Flow Cytometer

Tender description

The project aims to establish individual microbial impact on virulence and antimicro-bial resistance of intricate mixed communities. Metabolism is key to these interac-tions, yet the way microbes acquire and utilise nutrients is often overlooked in evolutionary studies of pathogenicity, virulence and antibiotic resistance. We will address this by quantifying how microbial community composition is determined by the metabolism, genetics and physiology of individual players. We require a flow cytometer as a means of quantifying each individual species within a mixed community. The system must be able to quantify the number of cells in the sample, and to detect different fluorescing proteins simultaneously (specifically, rfp anf gfp). The system must also have a small footprint and be easy to use.