Life science

The University of Oslo and the faculty of natural sciences has two research vessels in the Oslo Fjord, F/F Trygve Braarud (70') og F/F Bjørn Føyn (40').

The Norwegian Sequencing Centre is a national technology core facility offering sequencing services on the HiSeq X, HiSeq 3000/4000, HiSeq 2500, NextSeq 500 & MiSeq instruments from Illumina, and also the Sequel from Pacific Biosciences.

The Norwegian Molecular Imaging Consortium (NorMIC) core facility at the Institute of Biosciences (IBV) focuses on fluorescence imaging of live and fixed samples. The core facility can offer a selection of imaging techniques to strengthen and support the community of Life Science in Oslo and Norway. 

The Norwegian Culture Collection of Algae, NORCCA, maintained and owned by the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and the University of Oslo (UiO), includes algal strains from the two institutes and the former Danish algal culture collection SCCAP.

The CLIPT (CLimate Interpretation of Plant Tissue) lab measures carbon, nitrogen, oxygen and hydrogen stable isotopes on geological and biological substrates for the UiO community.

Finse Alpine Research Center, located in the northwestern part of the Hardangervidda mountain plateau. Seminars and meetings, as well as university field courses, are regularly held in the conference unit.

The EM-lab at the Department of Biosciences is part of the core facility Life Science Electron Microscopy Consortium (LSEMC). The other LSEMC node, the Electron Microscopy Laboratory, is located at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences.

The University of Oslo has a biological station in Drøbak that includes a research station (Biologen), established in 1894, and a lodging and conference centre (Tollboden), established in 1860.

An ancient DNA laboratory is situated on the Blindern Campus at the Department of Biosciences (IBV), University of Oslo.

The InVivo facility is an approved establishment, and provides in vivo infrastructure for research.