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