The seasons are changing - so is the Ebba team! 🎉

Please welcome our newest recruit to the Customer Support staff - Nora Herlin. Her role will be to take care of the office administration and handle the customer questions that come into our inbox.

👩‍🔬 About Nora 👩‍🔬

During high school, I chose to study a programme specialised in business economics and entrepreneurship. Since graduating, I have been both working various jobs and traveling. Now I am looking forward to become a part of the Ebba Biotech team and helping all the Ebba Biotech customers.

The travel bug is in the air!

After a successful trip to Mallorca in September to promote the EbbaBiolight molecules at Eurobiofilms (see image below!) we are excited to update our conference calendar with two more trips in 2022.

Firstly, Hugo will be popping over to Helsinki on the 24th of October to participate in the Nordic Wood Biorefinery Conference, (NWBC2022) - so if you are there, be sure to say hi to him!

Secondly, John and Smilla will be heading over to Riga in November to promote Amytracker at the ADAM9conference. Will you be there? If so, let them know! They are both more than happy to schedule in meetings and "fika" breaks to tell you more about the molecules and the optotracing technology.

See you all - IN PERSON - soon!

Our products are coming even closer to your laboratories with our newest addition to our distributors. Ebba Biotech has recently partnered with Almog diagnostics to bring you our full catalogue of products in Israel!

Do you want to see if there is a distributor in your area that provides the full range of Ebba Biotech products? Check out our website for the full list of distributors.

Our Research Engineers Smilla, Hugo, and John will be travelling all autumn and winter to visit YOU - the scientists - at three conferences!

• Eurobiofilms in Palma, Mallorca: August 30th - September 3rd, 2022
• Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting in Norefjäll, Norway: September 25th - 28th, 2022
• Amyloid Diseases and Amyloid Mechanisms in Riga, Latvia: November 14th - 16th, 2022

Are you attending any of these? Be sure to visit the Ebba Biotech stall and have a chat with our wonderful Research Engineers who will be more than happy to tell you all about the wonderful and pioneering uses of the Ebba Biotech products.

Make sure to follow Ebba Biotech on Linkedin to get updates on when and where you can find them on the conference floor!

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Ebba Biotech is happy to welcome our new Lab Manager - Luc Lenman!

Luc is a microbiologist/molecular biologist who has previously worked with water microbiology and has a degree from Uppsala University. While he has a lot of experience in the lab, he is now looking forward to tackling the operational challenges of the biotech industry.

PSA - Luc has an adorable dog from Tenessee who funnily enough is called Bo. The Research Engineers are hoping to get a "Lab-Dog" soon.

Want to get to know the rest of the team? Click here!

To start us back up after our summer break we are super excited to welcome Dr. Susanne Löffler from the Center for the Advancement of Integrated Medical and Engineering Sciences (AIMES).

In the webinar titled "Opto-electronically active Materials for Infection Detection and Control" Dr. Löffler will present AIMES research using optotracers. Thus, we will get an insight into the properties of optotracers from a material science perspective.

Ordering Ebba Biotech products just keeps getting easier!

For customers in the USA/Canada, we have now partnered with Cedar Lane who will now be able to help streamline the process of ordering all Ebba Biotech products. For the Chinese market, we have added AmyJet to our list of distributors.

Do you want to see if there is a distributor in your area that provides the full range of Ebba Biotech products? Check out our website for the full list of distributors.

Our very own Senior Product Manager will be presenting at the European congress for clinical microbiology and infectious diseases (ECCMID) in Lisbon, Portugal next week. In her capacity of Affiliated Researcher at AIMES, Karolinska Institutet, Dr. Susanne Löffler will present the topic "Biosensors for the diagnosis of biofilm infection" on Tuesday April 26th 9.30am. She will be replacing Professor Agneta Richter Dahlfors on the programme since Agneta is unfortunately unable to travel due to a broken arm. Be sure to check our social media for updates on her presentation!

Our Research Engineers Smilla Huzell and John Bergqvist will represent Ebba Biotech at the Biofilms10 conference in Leipzig, Germany, May 9-12th. Be sure to visit the Ebba Biotech stall and have a chat with our wonderful Research Engineers who will be more than happy to tell you all about the wonderful and pioneering uses of the EbbaBiolight products.

Ebba Biotech is happy to welcome our third Research Engineer - Hugo Hammar!

Coming from a background in glycoscience, proteomics and bioinformatics from KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Hugo will be focusing on the sales and marketing of the Carbotrace product line. So if you have any questions - feel free to email him!

Top Tip! Don't cross Hugo - he is trains actively in not one, but two forms of Karate; Goju Ryu and Shito Ryu.

In this webinar, you will learn how a collaboration between the University of Cambridge and Ebba Biotech AB successfully confirmed the antibiofilm properties of a set of novel inhibitors in clinical strains of uropathogenic E. coli. The current focus is in optimising these hits and completing pre-clinical development to be able to move further into clinical trials.

Do you want to learn more about Dr. Zarkan and his work? Follow this link.

We are currently looking for a Lab Manager to keep our laboratory in order and to expand our capacity for customer specific experiments. We are also looking for a Research Engineer to focus on our Carbotrace range.

Ebba Biotech is happy to welcome our first PhD student from the internship project launched by Karolinska Institutet Career Service. Davide is a neurobiologist from Karolinska Institutet who will be working with us throughout February adding even more Amytracker competence to the Team.

A fun fact about Davide is that despite his roots in warm Italy - he actually prefers the cold rugged Scandinavian weather!

Big news for our customers in Singapore, Indonesia, India and Australia - we have now secured distributors for you! We are excited to add Afimus Biosource (Singapore), Afirmus Biotek (Indonesia), Rhetoric Life Sciences (India) and Australian Biosearch (Australia) to our expanding list of distributors

Our guest speaker for this webinar is Professor Ulrica Edlund from the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. Her presentation about a “Selective method for spectral identification and recovery of polysaccharides from biorefining" will explain how she uses optotracers like Carbotrace in her research to discover & characterise renewable resources for biorefinement. As a leading researcher in her field, Prof. Edlund contributes to reach UN sustainability goals by paving the way for a greener future moving towards renewable materials and circular economy

(Image: Professor Edlund (left) focuses her research on paving the way for a circular economy by discovering and characterising sustainable materials from renewable resources. Her latest work describes a process to recover cellulose of high purity from green macroalgae. Characterisation of the produced cellulose nanofibrils (left) was aided by the novel optotracing technology (image from Wahlström et al., CC BY 4.0).).

Learn more about Professor Edlund’s research here.

In our facility at Karolinska Science Park in Solna, we perform standard test procedures to guarantee that our optotracers are produced with consistent quality. While we are proud that our optotracers work with standard instruments like fluorescence plate readers and epifluorescence microscopes, we want to see what is possible using the newest and best equipment on the market.

Through one of our affiliated researchers, Associate Professor Sofie Nyström, from Linköping University we are now able to access the ProLinC core facility at Linköping University. We will use frozen tissue sections with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease pathology and label them with Amytracker according to our protocol for “Staining of protein aggregates in tissue sections”.

The fixed and labeled samples are quite stable and can be transported at room temperature, so we take the short trip to Linköping to use their SpectraView microscope, which generates a fluorescence spectrum for each pixel in the acquired image.

We are happy to announce that we have two new distributors for our customers in China. These partnerships are with Neobioscience Technology, Co. Ltd., Shenzhen and Annoron Biotechnology Co. Ltd., Beijing.

More information on all our distributors can be found here.

Do you want to learn more about the applications of the Amytracker molecules in research?

Our guest for this webinar is distinguished Professor Resia Pretorius from Stellenbosch University in South Africa. Her presentation “Consequences of coagulation in health and disease: The use of fluorescent markers”, will detail Prof. Pretorius’ research using the Amytracker molecules. The webinar will pull from Prof. Pretorius’ earlier research with fibrin amyloid formation and her current pioneering work with microclots in Long Covid patients. More information about Prof. Pretorius can be found here.

Sam Michelsen joined Ebba Biotech mid-September as Customer & Operations Support and will be the first point of contact for customer orders. Sam is half way through a Bachelors Program in cognitive science at Umeå University.

We are proud to present Biozol GmbH as our chosen partner mainly for distribution in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. We have also established a distribution partnership with Shigematsu & Co., Ltd. in Japan. Contact information to our distributors can be found here.

Do you want to learn more about labelling Staphylococci with optotracer molecules?

On Sept. 30th 2021 we will hold our first webinar. The webinar is part of a webinar series that we plan to hold every month with focus on EbbaBiolight, Amytracker or Carbotrace.

Our first speaker is Karen Butina, PhD who has performed her thesis work at the Swedish Medical Nanoscience Center at Karolinska Institute under supervision of Prof. Richter-Dahlfors.

Dr. Butina will present her research about labelling Staphylococci using optotracer molecules. You can read more about Dr. Butinas work here.

We have recently updated our website with more information on Optotracer science in general and customer testimonials on EbbaBiolight, Amytracker and Carbotrace.

We encourage and endorse all our customers to apply for the National Biofilms Innovation Centre Photography completion and let us know if you created your image with EbbaBiolight - surprise then awaits irregardless if you win or not.

Saga Grånäs Jakobsson is joining us as Summer Intern / Research Assistant during June and July 2021. Saga is a Master of Science student in Macromolecular Materials at KTH Royal Institute of technology.

Smilla Huzell, who has been a Summer Intern last year, re-joins us as Research Engineer from July 1st after completing her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry at University of Glasgow.

One of our co-founders, Dr. Ferdinand X. Choong (Assistant Professor at AIMES, Karolinska Institutet) is speaking at the event "Lab & Diagnostics" 14:45 (GMT+1) June 1st 2021.

With optotracing – using fluorescent tracer molecules – Ebba Biotech provides an innovative method for expanding areas of research. We proudly serve clinical, academic and industrial research laboratories worldwide. Use our optotracer products as tool to search and detect.

Ebba Biotech was founded in 2015 as a biotech start-up within Medeon (Science Park for Life Science in Malmö, Sweden) by professor Agneta Richter-Dahlfors to enable more widespread and commercial use of fluorescent tracer molecules, a result of many years of cutting-edge nanoscience and organic chemistry research.

The optotracing technology – using fluorescent tracer molecules that bind to and mark substances in samples – has been developed by a scientific expert team of researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Linköping University in Sweden.