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CellNetworks Core Facilities Symposium

We warmly invite you to join the CellNetworks Core Facilities Symposium on Tuesday, March 28th 2023! Location: BioQuant, Im Neuenheimer Feld 267 Seminar room 041 Begin: 1 p.m. You can simply swing by. For planning purposes, it’d be great to pre-register.
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The Field of Focus 1 Research Council supports the development of technological facilities (Core Facilities) through financing and advisory service.

The Cluster of Excellence CellNetworks was instrumental in fostering the infrastructure of the Heidelberg Life Science Campus and now serves as an umbrella organisation for the Core Facilities, the CellNetworks Core Technology Platform (CCTP).

Major aims are to provide easy access for members of all partners, transparent terms of use and the development of a balanced User Fee System. CCTP-associated Core Facilities must fulfil certain requirements. 

Junior scientists in particular should have easy access to the latest technology without any bureaucratic obstacles. The Core Facilities offer support to their users on three different levels:

  • Service
  • Support by experienced staff
  • Allocation of equipment

CCTP-ASSOCIATED CORE FACILITIES

Core Facility

Advanced Biological Screening Facility (ABSF)

The screening facility offers assay development, automated sample preparation and high-throughput solid phase transfection with siRNAs high-throughput microscopy, and automated data validation.

Core Facility

Core Facility for Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics (CFMP)

The CFMP offers qualitative and quantitative proteomics, allowing protein and protein-interactome identification and characterization, including detection and localization of posttranslational modifications.

Core Facility

Deep Sequencing Core Facility

The CellNetworks Deep Sequencing Core Facility provides access to Next Generation Sequencing technology. It extends the capacities offered by EMBL, DKFZ and Medical Faculties.

Core Facility

Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMCF)

The EMCF provides technical and scientific support for transmission and scanning electron microscopy. The scientific staff will especially help to optimize biological sample preparation, the key to successful electron microscopy.

Core Facility

Flow Cytometry & FACS Core Facility (FFCF)

The FFCF´s state-of-the-art instruments allow sorting of prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. The team offers individual tutorials to flow cytometry and the use of the analytical instruments, and support concerning flow cytometry as a method.

Core Facility

Interdisciplinary Neurobehavioral Core (INBC)

The INBC is an in vivo core platform at Heidelberg University that offers detailed behavioral analyses and surgical procedures in the context of mouse and rat models of neurological, cognitive and psychiatric disorders.

Core Facility

Metabolomics Core Technology Platform (MCTP)

The MCTP offers a broad range of qualitative and quantitative metabolite analyses. It determines concentrations of small molecules in biological samples, offering tailor-made solutions and standardized Metabolomics assays.

Core Facility

nCounter Core Facility

The nCounter Core Facility provides access to one of the current state-of-the-art expression profiling technologies: an instrument designed for multiplexed measurement of gene expression using fluorescently labeled reporter probes.

Core Facility

Nikon Imaging Center (NIC)

Located in Bioquant, the major focus of the Nikon Imaging Center is to provide instrumentation for advanced light microscopic imaging with regularly up-dated equipment to researchers on campus.

Core Facility

Protein Crystallization Platform

The platform provides crystallization services for biological macromolecules such as proteins or complexes thereof with small molecule ligands, RNA or DNA. The equipment allows for crystallization experiments at the nanoliter scale with daily monitoring.

ADDITIONAL OPEN CORE FACILITIES, TECHNOLOGY NETWORKS & LARGE EQUIPMENT

Core Facility

Biomechanics Core Facility

The Biomechanics Core Facility provides standardized and reproducible mechanical characterization of soft (bio) materials, as well as specific sample preparation methods required for the characterization.

PARTNER INSTITUTIONS

Core Facility Platform Mannheim Campus

The Core Facility Platform Mannheim, CFPM, consists of seven Core Facilities covering diverse areas and creating a Core Facility Pipeline, which operates research requests from basic analysis to imaging, microscopy, cell sorting and up to data analysis.

Technology Network

HDcryoNet

The Heidelberg University cryo-electron-mikroscopy-network (HDcryoNet) hosts cryo-EM infrastructure located at the BioQuant and at the Biochemistry Center.

Core Facility

Heidelberg Lipidomics

Heidelberg Lipidomics offers qualitative and quantitative lipidomics analyses.

Core Facility

Infectious Diseases Imaging Platform (IDIP)

The Infectious Diseases Imaging Platform (IDIP) provides, develops and applies high-end microscopy infrastructure under conditions of enhanced biosafety containment 2 and 3 (BSL-2 and 3) to enable infectious diseases research.

Core Facility

IZN FACS Facility

The facility at the IZN-Neurobiology Department provides access to flow cytometry-based applications and a unique service on the campus for the sorting of rare neural cell populations and subcellular components.

Technology Network

MINFLUX Nanoscope

The newly installed MINFLUX nanoscope offers super-resolution microscopy with a resolution up to 2 nm in 3D.

Core Facility

Scientific Facility for Microfabrication and Microfluidics

Microfluidics is an emerging field and is finding use in various disciplines. At the Scientific Facility for Microfabrication and Microfluidics we aim to provide this valuable tool to every interested research group in and around the Neuenheimer Feld.

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