Responsible: Cecília Santos; Marília Figueira
CICS-UBI offers four fully equipped cell culture rooms that serve more than 150 users. Primary cell cultures and cell lines, or tissues, from human and non-human origin are isolated, maintained and manipulated in separate cell culture rooms. Facilities offer six biosafety level 2 laminar flow cabinets (Nuaire), six incubators (Nuaire), four microscopes (Olympus), refrigerators, water baths, centrifuges and other support equipment.
A laboratory technician is dedicated to the maintenance and management of these rooms, securing a readily available and constant stock of sterilized materials and solutions. The cell culture facilities are supervised by an integrated member of CICS-UBI that offers training for external and/or unexperienced users.