Core Facility (COREF)

Core Facility at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences consists of several units that provide advanced equipment and qualified human resources.

The Cytof2 is part of the Core Facility equipment. Photo: Peter Karlsson / Svarteld

Core Facility at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences at Linköping University is a research infrastructure and consists of several platforms that provide a cost-effective access to advanced instrumentation, training, consulting and qualified specialized services withing following areas: Mass Spectrometry; Flow Cytometry and CyTOF Mass Cytometry; Molecular biology; Microscopy; and Bioinformatics.

Core Facility is a collaboration between the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and the Region Östergötland. Our specialized laboratories are equipped with unique, usually state-of-the-art, instruments and services, and managed by scientists with the technical expertise and research experience to help another researcher. Core Facility is open to all internal and external research groups.

Plattforms

Bioinformatics

Core Facility offers bioinformatics support. Our services range from consultation meetings to custom-tailored analyses in projects with high throughput biological data.

CyTOF - Mass Cytometry

The Flow Cytometry Unit is home to Sweden's first Mass Cytometer, a CyTOF 2 from DVS Sciences / Fluidigm, which is a part of the national resource for mass cytometry.

Flow Cytometry

Flow Cytometry is used to measures physical and biological parameters of single cells in suspension.

Mass Spectrometry

The Mass Spectrometry laboratory at Core Facility provides instrumentation, expertise and assistance for the analyses of a broad range of compounds for applications for the benefit of the local research community.

Microscopy

Microscopy Unit is part of Core Facility and is an open resource for advanced microscopy for research groups within the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences as well as external users.

Molecular biology

Click here to read about which equipment that are available at the Molecular Biology unit at Core Facility.

Booking Calender

Booking of instruments at Core Facility

Click here to learn about how you book instruments at Core Facility and to find the booking calendar.

Other resources

Forum Östergötland (FO)

Forum Östergötland is a support function for clinical and translational research at Linköping University and Region Östergötland. We are a part of the regional node Forum Southeast in the national collaboration Clinical Studies Sweden.

Biobank Facility (BBF)

The aim of the Biobank Facility is to organize the handling, to ensure and guarantee the quality of biobank samples and associated information in order to strengthen and facilitate research and development.