Technical capabilities

• Laboratory and in-field molecular diagnostic development and evaluation
• Microbial, genetic, and biochemical testing
• Histology
• Vaccine design and evaluation

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Omics capabilities

• Genomics
• Transcriptomics
• Metabolomics
• Proteomics
• Lipidomics

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Microbiomics chemical capabilities

• Food analysis
• Chromatography
• Mass spectroscopy
• Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy

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Conservation management

• eDNA analysis
• Vaccine design and evaluation

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Infrastructure and equipment

The Centre for Bioinnovation’s Applied Microbiology team works across multiple locations including UniSC Sunshine Coast, the Sunshine Coast Health Institute, UniSC Moreton Bay, and in the field with industry. Across these sites, our state-of-the-art equipment includes the following. 

• Microbial culture - Salmonella and Escherichia coli (E.coli)
• Viral culture - Orthoflavivirus denguei (Dengue virus)
• Epidemic polyarthritis - Ross River Virus
• Digital Polymerase Chain Reaction (dPCR)
• Real-time/quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR)
• Portable real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR)
• Portable, automated liquid handling robotic
• Portable real-time fluorometer

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