Flow Cyto­metry Re­search Group

About our Research

Flow cyto­metry com­ple­ments the mo­lecu­lar bio­lo­gical tool­box to study mi­croor­gan­isms. Its ca­pa­city of fast ana­lysis of thou­sands of cells per second and the sim­ul­tan­eous re­cord­ing of mul­tiple para­met­ers makes flow cyto­metry a stand­ard tool in plank­ton re­search. In ad­di­tion, fluor­es­cence-ac­tiv­ated­cell sort­ing (FACS) en­ables the phys­ical sep­ar­a­tion and en­rich­ment of well-defined cell pop­u­la­tions without prior cul­tiv­a­tion. Read more about what flow cyto­metry is ⇒ here

In our group we con­tinu­ously im­prove our flow cyto­metry meth­ods and com­bine them with new mo­lecu­lar bio­lo­gical ap­proaches to gain deeper in­sights into the eco­lo­gical role of mi­crobes in a range of di­verse mar­ine hab­it­ats. Find out what pro­jects we are run­ning ⇒ here

Since April 2018 we are a Re­search Group within the De­part­ment of Mo­lecu­lar Eco­logy.

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