National Microscopy Infrastructure, NMI

NMI is a distributed infrastructure for microscopy in life sciences with nodes at KTH, and Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Umeå Universities.

NMI provides open access to state-of-the-art equipment and expertise in microscopy, and coordinates the participation in international microscopy infrastructures (EuroBioImaging).Technologies available at NMI include: correlative and multimodal light and electron microscopy, intravital microscopy, super-resolution microscopy and spatial proteomics.

The techniques are used in fundamental and translational research for studies down to the molecular level in both living and fixed cells and whole organisms.

The advanced imaging techniques not only require significant investments in equipment from the host universities but also skilled scientific staff with expertise to operate the advanced microscopes and optimize the analysis.A project portal support execution of projects (www.nmisweden.se). Applications for projects are done via the portal where support also is given to select the most appropriate technique.

Project prioritization is primarily based on technical feasibility.

Support is given along the entire value chain of projects: pre-project consultation, project planning, training, sample preparation, microscopy and data analysis.Since start in 2016, NMI has supported more than 1000 researchers in over 1400 research projects. NMI is thus well-established as an infrastructure of relevance for current and future Swedish research.