QPix® FLEX™ Microbial Colony Picker
Optimized for precision, flexibility, and hypoxic workflows.
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For scientists working in protein engineering and microbiome, traditional colony picking remains a bottleneck, often requiring hours of tedious manual labor and risking contamination or tracking errors. As projects scale and timelines tighten, researchers struggle with fragmented workflows, cramped lab spaces, and data integrity challenges. The QPix® FLEX™ system removes these roadblocks, empowering researchers to automate their workflows without sacrificing precision, sterility, or traceability.
Key Features and Benefits
- Compact Design, Big Impact: Ideal for labs with limited space, fitting effortlessly on the benchtop or inside hypoxic or anaerobic chambers. Its configurable deck and modular architecture grow with research needs.
- Precision Picking with Phenotypic Insight: Advanced imaging and ultrasonic agar sensing deliver near-perfect picking accuracy, enabling detailed colony analysis by morphology and color for smarter downstream screening.
- Built-In Sterility and Traceability: Integrated UV decontamination, ultrasonic tip washing, and optional HEPA filtration reduce contamination risk. Complete barcode-based sample tracking ensures data integrity at every step.
- End-to-End Workflow Automation: Combines plating, streaking, colony picking, and hit picking in a single instrument, reducing hands-on time and error-prone manual steps while accelerating screening throughput.
Automated microbial plating, picking, and liquid handling for streamlined screening and hit selection
Bacterial and yeast strains are essential in microbiology, driving innovations in healthcare, biotechnology, and environmental science, including therapeutic protein production, biofuels, and biodegradable materials.
This study focuses on automating workflows using the QPix® FLEX™ Microbial Colony Picker, specifically for E. coli and yeast, to enhance accuracy and efficiency. Automating colony picking ensures contamination-free environments and provides reliable data for applications like gene expression studies, protein production, and metabolic analysis.
Delivering precision in anaerobic microbiome research with smart automation
July 30, 2025, 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST / 11:00 EDT / 08:00 PDT
In human health, microbiome research is opening doors to novel diagnostics, personalized medicine, and next-generation therapeutics. Having access to high-precision tools can have a drastic impact on accuracy, throughput and even user comfort.
In this upcoming webinar, hear an in-depth discussion as Molecular Devices experts, Dr. Sheela Muley, Product Manager in Biopharma and Dr. Sushmita Sudarshan, Application Scientist in Assay Development, introduce the QPix® FLEX™ microbial colony picker. A compact, automated and multifunctional system designed to streamline complex anaerobic workflows by performing precise colony picking, plating, streaking, and liquid handling both on the benchtop, and within hypoxic chambers.
Dr. Muley and Dr. Sudarshan will also share real-world applications, beta test results, and integration insights demonstrating the platform’s ability to isolate previously unculturable strains and accelerate the advancement of next-generation live biotherapeutics.
Key learning objectives
- Understand the challenges of culturing and isolating anaerobic microbes and how automation can solve them
- Discover how the QPix FLEX enables precise colony picking, plating, and liquid handling inside hypoxic chambers
- Learn how automated workflows improve reproducibility, reduce manual strain, and increase throughput in microbiome R&D
- Explore real-world use cases, including MALDI-TOF sample prep and beta test results from probiotic discovery labs
Who should attend?
- Researchers and scientists advancing microbiome science via anaerobic or fastidious strain work, probiotic discovery, gut-brain axis studies, and live biotherapeutic development.
- Lab managers and technical teams focused on increasing throughput and reproducibility with culturomics, MALDI-TOF workflows, automation, and anaerobic culturing techniques.
Certificate of attendance
If you attend the live webinar, you will automatically receive a certificate of attendance, including a learning outcomes summary, for continuing education purposes.
If you view the on-demand webinar, you can request a certificate of attendance by emailing editor@selectscience.net.
