Biomedicum Common Virus Laboratory BSL-2 - our offer
The Biomedicum Common Virus facility BSL-2 aims to provide a suitable, safe and up-to-date virus work laboratory. It is open for researchers at KI to perform studies related with virus production, infection/transduction and functional analysis.
The lab is equipped with class 2 biosafety cabinets, fluorescence microscopes and incubators for both mammalian and insect cell cultures. Except for a type A biosafety cabinet (Airstream), there is also a type B cabinet (Mars Silence), suitable for microbiological work which requires sterility of product but may involve the use of small volumes of solvents, acids or chemicals that may normally require fume hood extraction.
To facilitate virus production and concentration, two high performance refrigerated bench centrifuges were recently allocated to this room.
Avanti J-15R centrifuge, installed with swinging-bucket rotor, allows spinning biological samples from 10 ml tubes to 500 ml bottles as well as multi-well plates while Legend micro 17R gives the flexibility for centrifuging small volume samples.
