Equipment

Equipment

PHOTOSYN provides a comprehensive suite of state-of-the-art instrumentation and infrastructure supporting research in plant biology, photosynthesis and algae biotechnology.

Growth Systems for Plants, Algae & Cyanobacteria

  • Plant growth chambers
  • Cyanobacteria and algal growth chambers
  • Small-scale bioreactors
  • Multicultivator systems (MC 1000)
  • Photobioreactors (50 L, 65 L, and 1000 L PBR systems)

Photosynthetic Performance and Physiological Measurements

Advanced commercial and custom-built instrumentation for the analysis of photosynthetic performance in organisms and isolated systems, combining real-time gas exchange with spectroscopic and chlorophyll fluorescence approaches.

  • MIMS (Membrane Inlet Mass Spectrometry)
  • JTS-10 and JTS-150 (Pump probe and photocatalysis spectrometer)
  • 77 K fluorescence spectroscopy setup
  • Dual-PAM-100 (P700 & Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measuring System)
  • DUAL-KLAS-NIR (P700, Plastocyanin, Ferredoxin & Chlorophyll Fluorescence Measuring System)
  • Multi-Color-PAM
  • Fluorometer FL 3500 (double modulation fluorometer)
  • FluorCam – fluorescence imaging camera
    OLIS spectrophotometers
    FluorPen
  • AquaPen
  • Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR)

Analytical Chemistry Platforms

Robust analytical systems for metabolite, gas, and compound profiling:

  • High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) systems
  • Gas Chromatography (GC) systems, including Micro-GC
  • Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) is an analytical technique that combines gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to separate, detect, and identify different substances within a sample.

Core Laboratory & Support Equipment

  • Essential instrumentation supporting molecular biology, biochemistry, and protein work.

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