Core facilities
Core facilities at the Institute of Technology are providing access to sophisticated technologies. Their role is to develop and maintain the knowhow, take care and upgrade the machinery and provide services for scientists and also for wider research community.
In Institute of Technology, there are five core facilities:
Core Facility for Cell Technology
The mission of Core Facility for Cell Technology is to provide high-level technological support for research community, both in academia and industry.
We have the instruments and technical know-how to provide the following services:
There is a fee for our services, please contact the laboratory manager.
First time users must contact Eve Toomsoo ([email protected]) first, training is mandatory before using the machines.
Already know what to do? Please book a time. Booking is currently managed through Microsoft Outlook calendar, accessible to all employees of University of Tartu and PhD students. People outside of university should contact Eve Toomsoo ([email protected]) to secure their access.
The Proteomics Core Facility of University of Tartu (UT PCF) offers a mass spectrometry (MS) based proteomics analysis services. MS proteomics analysis enables to characterize, both qualitatively and quantitatively, the protein and peptide composition of various biological samples (tissues, cells, bodily fluids etc.). We offer our services to the research groups within the university, to other scientific institutions both inside and outside Estonia, and to the biotechnology industry.
Our services include:
• Protein identification and sequencing.
• Label-free or label-based (e.g. SILAC) quantification of proteins.
• Analysis of post-translational modifications of proteins.
For more detailed inquiries regarding our services, please contact the head of the facility Ivar Ilves ([email protected]). Please contact us also for discussing the details of your experiment setup before submitting any samples - this would help us to tailor the analysis according to your needs.
There is a fee for our services, please contact the laboratory manager.
The sample submission and transport instructions to the laboratory
Monitor our current sample analysis queue.
Scientific Equipment Core Facility builds unique apparatus, that is not found in stores. Our clients are scientists, who need scientific equipment for scientific work, but also companies with the need for novel equipment engineering and constructing.
There is a fee for our services, please contact the laboratory manager.
Contact:
E-post:[email protected]
The mission of Core Facility for Biosafety is to improve national biosafety, biosecurity and provide high-level technological support for research community, both in academia and industry. We have equipment and technical competence to provide the following services:
1. Using laboratory equipment
2. Research and/or servicework (hazard class 3)
3. Making and growing tissueculture cell lines from mammal tissues
4. Infection in tissueculture model, where eucaryotic tissueculture cells are transfected with viral RNA or cDNA or are infected with natural and/or recombinant viruses
5. Infection in animal model where mice or rats are infected with natural or recombinant viruses
6. Infection in tissue culture model where eucaryotic tissue culture cells are infected with pathogenic microbes (hazard class 2)
7. Infection in animal model where mice and rats are infected with pathogenic microbes with purpose to investigate effect of treatment in infection model and/or to investigate pathogenetic process caused by virus/microbe
8. Work in general laboratory with non-infectious material
9. Other services
Please register before using our laboratory equipment or services
There is a fee for our services, please contact the laboratory manager.
Here is a list of our laboratory equipment.
Before planning experiment, please contact Liane Viru ([email protected], phone nr +372 53436585) in order to create test plan for effective analysis.
Core Facility for Biosafety is located in 1st floor of Institute of Biomedicine and Transaltional medicine, Ravila 14B.
The core facility of simulation technologies operates at the materials in extreme environmental conditions working group, and its main goal is to find a commercial application for computer simulation methods used and developed at the institute of technology. Examples of applied methodology are finite element analysis, fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics, density functional theory (DFT). We also use combinations of methods in a multiscale framework. The most important software used are Comsol Multiphysics, OpenFOAM, LAMMPS, Gaussian, VASP, FEMOCS.
The main focus of the core laboratory of simulation technologies is the provision of finite element method and fluid dynamics simulations to Estonian companies, as well as to the international market. In the international competitive situation, molecular dynamics and DFT are added. The core laboratory focuses primarily on solving nonlinear and multiphysics problems in situations that require adaptation of methodologies and are generally not cost-effectively available to companies when implementing standard software (Ansys, Solidworks Simulation, etc.). In this way, we acquire a market niche and ensure the effective use of highly qualified laboratory.
There is a fee for our services, please contact the laboratory manager.
Picture 1 Examples of offered simulation solutions. From the top, acoustic simulation using the finite element method, multiscale simulation in the atomistic scale and molecular dynamics.
The experience so far in providing services to Estonian companies has demonstrated considerable interest on the part of companies in providing the corresponding services. In the expansion of the service offering, the biggest bottleneck has been the lack of information necessary for companies - they have not had the opportunity to find the provision of the corresponding service in TÜTI. The establishment of a core laboratory allows eliminating this bottleneck and making our competence and the solutions offered available to companies.
Current project partners: ABB, AS Kodumaja, Estonian Navy, Estonian Defense Forces, Saint-Gobain Glass Estonia SE, Kuma Wood OÜ, Milrem Robotics, Estelaxe, Tark Laut, Venteco Systems OÜ, Koivakonnu OÜ, Robolab OÜ, CERN, Scannersock OÜ, Ars Inc .
Check out the price list of services here!
Read more about CFD simulation software OpenFOAM here!
