Environmental Microbiology
Biology Labor:
- Sterile safety cabinets
- Facilities for the cultivation of aerobic and anaerobic micro-organisms (anaerobic tent)
- PCR, qPCR
- UV photometer, fluorescence spectrophotometer
- DNA database
- Phase contrast, interference contrast and incident light fluorescence microscopy with documentation equipment (incl. CCD camera)
- Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy
- Flow cytometer
- Microtome, cryomicrotome
- FISH
Services offered by our chair
- Determination of the influence of pipe materials on the biofilms and quality of drinking water
- Documentation, characterization and evaluation of biofilms in technical systems (biofouling)
- Investigations on the degradability of pollutants
- Isolation and cultivation of special organisms
- Use of the extensive strain collection of aquatic and marine bacteria
- Classical and molecular biological analysis of microbial biocenoses in technical systems (aerobic and anaerobic)
- Bestimmung der bakteriellen Vielfalt komplexer natürlicher Habitate
- Determining the bacterial diversity of complex natural habitats
