Infrastructure

X-Ray Crystallography

The primary goal of structural biology is a mechanistic understanding of biological macromolecules and of biological processes so that they can be described in the language of physics and chemistry. This requires an exact knowledge of the three-dimensional structures, of the respective molecules and of their complexes such that the spatial position of each atom can be precisely described.

Electron Microscopy

The visualization of a gene product, in particular the localization within a biological specimen is one of the basic topics in cell biology. Applying fluorescence labeling methods molecules can be detected by light microscopy, even in living cells. Nevertheless, the associated morphological structure can be identified in most cases only by electron microscopy.

BioOptics Facility

The BioOptics Facility offers a variety of methods and equipment to retrieve all the visible information available from your specimen, let it be organism, organoid, tissue or cell, and to uncover biological structures or processes. Our aim is to help scientists to analyse and sort all kinds of samples with optical methods.

Genome Center

Modern DNA sequencing technology has fundamentally changed the way how key questions in biology are being approached. The Genome Center Facility operates PacBio long-read and Illumina short-read sequencers and provides training and tools to enable existing and to develop novel sequencing-based applications.

Mass Spectrometry

The mass spectrometry facility provides equipment, software packages and methods for targeted/untargeted metabolomics, top-down proteomics and mass spectrometry imaging using Bruker mass spectrometers (Impact-II and ScimaX). The facility aims to develop new analytical methods and support users with experimental design, data acquisition as well as data processing.

NMR Spectroscopy