The Bioscreen C Pro Automated Microbiology Growth Curve Analysis System directly measures microorganism growth. As microorganisms grow, they increase the turbidity of their growth medium. By measuring the turbidity of this medium over time, an optical density (O.D.) curve can be generated. The curve reflects the growth (increased concentration) of the organism of interest e.g. Aerobic bacteria, Anaerobic bacteria, Yeast, Mold, Microalgae, and Phage.

Bioscreen C Pro is a photometric microplate absorbance reader. It has a unique incubator which provides constant temperatures to all wells at a controlled temperature. This is essential for developing high quality growth curves. It has three different shaking modes: linear, orbital and double-orbital shaking. The operator can control the intensity of shaking in each mode. It has a sensitive reader that measures turbidity, a technique more sensitive than a spectrophotometer. The reader is equipped with wide-band filter plus three other filters to measure specific wavelengths. Two covered honeycomb plates may be run at one time, making it possible to run 200 samples simultaneously. Turbidometric measurements are made kinetically during the course of the run. Data is exported to a PC, and subsequently processed to generate growth curves, plotting O.D. vs. time.

Software

BioScreener Pro software is installed on a customer-provided PC (Windows 10). The computer communicates with the instrument to create experiment protocols and analyze results of the experiment. It can view experiments during the run, manage device settings, pre-heat or pre-cool the samples, view experiment status, pause the experiment, then download results. The touch screen allows you to bring up stored protocols, set up the experiment, look at experiment progress, and view needed information.

Honeycomb Microplate

The organism of interest and any growth medium are manually dispensed using a multichannel pipette into wells of a special honeycomb microplate. This 10 x 10 well plate is designed to provide a uniform temperature across each of the 100 wells in the plate. A fitted plate lid with special characteristics eliminates troublesome condensation and evaporation, which often interferes with O.D. readings with conventional 96-well plates.