Database complemented with Bio-IT expertise from PhD level scientists. The private strain collection, hosted at the UGent Laboratory of Microbiology (LM-UGent) is an untapped source of enzymes and pathways that can produce specialty ingredients, flavors and bioactive compounds. The ...

The platform allows a rapid and efficient isolation of bacteria from complex samples in a high-throughput setting with the possibility to customize all important parameters to end up with a unique set of bacteria for further development in the sector of interest. Included is a comprehensive strain discovery platform, StrainInSight®, that facilitates the search for novel bacterial strains via the StrainInSight interactive dashboard giving access to an extensive and diverse bacterial strain collection with data on identification, isolation source and geographical origin for each strain. In ...

NOLIMITS is a Core Facility for non-linear optical microscopy and spectroscopy, supported by both the Faculty of Sciences and Faculty of Engineering and Architecture. It serves the Ghent University research community and (non-)academic external partners by grouping over a decade of expertise and advanced infrastructure related to ultrashort pulsed lasers and the advanced accompanying optical spectroscopy and microscopy instruments. These tools support the most advanced materials research by diving into extremely short time scales (down to femtoseconds) and ultra-small length scales (down ...

The BD Rhapsody™ Single-Cell Analysis System is a user-operated platform that allows high-throughput capture of nucleic acids from single cells using a simple cartridge workflow and a multitier barcoding system.