Robocore

RoboCore offers access to laboratory automation for an unlimited number of different applications to assist customers with their research. RoboCore equipment and instrumentation includes  two state-of-the-art Tecan Fluent 1080 workstations, one equipped with single, 96 and 384 well pipetting as well as additional integrated equipment such as CO₂ incubators, plate reader and washers and one with small scale protein purification and DNA isolation/PCR capabilities. In addition we have several Tecan Freedom Evo workstations for liquid handling and automation of ELISA assays.

The workstations can be utilised for the following automated procedures:

• Cell-based assays
• Generic liquid handling
• Microtitre plate washing and reading
• DNA isolations from human blood samples
• DNA quantitation in 96 well plate format
• DNA normalisation and printing into PCR plates or tubes
• ELISA screening with commercial kits or custom protocols
• Sandwich ELISA development
• Aliquotting of reagents
• Other assays as required

We also offer analysis by surface plasmon resonance (SPR) in partnership with the Monash Fragment Platform to generate real-time data on the affinity, specificity, and interaction kinetics of protein interactions.

MADP and RoboCore platforms provides multiple levels of service for equipment booking:

• Assisted-use (staffed hours) a full service where specialist MADP/RoboCore staff will program and run all assays for customers
• Self-use (staffed hours) for those customers who wish to run their own assays with little assistance
• Self-use (non-staffed hours) for experts who have been fully trained and certified to independently run MADP equipment.

Please contact Hayley Ramshaw to discuss your project (Hayley.Ramshaw@monash.edu)

Download the RoboCore Flyer here