Automated Plate loaders for microscopes

[darren.thomson]

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Hello All,

Is anyone familiar with the market of robotic plate loaders for microscopes? For example, to image a library of fixed 96 well plates at the single cell level.
I've only seen Prior's PLW20 which can hold 20 plates and swap them out in 29 seconds. This is ~ £24k.

Thanks for your help,

Darren Thomson
University of Manchester

[Martin Kiesel]

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Dear Darren,

you can also have a look here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vt_DgS1IVk

I guess this device from märzhäuser is more stable than prior device, because of less movement.
We have experience with slideexpress also which is similar and this works well for us.

With Prior PLW20 we realized also incubation for live cell HCS.

Good luck with your project.

Greets,

Martin Kiesel
NIKON Instruments Germany



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Hello All,

Is anyone familiar with the market of robotic plate loaders for microscopes? For example, to image a library of fixed 96 well plates at the single cell level.
I've only seen Prior's PLW20 which can hold 20 plates and swap them out in 29 seconds. This is ~ £24k.

Thanks for your help,

Darren Thomson
University of Manchester