Core facility extracellular vesicles

Our lab is fully equipped with a state-of-the-art facility for the isolation, purification and downstream characterisation of extracellular vesicles.

The core facility is accessible to members of FAU – please get in touch with us should you want to have support.

Available instrumentation: Ultracentrifuge Optima XPN80 (Beckman) with rotors 32 SW and 45 Ti for EV isolation Äkta Start and Äkta Pure for EV purification Nanoparticle Tracking Analysis Zetaview Twin (Particle Metrix) for EV characterisation Cytoflex SRT (Beckman) for analysis and sorting of S2 bacteria Confocal laser scanning microscope (Evident) with FLIM/FCS module (PicoQuant) for cell and bacterial analysis Automated live cell imager FX (Lionheart) for high-content cell imaging

(Our large-scale research equipments FACS and CLSM are funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) – project number 511550821)