UNLOCK your research
UNLOCK large-scale open infrastructure for microbial research provides access to unique facilities and state-of-the-art equipment that allows you to conduct innovative experiments and tackle novel research questions particularly on microbial communities. UNLOCK is set up and maintained by microbial scientists from TU Delft and Wageningen University & Research, who are also at hand to provide expertise and technical support. The facilities are easily accessible to researchers from all over the world and highly subsidized for academic users.
UNLOCK is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) as part of the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Research Facilities (project 184.035.007)
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“The novel opportunities offered by UNLOCK will enable us to develop highly efficient and sustainable applications for water treatment. We therefore enthusiastically support the implementation of UNLOCK.”
“I expect that we and the research groups and companies we collaborate with will greatly benefit from direct use of this facility and of its outcomes.”
“Through its integrated approach, UNLOCK involves the unprecedented combination of cultivation and characterisation for tapping into the extensive resources of microbial consortia. It is a truly uniquely approach which will undoubtedly lead to ground-breaking discoveries in microbiology in the future.”
“I am very confident that UNLOCK will provide an integrated world‐class facility that will greatly impact the world’s main international research quests.”
“Being able to cultivated and preserve mixed microbial communities, together with their molecular characterization and the improved access to their data, will open up new avenues for basic and applied life sciences.”
“The UNLOCK experimental and data platform will facilitate remarkable insights into untapped microbial resources, with the potential to lead to disruptive changes across a broad range of scientific fields and industries.”
