What is ColonyCam® Silhouette?

ColonyCam Silhouette is a bench-top, automation-friendly microbial imaging workstation currently being developed to take high-resolution photos of microbial colonies on agar while minimising perspective distortion for a range of multi-well and deep-well plates.

ColonyCam Silhouette is still in development, and we are looking for scientists to join our Discovery Community and give prototype feedback to help us shape the development.

Did we mention this image was taken with the lid on?

Image your biology… not the sides of your wells!

Have you ever tried imaging colonies in a multi-well plate? How about deep-well? It’s not easy.

We’ve developed a very clever optical configuration that simultaneously images straight down every well of a multi-well plate. This means it takes excellent images of your biology, not the sides of the wells!

Its uniform illumination intensity and clever optical configuration will empower consistent image analysis or phenotyping across an entire plate from a single photo. Plus, there’s no glare, even with lids on!

It’s not just for well-plates though

We’re also developing this colony imager to work with single-well PlusPlates and 90 mm Petri dishes, and as part of a range of applications:

High-throughput screening (HTS)
Total viable count (TVC) for water testing
Spot assays
PCR / Transformation viability
Growth assays
Serial dilutions (CFU counts)
Directed evolution
Genetic engineering
Antimicrobial resistance
CRISPR/Cas9 studies
Cloning
Super-fast plate reading


It’s fast!

Image all wells in one quick photo. No more wasting your valuable time scanning or imaging each well individually. You’ll also save time by analysing all wells at once.

ColonyCam Silhouette will be extensible. This means that analysis functionality, such as colony counting, CFU, etc., will become available over time.

Want to help us develop this product?

We need your expert brains! We’re looking for people to give us feedback on our development and help shape the next features. You can participate as little or as much as you want and opt out anytime.

If you give us feedback on what we’ve built so far, you’ll get early access to ColonyCam Silhouette and the chance to have a free prototype in your lab.

Register your interest in ColonyCam Silhouette

One of our Discovery Team members will drop you an email with further details and talk about booking a quick feedback session.





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