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Special equipment EpiGen

Below you will find a list of the equipment and techniques we have available, as well as the price of renting equipment and training in techniques/equipment.

Application

Equipment

Biomarkers
  • Luminex 200 xMAP platform
  • PAM Station Tyrosine Kinase Array
  • Quanterix Simoa – magnetic bead-antibody-based assay

Next-generation sequencers

  • Illumina MiSeq and NexSeq550
  • Life Technologies IonTorrent S5
  • Oxford Nanopore MinIon

Molecular pathology/Immunohistochemistry

  • Leica CM1850 Cryostat
  • Slee Medical microtome
  • Autostainer 48Link from Dako/Agilent
  • ThermoBrite Hybridization oven
  • Stratalinker
  • ThermoFisher ClearVue Coverslipper

Molecular imaging

  • Zeiss LSM 780 confocal microscope
  • Zeiss AXIO Vert.A1
  • Axio Zoom.V16, wide field imaging with optical sectioning
  • Zeiss StereoLumarV12, stereo fluorescence microscope
  • Zeiss Discovery V8 microscopes
  • Olympus IX81 inverted microscope
  • ThermoFisher EVOS FL microscope

Flow cytometry

  • BD FACSAria III (4 lasers and cell sorting)
  • BD FACSCanto II (three lasers)

Preparation of biospecimens

  • Zeiss PALM laser microdissection system
  • Eppendorf EpMotion 5070 liquid handling system
  • Hamilton NGS Star for NGS library prep applications
  • Qiagen QiaSymphony DNA/RNA extractor
  • Qiagen QiaCube automated sample preparation robot
  • ThermoFisher KingFisher Apex sample prep
  • Sorvall WX90 ultracentrifuge
  • Sage Science Pippin Prep
  • Covaris CP02 cryoPREP Automated Dry Pulverizer
  • Agilent 4200 TapeStation electrophoresis tool
  • LABCONCO Refrigerated vacuum sample concentrator CentriVap

Cell and Molecular biology

  • Agilent microarray scanner with 2, 3, 5, and 10µm resolution
  • PyroMark 48, Qiagen
  • ThermoFisher QuantStudio 7 Flex
  • ThermoFisher QuantStudio 6 Pro
  • Eppendorf MasterCyclers, incuding  Mastercycler X50 2D-Gradient for enhanced PCR optimization
  • Bio-Rad QX200 Digital Droplet PCR
  • CHEF-DRIII high resolution PFGE
  • LUMIstar Omega plate reader
  • ThermoFisher Varioscan LUX plate reader
  • ACROBiosystems Meso Scale Electrochemiluminescence ELISA plate reader
  • 2D gel electrophoresis
  • BioRad GelDoc XR+
  • BioRad ChemiDocXRS+
  • Fujifilm LAS-3000 mini
  • Fujifilm FLA5100 scanner
  • Diagenode UCD-300 Bioruptor
  • Covaris E220 ultrasonicator
  • Invitrogen Neon transfection system
  • Cell laboratories, including hypoxia chamber and CellRad (Faxitron) cabinet x-ray cell irradiator
  • Multisizer 4e Coulter Counter
  • Qubit Flex Fluorometer
  • Single cell cloning platform – cell picker from IOTA

Services 

Prices, check list, and contact information      
Most of our facilities can be hired for research activities based on availability.

Service Level 1* Level 2**
Unsupervised use of instruments. Customer provides samples and consumables/kits.  1  times instrument run 250 NOK 1 times instrument run 500
2 timers instrument run 400 NOK 2 timers instrument run 800 NOK
4 timers instrument run 600 NOK 4 timers instrument run 1200 NOK
Operator support /training of users for instruments. Customer provides samples and consumables/kits.  500 NOK/time 1000 NOK/time

*Level 1: Regular HSØ and UiO users

**Level 2: External users (including academic users outside HSØ region and UiO, and commercial enterprises) 

No fees are charged if EpiGen staff members are involved in the work and are co-authors on scientific publications. Also, no fees are charged when the facilities are used as part of a collaborative project.

Do you have questions? Or do you want to book a time at our facilities? Please do not hesitate to contact Anna B. Frengen (a.m.b.frengen@medisin.uio.no). New users will need to go through training/assessment routine.

Published Dec. 21, 2023 12:40 PM - Last modified Dec. 21, 2023 12:41 PM