Culturing Platform

The Culturing Platform at the Institute of Experimental Medicine offers a range of newly established services supporting experimental microbiome research. These include culturing assays conducted under both aerobic and anaerobic conditions, metabolomics screening, as well as the isolation and sequencing of microbial species from diverse sample types. Researchers also have access to curated biobanks containing a wide array of bacterial isolates. In addition, the platform enables the isolation of novel microbial species from various microbiome sources and supports the generation of microbiome derivatives, along with the execution of both in vitro and ex vivo functional assays.

The platform was funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) as part of the Core Facilities funding programme.

Beyond standard assays, the platform supports isolation of novel species, generation of microbiome derivatives, and in vitro or ex vivo functional assays. Researchers also have access to curated biobanks and technical consultation across experimental pipelines.