RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE. The Celldiscoverer 7, an automated high content screening widefield and confocal microscope, creates completely new opportunities for studies on living cells and tissues. The microscope is available at the Centre for Cellular Imaging (CCI), which is part of Core Facilities at Sahlgrenska Academy. A unique feature is that the microscope can combine different light microscopy methods in one single system to create sharp and functional images for specific…
Eight University of Gothenburg researchers received SEK 18 million from the Lundberg Research Foundation
GRANTS. The Lundberg Research Foundation has awarded grants to 19 researchers, primarily for equipment for use in research of cancer, orthopedics, and kidney diseases. Of the 36 million that the foundation has awarded, half is going to researchers at the University of Gothenburg. One of the researchers whose application was successful is Inger Gjertsson, who has been awarded SEK 2.5 million to purchase an advanced automated microscope. It will be…
Agneta Holmäng: Welcome back – for remote studies, campus studies or both
COLUMN. As the semester gets started, much of the work normally done on campus will continue taking place online and remotely. As we begin an unusual autumn, we are prepared to quickly adjust to changing conditions, writes Agneta Holmäng in her welcome message to students and staff. Welcome to a new semester at Sahlgrenska Academy! An unusual spring has now become an unusual autumn. The virus continues to spread in…
Continued VR support for four national infrastructures
RESEARCH CONDITIONS. Sambio Core Facilities had reason to celebrate at the end of last week, when it was announced that all the national infrastructures in which the platforms participate will continue to receive support from the Swedish Research Council (VR). Core Facilities at the University of Gothenburg participates in four of the eleven infrastructure initiatives awarded grants by VR. “We were extremely happy and proud after receiving notification from VR…
Gothenburg’s Helios mass cytometer inaugurated
INFRASTRUCTURE. After several years of hard work to put together the funding and premises, Gothenburg’s mass cytometer is now in place in the Clinical Chemistry Department at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The instrument, the most advanced of its kind in Sweden, combines flow cytometry with mass spectrometry. Christine Wennerås, professor of clinical bacteriology, is delighted that the instrument is now in place. She believes that a wide range of researchers in…