Research infrastructure

ARIADNE+ is the European infrastructure for archaeological data. Via SEAD/Swedigarch, Umeå University provides environmental archaeology metadata to the portal.

BICU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art imaging technology together with affinity measurements. The facility allows advanced live cell imaging studies and measurement of interactions of proteins with other proteins, RNA, lipids and carbohydrates. Together with UCEM, BICU forms a node in the National Microscopy Infrastructure (NMI), Sweden for Correlative imaging.

An instrument facility for biogeochemical analyses

MT-R&D’s development and research support is a research infrastructure that offers extensive technical competence and equipment to researchers and healthcare professionals. By doing so, the infrastructure supports the implementation of research and development projects.

BMCU is an interdisciplinary facility that provides state-of-the-art technology to characterize biomolecules. The facility allows measurements of affinity using different technologies, together with molecular weight analysis, folding and overall structure.

The Biopolymer Analytical Platform (former UPSC Plant Cell Wall and Carbohydrate Analytical Facility) has been an official KBC facility since 2018 and is dedicated to support research among KBC groups on cell walls of terrestrial and aquatic plants, and biopolymer materials. A large range of standard methods have been established with various sample preparation equipment for conventional wet chemistry methods and with state-of-the-art analytical instrument setups

CBCS Umeå can help researchers find and develop small molecules to understand and decipher the function of biological pathways. We aim to create powerful tools for your research and set the ground for generating new leads for drug discovery.

CASP is a data analytics platform at Umeå University that provides support and training to life science researchers in the analysis of experimental data, using advanced data-driven tools and strategies.

Euro-BioImaging is a European research infrastructure that provides world-class biological and biomedical imaging services to life science researchers across Europe.

Gas Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometry (IRMS) is an open-access facility which provides a unique highly-sensitive detection of gaseous products and their stable isotopologues in a broad range of biological, geochemical, environmental, and chemical samples both in gas and liquid phases.

High Performance Computing Center North (HPC2N) is a national center for Scientific and Parallel Computing.

The mesocosms are used for ecological and toxicological experiments in harsh and icy conditions.

Integrated Science Lab, IceLab, seeks to be a hub for communication and collaboration in the life sciences at Umeå University. We take a modelling approach for causal understanding and connect researchers from different backgrounds.

Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (UMF) analyzes marine samples, participates in international calibrations and is specialized in brackish water biology and chemistry. Analyses are performed on the request of government agencies and universities, supporting research and environmental monitoring. The analyses are accredited by Swedac.

MAXS offers state-of-the-art X-ray diffraction, total X-ray scattering, and X-ray reflectometry with several sample environments for advanced material characterization to users from academy, industry, or public sectors. The platform also offers a comprehensive data evaluation environment with access to extensive reference databases for data collected at MAXS or elsewhere, including compatibility with data from synchrotron light sources.

NanoLab is an open-access infrastructure, providing facilities in nano materials characterization located at the Department of Physics.

The National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden, NAISS, is an infrastructure organisation for high-performance computing (HPC), storage, and data services for academic users in Sweden.

NBIS provides bioinformatics and data science support to the Swedish life science research community. We offer a broad spectrum of services, including advanced bioinformatics analysis, bioimage informatics, data management, imaging AI support, systems and tools development, and support to national compute resources.

The Swedish national research infrastructure for microscopy in life sciences NMI provides open access to state-of-the-art equipment and expertise in microscopy, and coordinates the participation in international microscopy infrastructures (EuroBioImaging).

This infrastructure is based on a number of spectrometers (360-850 MHz) and provides support for NMR analysis of a wide variety of samples, everything from small organic molecules to proteins and new materials for materials science . The infrastructure is a node in the national networks SciLife Lab, SwedNMR and the Swedish NMR Centre.

PEP is the Umeå node of the national infrastructure Protein Production Sweden (PPS).

At Umeå Marine Sciences Centre (UMF), research vessels are available for research and environmental monitoring. UMF conducts regular sampling activities all year around in the Gulf of Bothnia, and when possible, projects and sampling activities are coordinated.

SweDigArch is a national distributed infrastructure for digital archaeology that provides expertise, services and resources for digitising archaeological data.

The national research infrastructure SBDI provides biodiversity data such as information about populations of plants, animals and other life forms, as well as analysis tools and updated taxonomies.

The Swedish Metabolomics Centre (SMC) is a facility specialized in the use of mass spectrometry based methods for analysis of metabolites in different biological systems.

SwedNMR is a national research infrastructure that provides access to state-of-the-art NMR instrumentation as well as expert support in all fields of NMR spectroscopy.

Umeå University is one of the participants in the Swedish Research Vessel Infrastructure for Marine Research, SWERVE, which is a national infrastructure initiative funded by the Swedish Research Council (VR). SWERVE will improve the conditions for Swedish ship-based marine research, by giving Swedish marine researchers enhanced access to ships, equipment, technical expertise, and data.

Welcome to Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, a national resource. We conduct and support contract research in connection to cultural- and environmental conservation.

The Laserlab Umeå comprises a collection of laboratories using lasers for their research.

The Mesocosm Facility at Umeå Marine Sciences Centre is one of Europe's most advanced. The mesocosms provide possibilities to conduct large scale water and sediment experiments under highly controlled conditions. The mesocosm facility is available for researchers from universities all over the world.

The trace analysis platform (TAP) at the Department of Chemistry, Umeå University aims to provide state-of-the-art equipment, instrumentation, user training and support for trace analysis of small molecules in complex matrices, such as environmental and biological samples.

The infrastructure offers a combination of multiphoton and imaging systems at high spatio-temporal resolution, combined with other physiological equipment for electrophysiology and imaging, in the living organism (mammals, zebrafish, etc), but also in vitro experiments.

Umeå Centre for Electron Microscopy (UCEM) is a university and national resource for research and higher education in electron microscopy techniques.

A facility for performing experiments under hypoxic conditions has been created at the Molecular Biology Department at Umeå University.

UMeHealth is a regional competence centre for research, education and collaboration on intelligent, person-tailored eHealth interventions, behaviour change systems and decision support. UMeHealth strives to be a cross-disciplinary meeting point that transcends knowledge domains and engages citizens in developing their future digital tools for improving health and wellbeing.

We are an open-access infrastructure, providing infrared and Raman spectroscopy and microspectroscopy services for local, national and international users, both academic and non-academic.

XPS Platform provides surface analysis by X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Ultraviolet Photoelectron Spectroscopy (UPS), and Low Energy Inverse Photoemission Spectroscopy (LEIPS) techniques. A full range of conventional XPS measurements is available, including monochromatic Al Kα excitation, angle-resolved XPS, XPS imaging, and cryogenic measurements of hydrated (wet) samples.