Advice and trainning

Technical advice for sample preparation, as well as in the subsequent analysis.

This service provides scientific advice on the management of agricultural resources, including different aspects related to agricultural sciences. It offers both scientific and technical assistance through specialized R&D agents to different public agencies, as well as to other professionals and companies in the sector.
The service offers advice and assistance in aspects related to the production of agricultural products.
This service is directed to any type of organization, public or private institutions that may need counseling in the field of agricultural sciences.
The service includes data analysis, diagnosis, conclusions and recommendations. It can also include the presentation of results to other sectors involved.

Technical advice and training in processing of oceanographic data acquired with underwater acoustics using specialized software available in the UTM
If you want to obtain additional information on existing facilities and on how to carry out training or processing stays, please visit: http://www.utm.csic.es/lab/

Technical support on concrete technology

Most of the service members are staff scientists, specialized in different fields of Molecular Physics, Molecular Spectroscopy and related experimental techniques and theoretical methods. We can provide scientific and/or technical consulting and advising in many fileds:
- Infrared spectroscopy: FTIR and laser based. Gas and solid phase.
- Raman spectroscopy: dispersive and coherent techniques.
- Visible-UV emission spectroscopy
- Mass spectrometry.
- Cryogenics.
- High and Ultra-high vacuum (production, measurement and control)
- Cold plasmas
- Ab-initio calculations
- Computational mineralogy
The service members can also provide training in short courses or specialized talks.

Consulting and training regarding all the technologies supported by the facility including training to use the equipment as well as assistance in grant writing involving these technologies.

The service has its own Ethics Committee for Animal Experimentation (CEEA-ICM-CSIC) responsible for the animal welfare. The committee ensures that the protocol of the 3 Rs is met. In addition, it is responsible for issuing the necessary reports to the competent body to determine the suitability of experimentation when working with vertebrates and / or cephalopods (work under animal act).

The facility offers support in the equipment use:
- basic training for novice user
- Sample or equipment Troubleshooting
- Protocols design and applications
- User manuals, rapid guides and the guidelines for each equipment.
The use of this equipments have a price for hour described below.
For futher information, please contact with the facility, (see Contacto in the mean menu)

Advice on issues of Quality Centres and Laboratories and Equipments Calibrations and Verifications. The price depends on the number of hours that consists the advice and is calculated based on an example for the establishment of costings based on 4-hour technical advice.

The Service offers personalized support in the experimental design of both in vitro and in vivo experiments, for both internal and external users. Support is also provided for advanced imaging experiments such as calcium imaging, FRAP, FLIP, FRET, FLIM,
In addition, the Service implements training in the form of workshops tailored towards understanding basic optical adjustments and for the use of software for acquisition available in workstations.

Training

Members of this service team training experience includes the participation in Master and PhD courses in University programs (Universitat Barcelona, Universitat Politècnica Catalunya, Universitat Autònoma, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, Universidad Internacional Menéndez Pelayo), the organization of long life learning (L3) experiences in private platforms (Barcelona Oceans), individual lectures in international courses in remote sensing and Earth Sciences, as well as the organization and teaching of specific curses for international aerospace companies. We can organize in-home training events, courses and workshop both for academic and non-academic institutions.
More specifically:
- Technical advice on compute equipment purchasing for scientific projects and associated services agreements
- Technical advice in Geographic Information Systems and cartography. Guidance and support in GIS software (ArcGIS, QGIS). GIS projects development and support to geoprocessing and spatial data analysis (optimal paths, network analysis, intervisibility, areas of influence, interpolations, regression, simulation and modeling, autocorrelation...). Tech advice in coordinate reference systems, change of coordinates and projections (georeferenced data). Management, development and implementation of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) following INSPIRE's rules
- Tech advice about the feasibility of numerical simulations proposed by researchers and external users. The compatibility of the proposed codes with compilers and scientific libraries will be analyzed. In case the computing requirements exceed the resources directly administered by the Service, it will assist the user during the process of requesting access to other computing infrastructures such as the Red Española de Supercomputación (RES)
- Counselling and cloud services
- High-performance (HPC) computing services and consulting (High-performance (HPC)
- Calculation and virtualization infrastructure services and consulting

Scientific advice and support services are offered to farmers, publics and private organizations on the cultivation, germplasm selection and evaluation in Crucifers (Brassicaceae) for horticultural and oleaginous use.

Description:
Researchers and research assistants at the IBB provide advice and training to students and researchers on scientific projects through the implementation of a range of techniques on molecular biology, molecular cytogenetics and population genetics. In each case, we can plan and adapt our laboratory facilities to the user¿s needs. For doing so, and based on individual¿s interests and goals, we offer collaboration on experimental design and planification as well as in practical and analytical aspects, allowing independent use of the facilities (through supervision) based on previous training on the use of our facilities.
This service is offered to research teams (students and researchers), but also to private enterprises interested in applying molecular and cytogenetic tools.
Equipment available:
Fully equipped molecular biology and molecular cytogenetics laboratories:
-Thermal cyclers (GS-1, FLEXCYCLER, W/96W FS RM, T100 THERMAL CYCLER (BIO-RAD))
-Microscopes and stereomicroscopes (OLYMPUS BX-51, OLYMPUS SZX-ZB9)
-Flow Cytometer (Cyflow Space)
-Qubit (Invitrogen Q33216)
-NanoDrop ND1000
-Qsonica - Q800R3 Sonicator
-Transilluminator (SYNGENE)
Catalogue of technical applications:
Technical and scientific advice on research projects (molecular biology and molecular cytogenetics). See the general catalogue of services offered by the institute on different fields (e.g. flow cytometry, florescent in situ hybridization, DNA work including extraction, purification and amplification, DNA fragmentation)
Service offered:
The user can benefit from this service through different levels of collaboration, which include
-Basic analysis of samples and delivery of results
-Technical and scientific advice for research
-Technical assistance and troubleshooting