Synbiosis ProtoCOL 2 automated colony counter

Tuesday, 12 April, 2011 | Supplied by: Don Whitley Scientific Australia


The Synbiosis ProtoCOL 2 automated colony counter can be used to rapidly and accurately count colonies of yeast, used as a model system for human DNA repair research.

Geneticists in the Department of Biology at Emory University are using ProtoCOL 2 to count colonies of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to accurately assess how many yeast cells can repair their DNA after they have been subjected to various types of mutagenesis. In general, repair systems in S. cerevisiae are good models for human repair. Therefore, scientists at Emory believe that showing why and how cells repair their DNA in this yeast could help better understand and treat human diseases such as colorectal cancer associated with DNA mismatch repair defects.

ProtoCOL 2 can count colonies according to size or colour. To have a segregated count of different sizes or colours is a useful feature. Also, the counter indicates every colony it has counted with a dot so users can manually review tricky areas.

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