Microbioreactor (Biolector II)
Biolector II Microbioreactor
Device Description
The BioLector II Microbioreactor is a multi-bioreactor system suitable for microbial, fungal, and algal studies, with real-time biomass, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), and fluorescence evaluations for aerobes and anaerobes.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet KATI
LAB 113
- Enables fed-batch experiments under anaerobic conditions.
- Its airtight structure supports anaerobic cultivation with the BioLector II microbioreactor without the need to place it in an anaerobic chamber.
- Gassing with O₂ in the range of 1% to 100%
- Gassing with CO₂ in the range of 0% to 12%
- Ability to adjust gas consumption to a few mL/min
- Optional humidification of gases
- Development of feeding strategies and optimization of feeding rate
- Media screening and optimization
- Optimization of cultivation parameters
- pH profiling
- Strictly anaerobic and microaerophilic cultivations in batch and fed-batch modes
- Cultivations with high oxygen levels up to 100% and high carbon dioxide levels up to 12%
- Cell line and strain screening
- Synthetic and systems biology
- Statistical design of experiments (DoE)
- Growth characterization
- High-throughput protein expression
- Enzyme and cell activity assays
- Functional genomics
