diff --git a/alab_management/experiment_view/experiment_view.py b/alab_management/experiment_view/experiment_view.py
index 25f7c5d..4fdaa18 100644
--- a/alab_management/experiment_view/experiment_view.py
+++ b/alab_management/experiment_view/experiment_view.py
@@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ def create_experiment(self, experiment: InputExperiment) -> ObjectId:
 
         # confirm that no task/sample id's already exist in the database. This is possible when users manually set
         # these id's
-        experiment=experiment.model_dump(mode="python")
+        experiment = experiment.model_dump(mode="python")
 
         for sample in experiment["samples"]:
             if sample["sample_id"] is None: