Using PIXL in an anaerobic chamber
PIXL Dark has all the great features and showstopping transfer efficiency of our standard microbial colony picker, but upgraded with an automatic door, making it ideal for the confined space inside an anaerobic chamber.
“PIXL can pick an entire 96-well plate of colonies into new media, plus take photos of the plate and each individual colony, in a matter of minutes. Doing this by hand would take nearly five minutes per bacterial colony, not per plate. That’s pretty impressive.”
Dr Suzanne McCusker
AHMB Project Manager
When you have a plastic film between you and your colonies, you need to minimise fiddly manual operations, like accessory swaps or sterilisation steps.
PIXL’s ultra-efficient PickupLine colony transfer system delivers seamless reliable colony picking, at a fraction of the cost of traditional tips and with no need for wash cycles.
With a proven ability to isolate a wide variety of microorganisms, PIXL is the perfect choice for labs researching microbiomes.
Key benefits of PIXL for anaerobic chambers
PIXL Dark uses the freshly-cut end of a sterile PickupLine to transfer microbial colonies, meaning no wash cycles.
Surface detection on every pick, customisable adhesion motions, and motors accurate to 50 micrometres.
✅ Transfer efficiency more than 99% across fungal and bacterial strains
PIXL Dark has an automated door, doesn’t require compressed air and has a small footprint, making it compatible with the restrictive space inside a chamber and a range of gas mixtures.
✅ Safe, reliable handling of oxygen-sensitive species
How our customers are integrating PIXL
with anaerobic chambers
Gut-directed gene therapy
Implementing CRISPR screens to identify clones that achieve selective microbiome modulation e.g. SNIPR Biome.
Biobanking initiatives
Microbiome biobanking initiatives aimed at achieving fast sample processing times to maximise capture of difficult to culture species, e.g. The Australian Human Microbiome Biobank.
Precision probiotics
High throughput screening of lactobacilli to produce production strains for the manufacture of human probiotics or as a supplement in animal feed, e.g. Wilmar International.
Carbon-recycling
Strain engineering to harness synthetic metabolic pathways that convert CO₂ into high-value products, such as biofuels or bioplastics.
“I have been using the PIXL on a weekly, if not daily basis. The PIXL is extremely reliable, I haven’t had any issues with contamination, breakdown or just any sort of malfunction, it’s worked beautifully every time I’ve needed it.”
Dr Mari Rodrigues
senior scientist at SNIPR Biome
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Zone of Inhibition
The ZOI feature lets you streamline the calibration of zone diameter breakpoints to MIC values or could help promote safe handling of pathogenic species during antimicrobial susceptibility testing.
MALDI-TOF
The MALDI-TOF feature helps maintain accurate bacterial identification when it really matters by automating sample preparation protocols.
Compatible with Bruker and Shimadzu
microbial identification systems.
