Fig. 2

Evaluation of potential impact of automated liquid handling on fungal morphology. Pellets with varying diameter of up to 600 µm were automatically sampled from a BioLector during cultivation conditions (shaking frequency of 600 rpm) and transferred into a deep well plate as an intermediate storage. Influence of the pipetting steps on fungal morphology was analyzed via microscopic imaging at 40× magnification in contrast to manual pipetting with cut-off pipette tips (approx. 2.8 mm)