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Research support services (RSS)
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Microscopy
Unit (SCT-UB) www.sct.ub.es:801
- Functions:
- Confocal optical microscopy
- Scanning electronic microscopy
- Electronic transmission microscopy
- Equipment:
- Leica TCS NT confocal microscope (HC)
- Leica TCS-SL inverted confocal microscope (IDIBAPS)
- Zeiss DSM940A scanning electronic microscope (HC)
- JEAL JEM1001 electronic transmission microscope
(UB)
- Ultramicrotom Ultracut UCT with Reichert Jung
EM FCS cryo unit (UB)
- AFS cryosubstitution system (IDIBAPS)
- Scientific Coordinator:
- Dr.
Carles Enrich (UB)
- Personnel:
- Dr. Marta
Taulés. Specialist Technician - III (SCT-UB). Electronic
transmission.
- Mrs. Elisenda Coll. Specialist Technician - II
(SCT-UB). Scanning electronic.
- Dr. Maria Calvo. Specialist Technician (FIS-IDIBAPS).
Inverted confocal.
- Mrs. Anna Bosch. Specialist Technician (IDIBAPS).
Confocal.
- Location:
- SCT-UB 6th floor of the Faculty of Medicine (~
50 m2).
- Provisional space in the Dept. of Cell Biology
and Pathological Anatomy on the 3rd floor of the
Faculty of Medicine. (Inverted confocal microscopy)
(~ 20 m2).
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Neurological
tissue bank (SCT-UB)
- Functions:
- To provide the research laboratories with phenotyped
tissues
- To provide the research laboratories with cDNA
from tissues
- Equipment:
- Cabins for obtaining material under sterile conditions
(SCT-UB)
- Tools to prepare samples for microscopy (SCT-UB)
- Storage units for the collection of paraffin-embedded
samples (SCT-UB)
- Scientific Coordinator:
- Dr.
Eduard Tolosa (HC-UB)
- Personnel:
- Dr. Adriana Cardozo. Chief Neurologist. Senior
Technician - I (UB)
- Dr. Maria Jesús Rey. Chief Neuropathologist. Senior
Technician - I (UB)
- Mrs. Rosa Ribera. Specialist Technician - III
(UB)
- Location:
- Ground floor, staircase 10 HC (~ 40 m2).
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Radioisotope
Service (UB)
- Functions:
- Administrative management of documents according
to current legislation.
- Management of radioprotection and user training.
- Management of radioactive material.
- Technical management of the functioning and maintenance
of specific and specialised equipment.
- Equipment:
- Wallac 1400 liquid scintillation counter (UB).
- Packard Multi-Prias 1 solid scintillation counter
(UB).
- Packard Cobra II solid scintillation counter (UB).
- Scientific Coordinator:
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- Personnel:
- Mrs. Cristina Sánchez. Supervisor in charge of
the radioactive area #2265. Specialist Technician
II (UB).
- Location:
- Administration and counter room on the 5th floor
of the Faculty of Medicine (~ 25 m2) .
- Radioactive waste store on the ground floor of
the Faculty of Medicine (~ 30 m2).
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Animal House
(UB)
- Functions:
- To comply with existing legislation on the protection
of animals used for experiments and other scientific
purposes. To form part of the Ethics Committee on
Animal Experimentation (CEEA).
- To provide experimental operating theatres.
- To cross-breed animals and maintain colonies of
transgenic, knock-out and special strain rats.
- To supervise the collection of dead animals.
- Equipment:
- Cages and racks (FC + UB )
- Extractor hoods (UB + FC)
- Tissue-fixing hood (UB)
- Siemens RX equipment (FC)
- Experimental operating theatres (UB + FC))
- Surgical magnifying glasses (UB)
- Ventilators (UB + FC)
- Anaesthesia equipment (UB)
- Autoclave (UB)
- Washing system and bottle washing apparatus (UB)
- Equipment for transgenic animals (IDIBAPS)
- Scientific Coordinators:
- Dr.
Oriol Bachs (UB)
- Dr.
Ramon Gomis (HC)
- Dr.
Josep Mª Tusell (CSIC)
- Personnel:
- Dr. Amèrica Giménez. Head of Animal House. Senior
Technician (UB).
- Mr. David Almató. Experimenter. Animal House Technician
III (UB).
- Mrs. Dolores Ruiz. Keeper. Animal House Officer
IV (UB).
- Mrs. Blanca Caballero. Keeper. Animal House Officer
(FC).
- Mrs. Carmen Berbel. Keeper. Animal House Officer
(FC).
- Mrs. Carme Clèries. Experimenter. Animal House
Technician (CSIC + IDIBAPS)
- Dr. Ramon Gomis (HC)
- Dr. Josep Mª Tussell (CSIC)
- Location:
- 6th floor Faculty of Medicine (~600 m2).
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Medical Library
(UB) www.bib.ub.es/bub/abub.htm
- Functions:
- To provide support to teaching and research.
- To meet needs in terms of scientific information,
learning, research and continuous education by acquiring,
cataloguing, storing and making available an adequate
collection of books, journals and documents in any
format.
- Equipment:
- Journals: 2,666 issues
- Monographs: 27,000 volumes
- 317 reading points.
- 1 video players.
- 2 self-service photocopiers.
- Microfiche reader/printer
- 35 computers for consulting catalogues, databases
and Internet (10 exclusively for Internet connection)
- Room set aside in which lecturers and doctors
of Barcelona's Hospital Clínic can consult
journals.
- Scientific Coordinators:
- Dr.
Ramon Estruch (HC)
- Dr.
Ramon Farré (UB)
- Personnel:
- Mrs. Cristina Güell. Head of Area (UB)
Mrs. Coral Bacchetta. Chief Librarian (UB)
Sra. Cristina Adán. Obtaining and accounting
of documents (UB)
Sra. Maria Delofeu. Obtaining and accounting of
documents (UB)
Mrs. M. Àngels Esteban. Lending (UB)
Sra. Carme Guasch. Binding (UB)
Mrs. Maria Jaumejoan. Journals (UB)
Sr. Albert Màrquez. Préstec i tenció
a l’usuari (UB)
Mrs. Rosa M. Riu. Reference information and classification
(UB)
Sra. Anna Salvadó. Cataloguing (UB)
Sra. Raquel Torrent. Thematic Librarian (UB)
Mrs. M. Rosa Zaborras. Web sites, electronic dossiers
and cataloguing (UB)
- Location:
- Faculty of Medicine (~3.000 m2).
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Genomics Unit
(IDIBAPS)
http://172.16.25.215/genomica.html
(IDIBAPS staff only)
- Functions:
- Analysis of gene expression
- Genomic analysis
- Preparation of cDNA and oligonucleotide microchips
- Equipment:
- GeneChip Affymetrix genetic analysis system (IDIBAPS)
- Axon 4000B Scanner (IDIBAPS)
- 2 high-throughput PCR (IDIBAPS)
- Centrífuge for microplates (IDIBAPS)
- Wave DNA fragment analysis system (IDIBAPS)
- Liquid transfer robot (IDIBAPS)
- Collection of clones for genomic applications
(IDIBAPS / UB)
- Scientific Coordinator:
- Dr.
Elías Campo (HC-UB)
- Personnel:
- Dr.
Pedro Jares. Senior Technician (IDIBAPS)
- Location:
- Centre for Biomedical Diagnosis, Hospital Clínic
(staircase 9, 5th floor).
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Proteomics
Unit (IDIBAPS)
- Functions:
- Separation of peptides and proteins.
- Characterisation and sequencing of peptides and
proteins.
- Equipment:
- Protean IPG Bio-Rad system for separating proteins
by pI by strips. (IDIBAPS)
- Protean Dodecacell Bio-Rad gel separation (SDS-PAGE)
system (IDIBAPS)
- Mini Protean Dodecacell Bio-Rad gel separation
(SDS-PAGE) system (IDIBAPS)
- PDQUEST Bio-Rad software for analysing two-dimensional
gels (IDIBAPS)
- G-810 Bio-Rad scanner for digitalising gels (IDIBAPS)
- Bio-Rad Fluoro-S analyser (IDIBAPS)
- Solution automatic genomic digester (IDIBAPS)
- MALDITOF Voyager DE Perseptive (IDIBAPS)
- Thermo Finnigan NanoESI-Ion Trap LCQ DECA XP (IDIBAPS)
- Thermo Finnigan MicroHPLC Surveyor (IDIBAPS)
- Scientific Coordinator:
- Dr.
Oriol Bachs (UB) (provisional)
- Personnel:
- Dr. Josep Maria Estanyol. Provisional Head (Technician
from the Dept. of Cell Biology and Pathological
Anatomy - UB).
- Location:
- Provisional space in the Dept. of Cell Biology
and Pathological Anatomy on the 1st and 3rd floors
of the Faculty of Medicine (~70 m2).
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Bioinformtics
Unit (IDIBAPS)
http://172.16.25.215/bioinformatica.html
(IDIBAPS staff only)
- Functions:
- Bioinformatic support for the different research
lines, specially in genomics and proteomics projects.
- Developing new bioinformatic analysis tools.
- Equipment:
Two work stations Intel®.
Xeon™ 2.79Ghz. 2.00 GB de RAM, 200 GB hard disk.
One with Linux operating system, which works as an
internal server.
- Scientific
coordinator:
Dra.
Susana Kalko (IDIBAPS)
- Location:
- Provisional space in the Villarroel Helios Building,
office number 24.
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Cytomics
Unit (IDIBAPS). Flux Cytometry Service and Cell Sorting
www.idibaps.ub.edu/citomica
- Functions:
- Cellular cycle, apoptosis, multicolor and functional
analysis.
- Separation and counting of isolated cells.
- Equipment:
- FACSCalibur flux cytometer (IDIBAPS)
- FACS Vantage SE cell sorter (IDIBAPS)
- Director:
Dr. Jordi Petriz (IDIBAPS)
- Scientific Coordinators:
- Dr. Pablo Engel (UB)
Dr. Ramón Gomis (Clínic)
Dr. Pedro Marín (Clínic)
Dra. Concepció Mora (FIS-IDIBAPS)
- Personnel:
- Isabel Crespo. Specialist technician (IDIBAPS)
Isabel Sánchez. Specialist technician (IDIBAPS)
- Location:
- Provisional IDIBAPS space on the 3rd floor of
the Faculty of Medicine (~10m2).
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Nanobiotechnology
Unit (IDIBAPS)
- Functions:
- Force microscopy of biomolecules and cells.
- Molecular and cellular nanomanipulation.
- Force spectroscopy.
- Equipment:
- Bioscope Digital Instruments Atomic Force Microscope
(IDIBAPS)
- Scientific Coordinator:
- Dr.
Daniel Navajas (UB) (provisional)
- Personnel:
- To be appointed
- Location:
- Provisional space in the Dept. of Physiological
Sciences I on the 5th floor of the Faculty of Medicine
(~10 m2).
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Image Analysis
Unit (HC)
- Functions:
- Spectroscopy
- Functional neuro-imaging
- Cardiac and vascular resonance programmes
- Equipment:
- General Electric CV1 Nuclear Magnetic Resonance(HC)
- Scientific Coordinator:
- Dra.
Rosa Gilabert (HC)
- Personnel:
- Dr. Carles Falcón. Senior Technician (SCT-UB).
Research support with RMN
- Location:
- Centre for Image Diagnosis of the HC.
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Unit for
the Optical Recording of Cell Signals
- Functions:
- In vivo recording of cell signals by means of
digital epifluorescence microscopy: variations in
the concentration of calcium and other ions
- Equipment:
- Photometrics CH-250 CCD Camera (FC)
- Nikon Diaphot-300 Microscope (FC)
- Medical Systems thermostatic cell incubation chamber
(FC)
- World Precision Instruments C/V stimulator (FC)
- Narishige Micromanipulation (FC)
- Scientific Coordinators:
- Dr.
Arcadi Gual (UB)
- Dr.
Josep M. Nicolás (HC) (provisionals)
- Personnel:
- Mrs. Ester Tobias. Provisional Head. (Technician
from the Dept. of Medicine - UB)
- Location:
- Provisional space in the Dept. of Physiological
Sciences I on the 1st floor of the Faculty of Medicine
(~20 m2).
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Cell Culture
Unit (HC)
- Functions:
- Training and technical assistance regarding cell
culture
- Obtaining primary cell cultures.
- Culture and maintenance of cell lines./li>
- Equipment:
- Incubators
- Laminar flow cabins
- Centrifuges
- Microscopes
- Scientific Coordinator:
- Dr.
Wladimiro Gimenez (HC)
- Personnel:
- Mrs. Josefa Ros. Superior Technician (FIS - HC)
- Location:
- Centre for Biological Diagnosis 5th floor HC (~15
m2).
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DNA Sequencing
and Oligonucleotide Synthesis Unit (HC)
- Functions:
- DNA sequencing
- Analysis of fragments
- Oligonucleotide synthesis
- Equipment:
- Three Applied-Biosystems genetic analysers (IDIBAPS)
- Two Applied-Biosystems oligonucleotide synthesizer
(IDIBAPS)
- Scientific Coordinator:
- Dr.
Joan Clària. (HC)
- Personnel:
- Mrs. Montserrat Bernat. Specialist Technician.
(IDIBAPS)
- Mrs. Carmen Escofet. Specialist Technician (HC)
- Location:
- Centre for Biological Diagnosis. 5th floor HC
(~10 m2).
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Non-Neurological
Tissue Bank (HC)
- Functions:
- To create and maintain a repository of tissues
for research use.
- To provide researchers with tissue samples and
histological sections.
- To prepare tissue microarrays.
- To provide support in the microdissection of tissues.
- Equipment:
- Freezers with safety systems
- Robot for preparing tissue microarrays
- Tissue microdissection microscope with laser
- Coordinators:
- Dr.
Dr. Elías Campo (HC)
- Dr.
Pedro Fernández (HC)
- Personnel:
- Mrs. Iracema
Nayach (FC)
- Location:
- Pathological Anatomy Service (HC)
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Evaluation,
Support and Prevention Unit (HC)
- Functions:
- Research management.
- Methodological support to research projects.
- Clinical trials.
- Equipment:
- Clinical trial unit with six monitored beds.
- Computer hardware and software for biostatistics
and epidemiology.
- Scientific Coordinators:
- Dr.
Antoni Trilla. Director of the Unit, responsible
for evaluation and methodological support (HC).
- Dr.
Pedro Luis Alonso. Head of International Health
(HC)
- Dr. Xavier Carné. Chief Clinical Pharmacologist
and Teaching Coordinator (HC)
- Personnel:
- Dr. John Jairo Aponte. Medical Specialist. Statistician
(HC)
- Dr. Joan Albert Arnaiz. Medical Specialist. Clinical
Pharmacology (HC)
- Dr. M. Jesus Bertran. Medical Specialist. Epidemiologist
(HC)
- Dr. Yolanda López. Chemist (HC)
- Dr. Clara Menéndez Medical Specialist. Epidemiologist
- Dr Margarita. Navia. Biologist (HC)
- Mr. Llorenç Quintó. Senior Technician in Statistics
(IDIBAPS)
- Dr. Neus Riba. Medical Specialist. Clinical Pharmacology
(HC)
- Mr. Sergi Sanz. Senior Technician in Statistics
(HC)
- Dr. Maria Sarasa. Chemist (HC)
- Location:
- Staircase 4 first floor, staircase 2 basement,
and staircase 4 fourth floor of the HC; first floor
and space on the fifth floor of the out-patient's
building of the HC.
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IDIBAPS
Warehouse - Shop (IDIBAPS) www.idibaps.ub.edu/botiga (catalan version)
- Functions:
- Management of the research purchases inside IDIBAPS.
Purchases will work through SAP.
- Internal distribution of purchased items.
- Coordinator:
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Sr. Joan González (IDIBAPS)
- Personnel:
- Sra. Anna Beato. Lab Manager (IDIBAPS)
- Sra. Núria Castro. Administration (FCRB)
- Sr. Lluís Córdoba. Purchases (HC)
- Sra. Carmen Onieva. Purchases (HC)
- Sr. Gaspar Álvarez. SAP training (IDIBAPS)
- Location:
- IDIBAPS Warehouse - Shop. Hospital Clínic
of Barcelona. Floor 0, between stairs 4 and 6, door
4C.
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