Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU)

Research infrastructure BICU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art imaging technology together with affinity measurements. The facility allows advanced live cell imaging studies and measurement of interactions of proteins with other proteins, RNA, lipids and carbohydrates. Together with UCEM, BICU forms a node in the National Microscopy Infrastructure (NMI), Sweden for Correlative imaging.

Light Microscopy

Affinity Measurements

Atomic Force Microscopy

Correlative Imaging

Services provided at BICU

Consultation prior to imaging.
Technical support for image acquisition.
Personal training to provide drivers licence per instrument.
Assistance with Image analysis (including image pre-processing: improvement of image quality and intermediate processing: segmentation of the image. We are not involved in high level image processing: model prediction).

Laboratory space, cell culture room and incubators are available for external users, too.

Booking of Instruments at BICU

To book BICU instruments, please visit our Online booking system

Please note that e-booking requires that you have had previous education on the specific system.

If you dont have access to e-booking or if you want education or support please contact:

Light Microscopy

Facility Manager

Irene Martinez Carrasco

Other Staff

Naga Venkata Gayathri Vegesna

+46 90 786 64 08

+46 90 786 64 08

Seminars, Workshops and Training

Upcoming and previous seminars, workshops and training are presented here.

BICU Policy

Do you want to know more about how we run our facility? Read the BICU policy document!

BICU Delivery Address

Umeå Universitet Lastplats KBC-huset Linnaeus väg 6 907 36 Umeå (Sweden)

BICU Feedback Survey

The aim of the survey is to get your input about your current use of the Biochemical Imaging Center.

Host Department

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, KBC, Umea Universitet (UmU)

Director, Head and Coordinator

Richard Lundmark

+46 90 786 93 01

Facility Manager

Irene Martinez Carrasco

Other Staff

Naga Venkata Gayathri Vegesna

+46 90 786 64 08