Next Week, BRIN's Genomic Laboratory In Cibinong, West Java, Is Targeted To Operate

Genomics Laboratory. (Source: BRIN official website)

JAKARTA - The Genomic Laboratory of the National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) which was built in Cibinong, West Java, is targeted to operate next week in January 2022.

"The construction of the building has been completed, the furniture (furniture) has been entered and is targeted to be completed this week so that next week it should be able to function," said the Scientific Collection Infrastructure Coordinator from the Scientific Collection Infrastructure Directorate, Deputy for Research and Innovation Infrastructure BRIN Ishak Siregar in a written statement on Wednesday. Jakarta, reported by Antara, Tuesday, January 11.

Currently in the second week of January 2022, the Genomic Laboratory is in the process of cleaning up. The process of installing furniture for the completeness and moving of laboratory equipment, including equipment from the Eijkman Research Center for Molecular Biology (PRBM), which has been entered on the 4th floor.

Ishak said that the Genomics Laboratory is one of the supporting infrastructure facilities for integrated research from several laboratories in research centers within the Biological Sciences Research Organization, namely the Biomaterials Research Center, Biotechnology Research Center, Biology Research Center, and Eijkman PRBM.

Adequate research facilities and infrastructure and support the work of both research human resources (HR) and research management are needed to advance Indonesian research and innovation.

Various research infrastructures were built with the financing of State Sharia Securities (SBSN) in several locations in BRIN's working areas.

For the Cibinong area, one of the research infrastructure facilities that has been completed since September 2021 is the National Integrated Center for Genomic, Tropical Biodiversity and Environment Building or the Genomic Laboratory.

The integrated Genomics Laboratory facility provides the public with state-of-the-art research equipment for biotechnology and molecular engineering.

The facility is projected as a national research facility to produce useful products based on molecular biology engineering (hereditary materials, sequences, DNA and RNA, hosts, synthetic genes, vaccines, pharmaceutical proteins) based on local materials.

In addition, the standardized modern facility can be used as a reference laboratory in the fields of biotechnology and bioengineering, and as a center for knowledge exchange facilities at regional and international levels.

The Genomic Laboratory management system is open to anyone (open space) and centralized. "That means anyone can use it, whether researchers inside BRIN or outside, including students."

"So it's different from the previous scheme that the laboratory in the form of laboratory equipment can only be used for internal researchers and as if it only belonged to certain researchers or work units," said Ishak. In general, most of the rooms in the Genomics Laboratory with a building area of 16,000 square meters it consists of rooms for research laboratories, and is equipped with other supporting rooms including co-working spaces, front offices, meeting rooms, workshops and training, administration, IT rooms, prayer rooms and warehouses.

Co-working space is provided for researchers in the building during the research process, but researchers do not stay or have their own workspace.

Based on the type, the laboratory rooms consist of the Biodiversity Utilization and Bioprospection Laboratory (Wing A) and the Biodiversity and Tropical Environment Laboratory (Wing B).

The laboratories in Wing A consist of the Bioprocess Engineering and Fermentation Technology Lab on the 1st floor, the Bioprospection and Bioassay Lab on the 2nd floor, the Genetics, Protein and Metabolic Engineering Lab on the 4th floor.

Meanwhile, Wing B consists of the Preparation Lab and Waste Treatment Lab on the 1st floor, the Tropical Biodiversity Lab and the Climate Change Mitigation Lab on the 2nd floor, the Advanced Environmental Analysis Lab and the Basic Environmental Analysis Lab on the 3rd floor, and the Environmental Health Lab and Toxicology Lab on the 4th floor. .