Laboratory

Our labs are located at the Irchel Campus in building 38 on the K floor. We have modern and spacious research laboratories equipped for synthetic organic chemistry and chemical biology. We also have several specialised laboratories and analytical facilities. A full list of our specialised labs and equipment can be found below.

Specialised laboratories and facilities

  • Cyanobacterial culture lab

  • Large scale fermentation facility

  • Dark room

  • Clean bench

  • Tissue culture lab

  • Giftgaslabor for toxic chemicals and gasses

Experimental equipment

  • Preparative HPLC (Shimadzu LC20-AP)

  • Large and Small Gloveboxes (Simens Braun)

  • Solvent purification system 

  • Water purification system (MilliQ)

  • Lyophiliser (Christ Alpha 2-4 LDplus)

  • Ozone generator

  • Peptide synthesiser (CS bio)

  • Microwave reactor (Biotage Initiator+)

  • High volume centrifuge

  • Cryogenic storage facility 

  • Gel electrophoresis

  • PCR machine

  • CO2 incubator

  • Thermo shakers

Analytical equipment

  • UPLC-MS (Thermo Dionex Ultimate 3000 + TSQ Quantum Ultra)

  • GCMS (Thermo-Finegan Trace GC ultra + Trace DSQ)

  • Analytical HPLC (Agilent 1100, with UV or ELSD detector)

  • UV-vis spectrometer (Shimadzu UV 1800)

  • Polarimiter (Jasco P-2000)

  • FT-IR spectrometer (Perkin Elmer Spectrum 2)

  • Micro plate reader (BioTek Synergy H1)

  • Optical microscope

Cyanobacterial culture

Peptide synthesiser

GCMS

Microplate reader

Preparative HPLC

Lyophiliser

UPLC-MS

Bio-Lab

Large glovebox

Microscope

Gel electrophoresis

Analytical HPLC