IB Research Groups Facilities

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Equipment Name Remarks Research Group(s) 1 2D-TLC 5 2 3D tomography 3 - 14 3 Advanced biophysical techniques and molecular biology 6 4 Aggregometer Clotting assays. Clinical Chemistry and Haematology 12 5 Antibodies specific for post-translational modifications of proteins & Mobility shift analysis on Advantage: study processing and trafficking of proteins in cells 1 - 3 6 Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) Drs. D.N. Ganchev 6 7 Bactericidal assays 1 8 Beckman-Coulter Biomek FX 15 9 Bio-Rad 2100MP multi-photon microscope 11 10 Biochemistry depletion of fluorescence labeled lipids with BSA 5 11 Bioinformatics: conserved domains database 1 12 Biophysics e.g. pulling tubes out of liposomes: study the relationship between lipid composition and curvature. 5 13 Black lipid bilayer 1 14 Black lipid film experiments to measure the size and the specificity of pores 1 15 Cell culture 7 16 Center for cellular imaging (CCB) 10 17 Circular Dichroism (CD) Dr. Maarten Engel, to analyze secondary structure of proteins 6 18 Confocal microscopy 7 - 14 19 Construction of (conditional) mutants, expression systems 1 20 Correlative live cell-immuno electron microscopy (CLEM) Advantage: combines advantages of LM and EM 3 - 14 21 CSLM Dr. Dmitri Sakharov [2532852] 5 22 Detergent-insolubility raft? DRM? or artifact? 5 23 Differential scanning calorimetry to analyze the energy of interactions 6 24 Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC) Ing. M.C. Koorengevel 6 25 Digestion with proteases to study membrane insertion 1 26 Drosophila facility (D2 level for genetically modified organisms) Fly work, stocks, crosses. Please contact me for availability as the suite is small. 14 27 ECG = electro-cardiography 13 28 Ectopic ion channel expression 13 29 Electron microscopy 3 - 14 30 ELISA 1 31 ELISA (commercial) ELISA (in house) Diagnostic tool Investment in 6 markers, 2 semi-automatic robots available. Clinical Chemistry and Haematology ... 12 32 EM facility SEM (dual beam SEM FIB) TEM 3 33 EM tomography To generate 3D images of cellular membrane structures. Cell Biology UMCU / Molecular Cell Biology. 3 - 14 34 Expression and purification of membrane proteins 5 35 FACS 10 36 FACS Ing. Joep van Dikkenberg email. 5 37 FACS sorting Advantage: less preparation work, handle large amount of cells once but can also handle, relatively small amou ... 11 38 Fluorescence activated cell sorter 10 39 Fluorescence microscopy 1 - 3 - 6 - 7 - 14 - 15 40 Freeze-Fracture technique (EM) 3 41 French Press For cell lysis (large scale) 1 42 FRET-FLIM: study interactions between fluorescence labeled proteins Dr. G. Posthuma [2536548] 14 43 General microbiology techniques 1 44 Genome wide expression analysis 1 45 Gst pull down 15 46 GUV = Giant Unilamellar Vesicle to study membrane-protein interactions 6 47 High pressure freezing equipment (for fast fixing specimen for microscopy) 3 - 14 48 High Speed Ultra Beckman ultra 1 49 Immuno Electron microscopy Both TEM and SEM for cell and vessel imaging. Cell Biology UMCU Immuno EM also provides information about prot ... 12 50 Immuno-electron microscopy 3 - 14 Next Last Records 1 to 50 of 135