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Molecular Biological Methods

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Two labs of biosafety level 1 equipped with:

  • Biosafety Cabinet (CleanAir by Baker)
  • Nanodrop One (Isogen Lifescience)
  • MJ Mini Thermocycler (Bio-Rad)
  • Gel electrophoresis and western blotting (Bio-Rad / Nippong Genetics Europe)
  • FAS-DIGI Pro Gel illuminator (Nippon Genetics Europe)
  • Thermostated Incubators (Binder)
  • KS 3000 Shaking incubators (IKA)
  • 705 Sonic Dismembrator (Fisherbrand)
  • Refrigerated centrifuges (Eppendorf)
  • ULT freezer (PCbi)

Access to

  • Äkta Pure M FPLC set-up (Cytiva)

Molecular Structural Analysis

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As a part of the Materials Chemistry department, we have access to the following equipment:

  • NMR Spectrometers (liquid and solid state, Jeol)
  • FT-IR spectrometer, ATR mode 
  • UV-VIS spectrometer, temperature controlled
  • LC/MS (various suppliers)
  • GC/MS (various suppliers)
  • UltrafleXtreme MALDI-TOF mass spectrometer (Bruker)
  • Size-exclusion chromatography (CHCl3 as mobile phase)

Materials Characterisation

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As a part of the Materials Chemistry department, we have access to the following equipment:

  • Thermogravimetric analyser (TA Instruments)
  • Differential Scanning Calorimeter (TA Instruments)
  • Oscillatory Rheometer (TA Instruments)
  • Universal Mechanical Analyser (Shimadzu)
  • Custom-built injectability tester
  • Static contact angle set-up
  • Osmometer

Our funding agencies

The research performed in the Biomolecule Design Group is supported by different funding schemes set up by both the Research Foundation Flanders and the Special Research Fund from Hasselt University.

FWO

Research Foundation Flanders

Uhasselt Liggend

Special Research Fund Hasselt University

Biomolecule Design Group

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Location

Agoralaan Gebouw D

Molecular biology lab: F1.21
Biomaterials lab: F1.20
SPPS lab: F1.09
Synthesis lab: F3.18

Peter Adriaensens

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Location

Agoralaan Gebouw D-F1.43,
3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium

Geert-Jan Graulus

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Location

Agoralaan Gebouw D-F2.12, 
3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium

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