Facilities and instrumentation
Location
Our labs are located on level 1 in the department of physics at Umeå university.
Umeå Universitet / Department of physicsLinnaeus väg 24 90187 Umeå SwedenOur rooms
Our optical tweezers setups are in close connection to biological preparation rooms. The preparation rooms have all necessary components needed for preparing biological samples in a safe environment. The figure shows a 3D image of our modules. We have from the left: the microfluidic and digital holographic setup room, the optical tweezers room, and preparation room one and two.
Two rooms for optical tweezers
We have two separate rooms that are temperature controlled and isolated from noise. Computers and some controllers are stored in the central compartment, in which we have a separate cooling system to remove heat generated.
Preparation room 1
Here we have a fume hood, centrifuge, 3D-printer, spectrophotometer, bacterial cultivation shaker, high-precision scale, ultra-clean dishwasher, preparation tools.
Preparation room 2
Here we have a sterile flow bench, -80 freezer, incubator, oven, microscope for surface measurements.
Our instrumentation
Optical tweezers
Instrument for manipulation and force measurement
Laser ablation
Instrument for ablating cells
Laser-Tweezer-Raman-Spectroscopy
Instrument for single cell Raman spectroscopy
High-speed imaging
Mikrotron Cube7 high-speed camera
SLA 3D-printer (51 µm)
Anycubic Photon Mono SE
SLA 3D-printer (34 µm)
Anycubic Photon Mono X 6K
FDM 3D-printer
Ultimaker 2+
FDM 3D-printer
Creality Ender 3 S1 Pro
Laser Engraver
Anycubic CV-01 Pro
Digital Holographic Imaging
Custom made digital holgraphic microscopy
Cellix-microfluidic setup
Our University Core Facilities
NanoLab is a classified Class 100 cleanroom located at the Department of Physics.
The Nanolab was established in June 2012, and has since its inception been in continuous development. Today, it comprises a variety of advanced fabrication and characterization setups, including : Atomic force microscope (Park NX-Hivac), Plasma cleaning system ATTO (power 0-50W), Plasma cleaning/etching system PE-100 (power 0-300W), Karl Süss Mask Aligner MJB3 Kurt J. Lesker PVD75 Thermal Evaporator Obducat NIL 2.5 Nanoimprinter Olympus BX51 Optical Microscope PANalytical Xpert3 Powder XRD SPIN150-NPP Spin Coater Theta OneAttension Contact Angle Meter Four-Point Probe system Vacuum Chamber Furnace - VBF-1200X-H8 https://www.umu.se/en/research/infrastructure/nanolab/
Umeå Core Facility for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) is a joint resource for research and higher education in electron microscopy techniques. Electron microscopy is used for structural and chemical characterization of materials at micro and nano-meter length scales. Medical and biological samples are prepared, imaged and analyzed in 3D. Also, structure biology projects are addressed by cryo electron microscopy. The core facility offers SEM, TEM, and Cryo-EM. More information here: https://www.umu.se/en/research/infrastructure/umea-core-facility-for-electron-microscopy-ucem/
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.