Open Source Bioreactor

The Project

History

http://univalle.epfl.ch/

List of contributors

Project Coordinators

Pr. Luc Patiny, ISIC EPFL-UNIL, Lausanne, CH Pr. Julien Wist, DARMN Research Group, Univalle, Cali, CO Pr. Janeth Sanabria, GAOX Research Group, Univalle, Cali, CO Quentin Cabrol, MSc Micro and Nanosystems EPFL

Current Collaborators, on Oct 2016

Clément Chenevas, Life Science Student EPFL : operation of Bioreactor v3 @ Univalle Alice Leydier, Life Science Student EPFL : operation of Bioreactor v3 @ Univalle Alexandre Gubert, Mechanical Student EPFL : mechanical Design of Bioreactor v3 @ Univalle Daniel K Michael

Past Collaborators Emilien Eric Marco Schukraft (1 more ?) David Lambalet Samuel Benketaf Raffael Tschui Gabriel Laupré Gael Grosch Oliver Peric

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Concept

This project is a collaboration between Univalle (Universidad Del Valle - Colombia) and EPFL (Polytechnical school of Lausanne - Switzerland). The goal was to build an Open Source Bioreactor that everyone could assemble and use, from their backyard to the universities around the world.

This Bioreactor can be used for many applications, such as growing bacterias in anaerobic conditions, with an automatised interface. The temperature, pH, conductometry, feeding and flow of gas going in the reactor can be controlled. All the parameters are stored in a card for future use and can be changed or viewed remotely.

Extension Modules

pH regulation and conductometry

The Bioreactor contains a pH board, that can be used with a standard gel probe containing reference electrode and a BNC/RCA (Cinch) 2-Wires output. You can choose to regulate or not the pH of your solution, by changing the pH state. In order to regulate the pH, the target pH should be set and solutions of acid and base should be prepared.

Another board is dedicated for the measure of the conductometry.