Within UPSC, we have a number of climate chambers available for controlled environment studies. These include 7 “walk-in” climate chambers on floor 2 and 8 “walk-in” climate chambers on floor 3, within the new high security growth facility. There are…

Populus Genome Programme & Spruce Genome ProjectThe Populus Genome Program is a part of SCTFG (Swedish Center for Tree Functional Genomics) and is the most comprehensive tree genome program in the world. The collaborating partners are Umeå Plant Science Center…

The UPSC Bioinformatics facility centralises bioinformatics competences, offering a range of bioinformatics services as well as conducting its own bioinformatics related research and participating in wider collaborative projects. The facility also delivers local bioinformatics training i and contributes to international…

Swedish Metabolomics Centre is a collaboration between Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå University and Chalmers University of Technology. Since 2016, Swedish Metabolomics Centre is a part of SciLifeLabhttp://www.swedishmetabolomicscentre.se/

"The SE lab"The laboratory for somatic embryogenesis and genetic transformation ("the SE lab") was established as a technical platform at UPSC in 2009. The primary function of the platform is to test candidate genes in Norway spruce (Picea abies) that…

Because of the long generation time and obligatory out- crossing of most trees, reverse genetic approaches are the only realistic alternative for the analysis of gene functions in trees. UPSC scientists were among the first in the world to be…

IntroductionGenetics laboratory at UPSC is a facility meant to be a resource for all those working in the UPSC Community. We can perform various jobs in plant molecular biology such as DNA and RNA preparations, PCR, cloning, qPCR. We can…

Scientific coordinator: Gunnar Wingsle, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Contact: Thomas Kieselbach, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The proteomic platform is a part of the Umeå Protein Analysis (UPA) Facility that was initiated in 2003 and provides infrastructure for research in protein science and proteomics. The facility is…

The microscopy facilities at UPSC include a broad range of equipment for sample preparation, subsequent analysis and image acquisition.Available equipment:1. Microscopes Three Zeiss Axioplan (fluorescence) microscopes with digital camera systems Stereomicroscopes, one with fluorescence 2. Confocal laser scanning microscopes (CSLM)…

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 research of cell walls of landplants, non-landplants and biopolymer materials among KBC groups.Equip­ment and competence…

Databases at UPSC PopulusDB - Discontinued - use popgenie version 1 PopTF DB - Cloning of full length poplar transcription factor cDNAs and expression in Populus PopGenIE - PopGenIE facilitates the exploration of genes and gene function in Populus Congenie - facilitates the exploration of…