EbbaBiolight Webinar - 17th August
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.
Do you want to learn more about Dr. Löffler and her work at AIMES? Follow this link.More distributors - China and North America
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.
Conferences - ECCMID and Biofilms10
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.
Meet Hugo Hammar - our new Research Engineer!
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.
EbbaBiolight Webinar - 5th May
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.
Ebba Biotech is hiring!
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.
The Solna team is growing!
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!
More distributors - Singapore, Indonesia, India & Australia!
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
Carbotrace Webinar - 24th February
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.
Solna team adventures - Imaging @ProLinC, LiU
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.
New distributor agreements - China!
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.
Amytracker Webinar on November 25th
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.
New employee!
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.
New distributor agreements!
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.
EbbaBiolight Webinar on Sept. 30th
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.
Improvements on the website!
We have recently updated our website with more information on Optotracer science in general and customer testimonials on EbbaBiolight, Amytracker and Carbotrace.
NBIC image competition
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.
Our team is growing further
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.
Learn more about Optotracing - register for free webinar
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.
About Ebba Biotech and the Optotracer technology
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.
Our Stockholm branch is moving
We will be relocating our Stockholm (Solna) branch on January 1st. The move will be short - less than 500 m - to a new location within Karolinska Institutet Science Park. Our street address changes from Fogdevreten 2 to Nobels väg 16. Postcode and phone numbers remain the same. Due to our move some delays in delivery can occur from Friday December 18th until Friday January 8th. Please allow up to 10 working days from placing an order to delivery (our normal turn-around time is 2-5 working days)
Our team is growing!
On September 1st, 2020 John Bergqvist joined us as Research Engineer. He is responsible for keeping in touch with our Customers. John holds an Integrated Masters of Science in Microbiology with specialisation in Bacteriology from University of Glasgow and has gained research experience at Institut Pasteur working with Shigella bacteria.
Also, recently, Ylva Nordström joined us as Operations Engineer. She is responsible for running daily operations at Ebba Biotech. Ylva holds a Master of Science in Vehicle Engineering with specialisation in Sustainable Energy Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm.
Learn more about Optotracing
During this autumn we have updated our website to include more practical information on how to use our Optotracers in general and specifically Carbotrace, EbbaBiolight and Amytracker with relevant publications, protocols and videos.
Carbotrace - expansion of our product range
Carbotrace is our Optotracer (fluorescent tracer molecule) designed to target carbohydrate structures. We are proud to present our expansion of the Carbotrace series to include five wavelength variants and a Mix&Try kit.
Ebba Biotech launches new optotracer series - EbbaBiolight
“My passion has always been to make our nanoscience and organic chemistry research available to a wider audience. Finally, after spending years on research and development, we are ready and able to launch the full wavelength range of our fluorescent tracer (optotracer) molecule for probing and detecting bacterial biofilm under its new name EbbaBiolight.” says founder and chairman of Ebba Biotech AB, Professor Agneta Richter-Dahlfors.
The EbbaBiolight product series consists of five fluorescent tracer (optotracer) molecules: EbbaBiolight 480, EbbaBiolight 520, EbbaBiolight 540, EbbaBiolight 630 and EbbaBiolight 680. All variants are available to order in two volumes: 50 µl and 100 µl. We also offer the EbbaBiolight Mix&Try kit which contains the complete product series (five optotracer molecules) in volume of 10 µl each.
"With exceptionally high signal-to-noise ratio and spectral properties that are clearly distinguishable from biological autofluorescence, we especially recommend EbbaBiolight 680 for tracking of biofilm in live cultures.” says professor Agneta Richter-Dahlfors.
EbbaBiolight 680 has formerly been known under the commercial name ECtracer 680.