Research infrastructure

AI for Medicine in Northern Sweden, AIM North, offers support with technical methods regarding machine learning and AI in clinical research projects. The center is available to researchers throughout the northern healthcare region.

The Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU) is a national infrastructure that provides state-of-the-art microscopy technology, including advanced light microscopy and atomic force microscopy. Together with UCEM, BICU forms a node in the National Microscopy Infrastructure (NMI), Sweden for Correlative imaging. Please contact us for further information: info.bicu@umu.se

MT-R&D’s development and research support is a research infrastructure that offers extensive technical competence and equipment to researchers and healthcare professionals. By doing so, the infrastructure supports the implementation of research and development projects.

BMCU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art technology to characterize biomolecules. The facility allows measurements of affinity using different technologies, together with molecular weight analysis, folding and overall structure.

The dual-trap C-Trap dymo 300 instrument combines optical tweezers, multichannel microfluidics, fluorescence microscopy, and label-free imaging in a single, integrated system that allows the study of biomolecular interactions and dynamics at the single-molecule level.

Euro-BioImaging is a European research infrastructure that provides world-class biological and biomedical imaging services to life science researchers across Europe.

NBIS provides bioinformatics and data science support to the Swedish life science research community. We offer a broad spectrum of services, including advanced bioinformatics analysis, bioimage informatics, data management, imaging AI support, systems and tools development, and support to national compute resources.

The Swedish national research infrastructure for microscopy in life sciences NMI provides open access to state-of-the-art equipment and expertise in microscopy, and coordinates the participation in international microscopy infrastructures (EuroBioImaging).

Small Animal Research Imaging Facility (SARIF) is an infrastructure that consists of five instruments that allow advanced imaging of structures and processes that take place inside the experimental animal. These instruments enable the same animal to be analyzed on several occasions and over a long period.

(UFBI) is an inter-disciplinary research center where imaging techniques are used to examine brain structure and function in relation to both basic and clinical questions. To date, more than 100 UmU researchers and more than 50 external researchers have been involved in UFBI-projects as co-authors on publications based on data collected at UFBI.

Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) is a university and national resource for research and higher education in electron microscopy techniques.

Umeå Transgenic Core Facility (UTCF) is housed within UCCB and is a fully integrated platform for generation, maintenance and DNA analysis of genetically modified animals. The transgenic facility performs pronuclear injections, blastocyst injections, embryo transfer, in vitro fertilization, and sperm cryopreservation.

Flow cytometry enables simultaneously analysis of cell surface bound as well as intracellular proteins and RNA expression on a single cell basis. In addition, secreted proteins can be analyzed using a bead based systems.

The XPS Platform provides surface analysis by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy (UPS), and Low Energy Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopy (LEIPS) techniques. A full range of conventional XPS measurements is available, including monochromatic Al Kα excitation, angle-resolved XPS, XPS imaging, and cryogenic measurements of hydrated (wet) samples.