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The Bioimaging Core Facility provide state-of-the-art equipment for a wide range of light microscopy applications. All system setups are designed to cover most bioimaging applications with a strong focus to meet future requirements and minimize complexity towards the users. The Bioimaging Core Facility focus on microscopy knowledge sharing and in addition they offer access to advanced bioimaging software, expertise in image data analysis, and project based microscopy education.
We specialise in cardiovascular and metabolic phenotyping in the broadest sense - both for researchers at the department and for external clients. We mainly focus on cardiovascular phenotyping, but also offer advice, guidance and technical assistance on general surgeries, blood sampling and tissue collection.
CONNECT is a consulting service helping researchers make use of health data in personalized medicine research. We offer 10 hours of research support free of charge within our areas of expertise: register-based research, statistical analysis, data management, bioinformatics, and genetic analysis. We can help in any stage of your project, from study design and methodological considerations to analysis and interpretation of data. CONNECT can also help answer some of the legal questions arising when working with health data.
The laboratory, which is highly specialised within endocrinology and diabetes, carries out advanced metabolic examinations of healthy volunteers and patients; develops new hormone analyses for improved diagnostics and treatment; sets-up cell and tissue models to clarify cellular disease processes; and works with biomarker research for identification of e.g. late-diabetic complications and cardiovascular disease. The laboratory’s services are offered to researchers and clinicians from all of the country's universities and hospitals.
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The FACS core facility is equipped with three cell sorting instruments: Two FACSAria IIIs and one MoFlo Astrios. In addition, the FACS core facility also has two analysers at its disposal; a LSRFortessa with 4 lasers as well as a NovoCyte with 3 lasers. Furthermore, facility users have access to a combined microscope and flow cytometer – an ImageStream. The FACS core facility provides services to all research groups at Aarhus University. Researchers from other universities and from business and industry are also welcome.
GenomeDK is a high-performance computing facility, dedicated to genomics and life sciences, which offers access to 6400 cores and 12 PB of storage. This makes it possible for users to run very intensive computations using a lot of data in a secure environment. We provide services to researchers at Aarhus University, other universities, as well and small and medium-sized enterprises.
Aarhus University's climate chambers are among the best in the world for studying how environmental conditions affect human health. In the climate chambers we can conduct experiments that require precise and documented exposure to specific climatic conditions. These may be e.g. a desert climate (dry-warm), Artic climate (dry-cold) or tropical climate (humid-warm).
The Mass Cytometry Unit provides equipment and service for both suspension mass cytometry (SMC, CyTOF, Helios) and imaging mass cytometry (IMC, Hyperion). SMC mixes the fundamentals of flow cytometry with suspension mass spectrometry, and IMC allows the analysis of tissue samples with laser scanning spatial resolution. MCU provides services to all research groups at Aarhus University. Researchers from other universities and from business and industry are also welcome.
MOMA possesses equipment and extensive experience to conduct various molecular analyses, includng next generation sequencing (NGS Core Center) for both RNA and DNA using short-read or long-read technologies. MOMA provides also single-cell and spatial sequencing (Singe-Cell Core Center) and analysis of cell-free and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA Core Center). MOMA extends their services to all research groups at Aarhus University, as well as researchers from other universities, business, and industry.
TNU undertakes breeding and detailed phenotyping of modern psychiatric animal models. Techniques such as advanced behavioural characterisation, microdialysis, biomarker analysis, hplc, protein analysis, gene expression, and microscopy/stereology are available. Everyone with an interest is welcome to contact us.
Core facilities are service units with special equipment and special competences. They offer services to researchers at Aarhus University, but also to researchers from other universities, hospitals etc. The core facilities are specialised within their respective areas, so that they can improve quality and efficiency.
We offer molecular interaction analysis services for all scientists at Aarhus University as well as external academic and industrial partners.
BIAS offers biostatistical advice and consultancy to researchers from all five departments at the faculty, including researchers at the regional hospitals in the Central Denmark Region, in connection with clinical studies and data analysis.
We offer analysis of medicinal products, drugs of abuse and metabolites in biological samples. The analyses can be ordered as finished analysis packages, or they can be adapted as required.
The Bioimaging Core Facility provide state-of-the-art equipment for a wide range of light microscopy applications. All system setups are designed to cover most bioimaging applications with a strong focus to meet future requirements and minimize complexity towards the users. The Bioimaging Core Facility focus on microscopy knowledge sharing and in addition they offer access to advanced bioimaging software, expertise in image data analysis, and project based microscopy education.
We provide a centralized resource of expertise in computational biology, data mining and bioinformatics. We offer solutions for analysis, visualization, management and interpretation of large-scale biological data, mainly produced by high-throughput genomics experiments.
We specialise in cardiovascular and metabolic phenotyping in the broadest sense - both for researchers at the department and for external clients. We mainly focus on cardiovascular phenotyping, but also offer advice, guidance and technical assistance on general surgeries, blood sampling and tissue collection.
CellX (The Danish Single Cell Examination Platform) is a national research platform/infrastructure dedicated to single cell and spatial OMICs analysis.
CML has a wide-ranging interdisciplinary collaboration with health and natural scientific fields, in particular. We have expertise in micro imaging, telemetry, physiology sensors, hyperbaric physiology and 3D printing. Everyone with an interest is welcome to contact us.
CONNECT is a consulting service helping researchers make use of health data in personalized medicine research. We offer 10 hours of research support free of charge within our areas of expertise: register-based research, statistical analysis, data management, bioinformatics, and genetic analysis. We can help in any stage of your project, from study design and methodological considerations to analysis and interpretation of data. CONNECT can also help answer some of the legal questions arising when working with health data.
The surgical research laboratories offer operation and laboratory facilities for both research and education. The unit has a wide range of contacts and everyone with an interest in research and education is welcome to contact us.
The laboratory, which is highly specialised within endocrinology and diabetes, carries out advanced metabolic examinations of healthy volunteers and patients; develops new hormone analyses for improved diagnostics and treatment; sets-up cell and tissue models to clarify cellular disease processes; and works with biomarker research for identification of e.g. late-diabetic complications and cardiovascular disease. The laboratory’s services are offered to researchers and clinicians from all of the country's universities and hospitals.
The animal facilities have experience of breeding high-quality laboratory animals, as well as carrying out animal experiments. The animal facilities are open to external research groups and companies that wish to carry out laboratory animal breeding and biomedical research.
The FACS core facility is equipped with three cell sorting instruments: Two FACSAria IIIs and one MoFlo Astrios. In addition, the FACS core facility also has two analysers at its disposal; a LSRFortessa with 4 lasers as well as a NovoCyte with 3 lasers. Furthermore, facility users have access to a combined microscope and flow cytometer – an ImageStream. The FACS core facility provides services to all research groups at Aarhus University. Researchers from other universities and from business and industry are also welcome.
The Research Laboratories are divided into specialized laboratories within microbiology, cell cultivation, materials research, histology and 3D printing. The laboratories employ five highly specialized laboratory technicians/medical laboratory technicians, all with many years of experience.
GenomeDK is a high-performance computing facility, dedicated to genomics and life sciences, which offers access to 6400 cores and 12 PB of storage. This makes it possible for users to run very intensive computations using a lot of data in a secure environment. We provide services to researchers at Aarhus University, other universities, as well and small and medium-sized enterprises.
Aarhus University's climate chambers are among the best in the world for studying how environmental conditions affect human health. In the climate chambers we can conduct experiments that require precise and documented exposure to specific climatic conditions. These may be e.g. a desert climate (dry-warm), Artic climate (dry-cold) or tropical climate (humid-warm).
The research unit for offers equipment and expertise regarding mass spectrometric protein analysis (proteomics; LC-MS/MS) as well as mitochondrial function (SeaHorse; NucleoCounter) and signalling (LC-MS/MS), and we also offer collaboration on projects that include these areas.
MOMA possesses equipment and extensive experience to conduct various molecular analyses, includng next generation sequencing (NGS Core Center) for both RNA and DNA using short-read or long-read technologies. MOMA provides also single-cell and spatial sequencing (Singe-Cell Core Center) and analysis of cell-free and circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA Core Center). MOMA extends their services to all research groups at Aarhus University, as well as researchers from other universities, business, and industry.