Booking and Prices
Please read carefully both the information about booking, registration, and pricing as well as the conditions of using BiSS facilities.
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Info related to the booking of instuments at BiSS
Link to Booking System - NEW from 01.01.2023!!!
To be able to order services and reserve instruments, user of MIC, PROBE, BiSS and Flow Cytometry have to use the booking system BookitLab. BookitLab is common for all facilities at UiB that have implemented it, so users only have to register once.
- Users with UiB-affiliation log in with their Feide credential.
- Other users have to contact biss@uib.no for help with the initial login.
- All users have to be assigned a project before they have access to reserve any services.
Please download the startup guide under attachments at the bottom of this page.
First time users must receive a training on each instrument, and the training session needs to be booked well in advance and in dialog with the admin responsible for the instrument.
General rules:
The person booking has to be present during operation of the instrument.
Notify biss@uib.no if you exceed the time booked.
Booking is mandatory.
If you need training (first-time users), please contact the responsible person for the instrument.
Juha: Juha.Vahokoski@uib.no
Anne: Anne.Baumann@uib.no
Ju: Ju.Xu@uib.no
Sudarshan: Sudarshan.Patil@uib.no
For general questions and contact to BiSS, please use the common email biss@uib.no.
Instruments / pricing:
| Instrument | Room; responsible person | Booking sessions | Booking fee – per session (academic/non- |
| SEC-MALS | 5A112dB; Anne | 24 h | 1200,- / 2400,- |
| ITC | 5A126B; | 4 h | 600,- / 1200,- |
| CD | 5A126B; Juha | 1 h | 100,- / 200,- |
| AFM | 5C130B; Anne | 4 h | 400,- / 800,- |
| DLS | 5A122bB; Juha | 1 h | 100,- / 200,- |
| DSC | 5A126B; Sudarshan | Min. 24 h | 480,- / 960,- |
| Crystal imaging | 5C122B; Ju | per plate (booked as supply in the booking system) | 200,- / 400,- /plate |
| Crystallization robot | 5C122B; Ju | 1 h | 200,-/ 400,- |
| Crystal transport dewar (Spine & UniPuck) | 5C122B; Ju | 2 weeks | Flat fee 750,- |
| Octet red 96 | 5A112dB; Juha | 4 h | 400,- / 800,- Supply (optional) – SSA sensors (140,-) |
| Tecan Spark | 5A122bB; Juha | 1 h | 100,- / 200,- |
| Mosquito HV | 5A122bB; Anne | 1 h | 200,- / 400,- Supply – tips (mandatory) |
| Biacore T200 | 5A116aB; Anne | 24 h | 1440,- / 2880,- |
Training/Supervised fee for academic users: booking fee + 600,- /h
Training/Supervised fee for non-academic users: booking fee + 750,- /h
Conditions of use
The instruments and services of BiSS are available to both internal and external academic and industrial users.
If you have used BiSS services and / or instrumentation for a publication, you must acknowledge the use of BiSS in your publication as follows:
"We acknowledge the use of the Core Facility for Biophysics, Structural Biology, and Screening (BiSS) at the University of Bergen, which has received infrastructure funding from the Research Council of Norway (RCN) through NORCRYST (grant number 245828) and NOR–OPENSCREEN (grant number 245922)."
In addition, for synchrotron data collected under the various BAGs, the corresponding infrastructure must be acknowledged.
You should inform us of any resulting publications, as we need to report publication data to the funding agency.
Furthermore, users in Norway must link their publications in Cristin to the respective infrastructure grants mentioned above.
