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Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU)

Research infrastructure The Biochemical Imaging Centre Umeå (BICU) is a national infrastructure that provides state-of-the-art microscopy technology, including advanced light microscopy and atomic force microscopy. Together with UCEM, BICU forms a node in the National Microscopy Infrastructure (NMI), Sweden for Correlative imaging. Please contact us for further information: info.bicu@umu.se

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Light Microscopy

We provide advanced live cell imaging techniques.

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Correlative Imaging

We can perform correlative imaging.

AFM
Atomic Force Microscopy

Our AFM can be used to scan various surfaces.

Services provided at BICU

  • Consultation prior to imaging.
  • Technical support for image acquisition.
  • Personal training to provide drivers licence per instrument.
  • Assistance with Image analysis (including image pre-processing: improvement of image quality and intermediate processing: segmentation of the image. We are not involved in high level image processing: model prediction).

Laboratory space, cell culture room and incubators are available for external users, too.

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BICU Staff Contacts

Contacts for all BICU staff

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Access and Booking

More information to access and book different BICU instruments.

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BICU Policy

Learn about how we run our facility

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News and Media

BICU-related news and media

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Publications

List of recent publications

Host Department

Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, KBC, Umea Universitet (UMU)

Funding bodies

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Latest update: 2025-01-17