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SCIENTIFIC & TECHNICAL SERVICES

Bioservice

The Bioservice Platform is a service created in 2020 with the collaboration of the ICN2. This service provides support to the different research groups at ICMAB to perform biological assays with cells and bacteria. Experimental work is mainly carried out at the Biolab Facility (ICN2).

The Bioservice counts with an experienced technician which offers advice, training and executes the ICMAB´s researchers biological studies aimed to the characterization of new materials and devices.

Main services currently offered are:

  • Maintenance and cryopreservation of mammal cell lines and bacteria
  • Cell viability assays (XTT, Alamar Blue)
  • Antibacterial activity assays

Equipment

Biological safety cabinet Telstar BIO II A*
Microcentrifuge Heraeus Biofuge pico
Orbital shaker Stuart Mini SSM1
Microwave ProClean 310
Fridge, 4 °C
Biological safety cabinet HERAsafe HS12*
CO2 incubator HERAcell
CO2 incubator Function line BB16
Microcentrifuge Eppendorf 5415C
Water bath Grant mini
Fridge Liebherr Medline, 4 °C
Centrifuge SIGMA 2-16PK
Osmometer OSMOMAT 030
Freezer Liebherr Öko super, -20 °C
Digital Vortex Mixer
Autoclave Selecta Med20
outside of the Biolab, room 2001
Ultra-freezer HEF U410, -86 °C
outside of the Biolab, room 2001
SpectraMax iD3 Multi-Mode Microplate Reader
Outside of the Biolab, Nanobioelectronics and Biosensors Lab
Autoclave Autester ST DRY-PV-B18
Incubator Forma Series II Water Jacket
Vertical Laminar Flow Bench Telstar AV-100*
Optical microscope Zeiss Telaval 31

Request Service

To use the Bioservice, you should contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by mail. After a first meeting, the technician evaluates with the researcher the experiments to perform and offers a quotation with the devised plans. Once the budget is accepted, the work at the Bioservice starts.

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Technicians

Scientists in charge

User's Committee

Gallery

Bioservice

Address:

Biolab Facility
ICN2 Av. de Serragalliners, s/n

BioLab
ICMAB - C. dels Til·lers, s/n

Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra
Barcelona

E-mail:

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The Bioservice Facility has received funds from the CENanoTech project (2015 FEDER/S-16). In turn, the CENanoTech project is funded through the call for unique institutional R&D infrastructures launched by the Universities and Research Secretariat of the Regional Ministry of Economy and Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia, with funding received from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) under the Operational Programme Catalonia 2014-2020. The project has also been co-funded by the Severo Ochoa Programme, granted by the back then Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (SEV-2013-0295).