Biology Laboratory
Cell culture laboratory
Equipment
- CO2 incubators
- Laminar flow chamber
- Cell counter
- Fluorescence inverted microscope
Scope of research
- Conducting primary and established cell cultures
- Analysis of the cytotoxicity of exogenous physical and chemical agents on in vitro systems
Bio-imaging laboratory
Equipment
- Leica TCS SP5 high-resolution confocal microscope equipped with white laser, STED (stimulated emission depletion) and FCS (fluorescence correlation spectroscopy) application
- Zeiss Axioimager M2 fluorescence microscope equipped with Metasystems chromosome analysis system
- FMT 1500 Viesen - Molecular Fluorescence Tomograph
- InCell Analyser, GE Healthcare
Scope of research
- High-resolution imaging of fixed or live biological material (cell cultures)
- Cariotyping
- Fluorescence in situ hybridisation
- Small animal imaging
- Intravital cell characterisation and imaging
Nucleic acid analysis laboratory
Equipment
- Thermocyclers for DNA amplification
- Thermocycler for real-time PCR analysis
- UV chamber for assembling enzyme reactions
- Spectrophotometer for the determination of DNA, RNA and protein concentrations
Scope of research
- Isolation of DNA, RNA
- Amplification of DNA
- Real-time DNA amplification
- Purification of amplicons
- Restriction digestion
- Mutation analysis
Protein analysis laboratory
Equipment
- Horizontal electrophoresis systems
- Isoelectric focusing system
- Directional 2D Tower electrophoresis system
- Gel documentation system
- Gel dryer
- Fluorescence scanner
- Plate reader
- UV/VIS spectrophotometer
- Biacore X
Scope of research
- Isolation and purification of proteins
- electrophoretic analysis (agarose gels, polyacrylamide gels, isoelectric focusing, 2D electrophoresis)
- analysis of protein-biomolecule interactions