Core Facilities
National projects and carrying structures:
Technology platforms MIC and PROBE are available to any and all Norwegian higher education institutions, at the same beneficial terms of use.
MIC and PROBE is organized as core facilities. The idea behind the core facility concept is to make sophisticated scientific equipment and highly specialized personnel available to a wide range of users. In turn, core facility users contribute financially to operational expenses through paying a set fee for services rendered.
The core facilities also conduct independent research and development within their respective scientific areas, and the goal is to evolve these into leaders of their fields, thus making it more attractive for research environments to employ core facility services versus running their own equipment park
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Molecular Imaging Center (MIC)
The Molecular Imaging Centre (MIC) is an imaging core facility with the dual mission of doing imaging methods R&D and on this basis providing the best possible service to the Norwegian scientific community. This is made possible through our state of the art imaging equipment and our highly competent scientific and technical staff. MICs organization as a core facility implies that all researchers in Norway are welcome users at MIC at equal terms through our booking system.
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PROBE
PROBE is a national core facility for large scale protein analysis (proteomics) using mass spectrometry. PROBE is financed by the University of Bergen and Norges forskningsråd through the FUGE programme and is the leading node of the Norproteomics consortium. PROBE is equipped for a wide range of proteomics analysis, from the identification of proteins present in a sample to comparison of protein expression profiles between different samples. Expertise in experimental design, sample preparation, sample analysis and data interpretation is available. PROBE offers service, support and collaborations to those interested in doing mass spectrometry based protein analysis on any type of sample. All researchers are from the University (UoH) and Health sectors are welcome at equal terms regardless of affiliation. Industry researchers are also welcome but at different financial terms.
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UnB - Unit for nano-system in biomedicine
UnB platform provides the technical support and expertise for the development of micro- and nano-featured systems, as a tool to study biological subjects and human diseases.