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Webinars
Tips and Tricks for Performing Phenotypic Microbial Identification
Join our webinar to learn about:
– Advantages of phenotypic identification, and how it can complement other methods
– The whole workflow, from starting a culture to getting your report
– Specific tips for working with aerobic bacteria, anaerobes, yeasts, and filamentous fungi
– Instrument options for any throughput
– Avoiding common pitfalls with identifying microbes
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High-throughput Characterization of Fungal Pathogens and Monitoring Phenotypic Drift in Bacteria
ATCC, a leading supplier of authenticated biological materials, is partnering with Biolog, Inc. to monitor phenotypic drift in bacterial strains as well as characterize WHO listed fungal pathogens. Understanding the phenotypic profile of a given microbe is key to contextualizing the results of any study. Here, we generated baseline phenotypic profiles for eleven fungal pathogens recognized by the WHO to be of special concern in the global health community and common production and research strains of bacteria. To investigate the occurrence of phenotypic drift in laboratory and production strains we then simulated years of passages while monitoring for changes in each organism’s phenotypic profile. Once phenotypic drift was captured, affected generations were then sequenced to ascertain the occurrence of mutations within each strain. This study demonstrated that high-throughput phenotypic screening is a valuable tool for characterizing strains and monitoring phenotypic instability due to genetic changes due to passaging, highlighting the importance of using authenticated strains and minimizing passaging for reliable bioproduction and experiment.
Microbiome Research Streamlined with Phenotypic Characterization using PreBioM Plates
Join us as we unveil the power of prebiotics with Biolog’s PreBioM plate line. This webinar explores how PreBioM plates, Biolog’s newest tool for cellular characterization containing a wide range of pre-plated prebiotic substrates, from simple sugars to dietary fibers, can accelerate microbiome research.
We will explore:
– The complexities of the gut microbiome, and the current state of the field.
– Insights into the analysis of individual isolates as well as microbial communities.
– Methods to analyze the rich kinetic growth and metabolism data that can be obtained from these plates.
– Leveraging PreBioM plates to compare phenotypic profiles of pathogenic and probiotic E.coli strains.
– Differential utilization of prebiotic substrates by bacterial strains under aerobic and anaerobic conditions pertinent to gut microbiome research.
Studying microbial communities: a review of EcoPlate use cases and the newest community analysis features in Odin Software.
With three decades of use and over 1,400 published papers, Biolog’s EcoPlates have become a well-established and powerful method for evaluating the functional diversity of microbial communities. EcoPlates can be used to characterize functional traits of microbial populations from soil or water, for example, under either aerobic or anaerobic conditions. This facilitates the quantification of the metabolic capabilities of microbial communities across any natural or perturbed environment. This webinar will describe recent publications where EcoPlates have been employed in top-down and bottom-up approaches to answer questions in basic and applied microbial ecology. We will also review the new Community Analysis features in Odin software, inspired by EcoPlate users. Incorporating the richness of kinetic data obtained with the Odin family of instruments, this platform provides an ideal method for understanding the metabolic profiles of microbiome samples, and how diverse populations can change over time and with various treatments.
Introducing Odin VIII for Comprehensive Phenotypic Characterization and Microbial ID
Phenotypic analysis allows you to quantitatively assess effects of genomic changes on the functional properties of microbes or cells. Odin™ Platform is the all-in-one system for generating kinetic data to analyze growth and metabolism of cells grown under thousands of conditions at the same time. Odin VIII, Biolog’s latest and more compact member of the family, now enables the same methodology using Biolog’s chemistry panels with pre-selected substrates and inhibitors, for researchers with mid-throughput requirements. With the ability to incubate and monitor the growth and metabolism of up to 8 plates at a time, we will discuss how Odin VIII can provide valuable insights into cellular physiology for a range of important applications.
From microbial identification to metabolic characterization for:
– academic researchers
– sustainable agriculture labs characterizing microbiome communities
– fermentation and bioprocessing groups working on optimizing conditions and QC methods for production strains
Reveal your microbes with phenotypic identification.
We discuss how microbial identification can be challenging especially when considering the variety of organisms one may encounter in the environment.
We review Biolog’s solutions to identify thousands of aerobes, anaerobes, yeast, and filamentous fungi.
Advantages of multiomic microbial identification.
We cover multiomic identification: unveiling the identities of bacteria, yeast, and fungi from all angles.
Genotypic Analysis: Deciphering genetic codes with Sanger DNA Sequencing. Sequencing of ribosomal RNA regions of bacteria and fungi.
Proteotypic Profiling: Exploring protein landscapes through Bruker MALDI-TOF. Analysis of ribosomal proteins.
Phenotypic Insights: Odin’s lens into microbial behaviors. Analysis of biochemical reactions, acids and salt tolerance, metabolism, fermentation, etc.
We review Biolog’s solutions to identify thousands of aerobes, anaerobes, yeast, and filamentous fungi.
Unveiling Environmental Microbial Mysteries: Harnessing the Phenotypic Approach
Biolog’s phenotypic method allows researchers to observe and quantify the metabolic capabilities of environmental microbial communities in a plethora of different environments: soil, water, plant, human-associated and engineered ecosystems. With an easy-to-use protocols, EcoPlates, Phenotype MicroArrays and Identification test panels could be effectively employed to define the functional traits of bacterial and/or fungal populations in both aerobic and anaerobic settings.
This webinar will show how Biolog’s approach works with complex microbial communities, what type of data it can generate and how it could complement metagenomics dataset and add the additional insights with the use of the fully automated Odin instrument. The presentation will also show key case studies where the Biolog technology has been used in the evaluation of environmental health, sustainable agriculture and soil management and even show some non-standard use of this flexible phenotypic tool.
Unlocking Microbial Genetics: Leveraging Phenotyping for Comprehensive Analysis
Learn more about the power of phenotyping to further characterize your microbes. Explore how correlating genetic differences with thousands of cellular phenotypes can more precisely characterize microorganisms.
In this webinar, learn how phenotyping enables:
– Correlation of functional traits with genotypes
– Determination of metabolic and chemical sensitivities
– Elucidation of drug sensitivity and susceptibility
– Optimization of cell lines and bioprocess culture conditions
– Characterization for taxonomic or epidemiological studies.
Whether you conduct experiments in your lab using Odin, or let our Lab Services team do the characterization and identification for you, uncover how this approach can revolutionize your microbial analysis.
Biolog for Fungal Identification
Lab Services now offers a customized approach to challenging filamentous fungal ID.
With our novel method for subculturing, sample lysis and proprietary media that reduces contamination risk, we can now:
– effectively prepare the fungal samples
– ensure quick, effective, and accurate sample identification
– all in an average of 3 business days, or as fast as next day
Elucidating Metabolic Networks in the Tumor Microenvironment
Costas Lyssiotis, PhD, and his team have been studying pancreatic tumors and provided foundational work describing autonomous reprogramming of metabolic processes in the cancer cells that facilitates their survival and growth under these challenging circumstances. Pancreatic cancer cells also work cooperatively with non-cancer cells in the tumor microenvironment through the exchange of growth factors, signaling molecules and metabolites.
Rapid Microbial Identification with MALDI-TOF Technology: Navigating the Fast Lane
In a world where speed, accuracy, and affordability rarely align, the emergence of MALDI-TOF technology has rewritten the rules for microbial identification. Join us for an insightful webinar as we delve into microbial identification, now revolutionized by MALDI-TOF. At Biolog Lab Services, we’ve seamlessly integrated this cutting-edge technology into our microbial identification and characterization suite. In this session, we’ll introduce you to the power of MALDI-TOF, highlighting its suitability for microbial identification, and shed light on how our implementation of this technique synergizes with other contamination identification and microbial classification methods.
Don’t miss this opportunity to explore the fast lane of microbial identification!
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