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Research Infrastructure

Our Blueprint

BI is changing the research paradigm by collocating faculty from different disciplines under one roof. Our ‘lab without walls’ approach allows daily, face-to- face interactions between people who develop technologies – the toolbox people – with people who have significant biomedical research problems to solve. BI leverages its unique physical infrastructure to catalyze collaborations and support breakthrough biomedical research. In addition to the traditional faculty-dedicated laboratories, BI’s dedicates 40% of its total footprint (30,000+ SF) to shared facilities that encourage cross-cutting interdisciplinary collaborations amongst researchers within BI.

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Integration Space

BI’s footprint includes 1,500 square feet of Integration Space. This space is highly-flexible and designed to host new collaborative engagement with other non-BI academic and industrial researchers to accelerate innovation and translation. Collaborators hosted in the Integration Space also have access to other BI shared facilities.

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BI Research Centers

BI invests in shared equipment to support its research mission. Several main research centers offer access and training to specialized instruments. These centers are available for use by BI researchers as well as to the broader UM and align with BI’s core research clusters.

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Single Cell Lab

State-of-the-art microfluidics, imaging, and sequencing technologies for single-cell studies

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Visualization Lab (VisLab)

Visualization Lab (VisLab)

Visualization capabilities to help researchers characterize, model, and understand complex materials.

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Dr. Sarah Spanninga in the Nanotechnicum using the Discovery 2500 Differential Scanning Calorimeter (DSC)

Nanotechnicum

Characterization and analysis of nanomaterials

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Biotechnicum

3D bioprinters and instrumentation to facilitate biomaterial manipulation and characterization

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Optical Imaging and Analysis Lab

Imaging and characterization a wide range of materials from colloids to tissues

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Research Infrastructure Equipment

WES AND MILO WESTERN BLOT SYSTEMS (PROTEIN SIMPLE)
BIOTEK SYNERGY NEO MICROPLATE READER (FISHER SCIENTIFIC/BIOTEK)
XFE96 EXTRACELLULAR FLUX ANALYZER (SEAHORSE BIOSCIENCE, INC./AGILENT)
MICROSQUISHER (CELL SCALE BIOMATERIALS TESTING)
SCANNING CONFOCAL SYSTEM (NIKON INSTRUMENTS)
FLUORCHEM M IMAGING SYSTEM(PROTEIN SIMPLE)

The Biointerfaces Institute brings extensive experience to the collaborations that lead to scientific breakthroughs, successful translation, and advanced learning.

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