Beckman Coulter Cytomics FC500: This flow cytometer is an automated tube-based acquisition system equipped with CXP Analysis 2.1 software. Excitation using 488 nm or 633 nm lasers (single laser system) or both (dual laser system) is possible. Ten thousand events are normally recorded per sample and detected by customized photomultiplier tubes (PMTs). Five colours can be analysed using the FC500, which are recorded in 5 different channels (FLs) depending on the colour detected.
Spectrophotometers, fluorometers and luminomiters: Our general post-graduate lab has several different multiwell plate readers that are used for end-point and/or kinetic colourimetric, fluorometric and luminescence assays that do not require image analysis.