Current activities concentrate on production systems for low and high molecular weight products (e.g. amino acids, organic acids, antibiotics, ketoacids, lipases, proteases, etc) utilizing pro- and eukaryotic microbial systems, such as Corynebacterium glutamicum, Bacillus subtilis, Pichia pastoris, Bacillus licheniformis, Eschericha coli, Gluconobacter oxydans, Penicillium sp. and Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Besides routine applications of parallel bioreactor setups for bioprocess development the group operates a pilot plant facility (300 L scale) for scale-up approaches. In addition, we have developed a medium throughput cultivation platform making use of a microtiterplate cultivation platform which can be operated in combination with a liquid handling robotic system for significantly increased cultivation throughput.