Techniques applied at the group of Bioanalytics and Microanalytical Systems

Separation and concentration techniques:

• Crossflow Filtration (ultra- and microfiltration)
• Immunomagnetic Separation
• Monolithic Affinity Filtration
• Monolithic Ion Chromatography

Analytical Microarrays:

• Protein microarrays (e.g. detection of microorganism, proteotoxins)
• DNA microarrays (e.g. detection of microorganism, viruses, eucaryotic cells)
• Hapten microarrays (Detection of small organic molecules)
• Chemiluminescence imaging Flow-based microarray analysis platform (MCR3)
• Surface chemistry with PEG hydrogels Microarray production (contact microarrayer, BioRad; Ink Jet, GeSIM )

Reference Analytics at IWC

• Mass spectrometry (Orbitrap)
• HPLC
• GC
• Raman Spectroscopy
• Fluorescence Spectroscopy
• UV-VIS Spectroscopy
• IR Spectroscopy

Microbiology and Molecular Biology:

• Real-Time PCR (Lightcycler 480, Roche) for bacteria and viruses
• Colilert 2000 (IDEXX) for quantification of E. coli and Coliforms
• Membran filtration and selective cultivation (Bio 2)
• Flow Cytometry for bacteria quantification