Facility Manager: Oddmund Bakke
Head Engineer: Frode M. Skjeldal
Head Engineer: Linda H. Haugen
Advisory Member: Xian Hu
Location: Kristine Bonnevies hus
Blindernveien 31, 0371 Oslo, Norway
Instruments:
Microscopes:
- Olympus SpinSR SoRa, room 3604
- Zeiss LSM880 (Zeiss), room 3103
- Andor DragonFly, room 3103
- Andor Revolution XD spinning disk, room 3626a
- Olympus FluoView 1000 inverted, room 3604
- Olympus FluoView 1000 upright, room 2616
- Leica TIRF Microscope, room 3604
Workstation:
- Analysis Workstations, room 2616, 3604 and 3103
Booking system - BookitLab:
The Oslo NorMIC Imaging facility at IBV using BookitLab as our booking system. This is an online laboratory facility event information and booking system. All invoicing and management of our imaging facility is administrated through this booking system.
Click here to download a Short User Guide to BookitLab
As a user of BookitLab you will be able to do the following:
- Book training with the facility staff
- Book the different microscopes and workstations
- Email messages to the facility staff
- See data reports and invoice information
- Get updated information from the facility staff
Booking rules:
- You can book three time slots per week.
- The time slots should not exceed 4 hours.
- Preferred booking slots would be 08.00-12-00 and 12.00-16.00.
- For longer experiments, afternoon sessions are advised.
- Cancellations have to be 24 hrs in advance, otherwise notice the imaging facility staff.
- If you have special requirements for you experiments, please contact the imaging facility staff.
Links:
Go to the UiO BookitLab login page
Description of services:
The IBV imaging facility offers training on our microscopes (confocal, TIRF or widefield microscopy), assistance in different imaging techniques and analysis/processing of data.
Publications, news and events:
- News
- Events and workshops
- Publications (pdf)
About the NorMIC Imaging Platform
The NorMIC Imaging platform at the Institute for Biosciences (IBV) imaging platform is together with a facility at the University Hospital, Montebello a platform node in the Eurobioimaging system. The IBV platform is a specialized microscopy unit for the subcellular study of living and fixed cells. The instrumentation includes advanced confocal laser scanning microscopes with super resolution capabilities, total internal reflection (TIRF) microscopy, electron microscopy (EM) and wide-field fluorescence microscopy. A main focus has been the dynamics of intracellular vesicle traffic, cell division, cell migration and immune cell interactions in addition to imaging of fixed samples. We have also experience in studies of plants, zebrafish and small organs and we are open for new challenges.
The organization of the Imaging Platform as a core facility implies that all researchers in Norway are welcome users at equal terms through our booking system. The Imaging Platform offers technical expertise, use of confocal instruments after booking/availability (new users will need to go through training/assessment procedure) and access to immuno-EM techniques. We also offer imaging courses, in particular the NorMIC series funded by Centre for Digital Life, (digitallifenorway.org). . The advanced imaging instrument have mostly been funded by grants from the Norwegian Research council.