Advanced Equipment
The The Maurice and Vivienne Wohl Institute for Drug Discovery unit offers a collection of industry-standard instruments to enable miniaturization and automation of most biological assay systems.
Many of these devices can be operated in stand-alone or in integrated automation platforms to allow runs of several plates to hundreds of plates.
HTS 1 (large scale screening system)
This system includes:
- Thermo Spinnaker Robot
- BMG Pherastar FS plate reader
- Agilent Bravo liquid handler
- Biotek EL406 plate washer
- BNX 1536 plate washer
- Thermo Combi dispenser (2 units)
- Thermo C10 hotel (250 plate ambient storage)
- Liconic STX 220 (220 plate incubation)
- Bluecatbio Blue washer
- CertusFlex dispenser
HCS (automated microscopy and imaging)
This system includes:
- HiRes Acell robot arm
- Molecular Devices ImagExpress confocal microscop
- TTPlabtech Acumen scanning cytometer
- Liconic STX 44 (44 plate incubation)
- IncuCyte - real-time live cell imaging and analysis
CM 1 (assay plate preparation)
This system includes:
- Labcyte Access robot arm
- Labcyte Echo 555 acoustic liquid handler; 2 units
- Thermo Cytomat C24 (500 plates incubator)
- Thermo Cytomat 6002 (250 plates dry storage)
- Agilent Vspin plate centrifuge
- Agilent Plateloc plate sealer
- Brooks Xpeel plate peeler
CM 2 (library plate management)
This system includes:
- HiRes Acell robot arm
- Agilent Bravo liquid handler
- HiRes centrifuge
- Agilent Plateloc plate sealer
- Agilent Vcode barcode printer
- HiRes nanoserve (labware storage)
- HiRes picoserve (48 plate storage)
XL 100 (compound dissolving and vial management)
This system includes:
- Biomicrolab balance
- Biomicrolab vial-handling gripper
- Tecan single channel liquid handler
Stand-alone instruments
The instruments are
- Pherastar FS Offline (plate reader)
- GNF WDII (Plate washer and dispenser)
- Thermo Combi dispenser
- Luminex (multiplex reader)
- CertusFlex Liquid dispenser
- IncuCyte - real-time live cell imaging and analysis