Common Services (ACTC+Molecular Biology)
GINYS-IDIBELL-011
The objective of the Common Services Unit is to provide optimal spaces and equipments to support IDIBELL staff research. The unit also offers specific working laboratories as Biosafety Level 2 rooms, to work with specific biological agents, and a Radioactivity Installation, in order to guarantee a safe working environment.
Services
- Cell culture laboratories
- Cryogenics: to provide spaces and equipments for samples cryo-preservation. Our unit also coordinate/supervise cryogenic monitor/alarm softwares (Pyxeca, Syintesis, Sirius), and provide backup ultrafreezers and nitrogen tanks.
- Technical Rooms: to manage common equipments.
- Washing and sterilization service: clean and sterilize plastic and glass labware, liquid sterilization, prepare bacteria growth media and plates.
- Biosafety Level 2 Laboratories (retroviruse room, adenovirus room, human sample room). Restrictedd access.
- Radioactivity Installation (IRA1145) 2nd category. Restricted access.
Equipment
- Class 2 Biosafety cabinets. Incubators.
- Ultralow -80ªC freezers and nitrogen tanks (liquid and gas) at -180 ºC.
- Ultracentrifugues.
- Gel Imaging systems, Real Time PCRs, ultrasonicators, elisa readers, DNA and RNA extractors, etc.
- Matachana and Selecta sterilizers.
