Colony Counter

Colony Counter 800  /  Colony Counter 1300

Colonies of bacteria or other microorganisms are growing on an agar plate. A sterile Petri dish (or Petri plate or cell culture dish) with a diameter of 100 mm (inner diameter of 90 mm), made out of glass or plastic (mostly polystyrene) is a cylindrical dish with a lid and is typically used to culture cells. Also 50 mm diameter dishes and so called multi-well plates (MTP) can be used in Herolab’s new Colony Counter.

For the different applications both Cell Colony Counters have the following standard illuminations built-in:

·      Backlight, white, extremely homogenously and dimmable

·      Epi-Illumination, indirect white light reflection

·      Epi-illumination, indirect with blue light of 470 nm wavelength

·      Darkfield illumination, dark background with light not directly collected from the camera

The illumination is designed with LED´s for an extreme long lifetime.

The newly designed Herolab Colony Counter together with a special module of the E.A.S.Y.^® Win32 software counts the colonies electronically, by identifying individual areas of dark and light according to automatic or user-set thresholds, and counting the resulting contrasting spots including quantification by a fingertip.