Facilities
A broad range of synthetic biology tools and technologies have been integrated into an automated Design/Build/Test/Learn pipeline. Computational Design tools are available for pathway and enzyme parts selection through to construct assembly workflows.
Build instrumentation includes pipette and acoustic based high throughput liquid handling robotics for automated enzyme screening, pathway assembly, chassis engineering, and product extraction.
Equipment also provides automated colony picking, next generation sequencing and chromatography and mass spectrometry-based analysis. New fully integrated robotics platform for directed evolution and synthetic biology workflows.
HIGH THROUGHPUT ROBOTICS
The Centre has major robotics platforms for automated directed evolution and synthetic biology workflows
MASS SPEC ANALYTICS
A range of MS platforms for sensitive targeted chemical detection and untargeted metabolomics are available
ADVANCED MATERIALS RESEARCH
Rapid discovery and engineering platform for manufacture of Advanced Materials from Biology. We have partnered with the Royce Institute for Advanced Materials Research and Innovation for a new high throughput platform for directed evolution and synthetic biology protocols.