Facilities

Central Microscopy Facility of the Faculty of Biology & Psychology
Core Facility Proteomics
Service Unit LCMS Protein Analytics
Service Unit for Metabolomics & Lipidomics
Service Unit for Molecular Structural Biology

Shared Instruments
Dept. of Molecular Biology: (link)

  • Flow Cytometry
  • Membrane Protein Solubilization
  • Surface Plasmon Resonance
  • Synthetic Genetic Analysis (SGA) in yeast
  • Yeast Molecular Cell Biology

  • Dept. of Cellular Biochemistry: (link)
  • Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy
  • Delta Vision; deconvolution-microscope
  • Peptide synthesis Peptide/protein MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry
  • Real-time measurements of cellular bioenergetics (Seahorse XF96)

  • Dept. for Biophysical Chemistry: (link)
  • Mechanics of small systems
  • Mechanics of single molecules
  • Local Mechanics and Dynamics of Cells and Membranes
  • Mimicking Membrane Docking and Fusion

  • Dept. for Plant Biochemistry: (link)
  • Lipidomics
  • Metabolite analysis
  • Metabolomics
  • Plant growth chambers
  • Transient expression systems for plants

  • Dept. for Evolutionary Developmental Genetics: (link)
  • Facility for high throughput organismic RNAi screening

  • Institute of Molecular Oncology: (link)
  • Flow cytometry
  • Fluorescence-microscope for high content screening
  • Quantitative light microscopy unit for high throughput
  • Quantitative PCR

  • Dept. for Molecular Structural Biology: (link)
  • Automated protein crystallization and crystal imaging
  • Bioorthogonal Labelling Reactions for Proteins
  • Genetic Code Expansion / Unnatural Amino Acid Mutagenesis
  • Lysine Acetylation
  • Multimode Plate Reader (Fluostar)
  • Nucleosome Reconstitution
  • Production of recombinant proteins at a large scale
  • UV-induced Crosslinking
  • X-ray diffractometer

  • Dept. of Genomic and Applied Microbiology: (link)
  • Anaerobic cultivation of microorganisms
  • Cultivation of microorganisms at large scale
  • Genome and Transcriptome sequencing

  • Institute for Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry: (link)
  • Mass Spectrometry
  • NMR

  • Dept. for Molecular Microbiology and Genetics: (link)
  • Protein Mass Spectrometry
  • LCMS Protein Analytics

  • Dept. of Bioinformatics: (link)
  • Genome analysis
  • Machine Learning
  • Metabolome analysis
  • Protein families

  • Dept. for Medical Microbiology: (link)
  • Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy

  • Dept. for General Microbiology: (link)
  • Electron Microscopy

  • Dept. for Molecular Biology of Livestock: (link)
  • Chromosome mapping
  • Genome scanning
  • Megabase-Techniques

  • Dept. for Molecular Wood Biotechnology: (link)
  • Protein identification by Mass Spectrometry

  • Dept. for Forest Botany and Tree Physiology: (link)
  • EDX-transmission Electron Microscope
  • Fully equipped laboratory for radio-isotopes (central university facility)
  • Scanning Electron Microscope

  • Dept. for Cellular Neurobiology: (link)
  • Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy

  • Electron Microscopy
  • Electrophysiology
  • Live imaging
  • Scanning laser Doppler vibrometry

  • Dept. for Genetics of Eukaryotic Microorganisms: (link)
  • Fluorescence Microscopy

  • Dept. for Molecular Enzymology: (link)
  • Isothermal titration calorimetry
  • Optical Spectroscopy
  • Rapid reaction facility (stopped-flow, quench flow)

  • Dept. for Plant Molecular Biology and Physiology: (link)
  • Biolistic Particle Delivery System for gene transfer experiment
  • ChemoCam and CCD camera for chemoluminescence detection
  • Maxi-Imaging PAM Chlorophyll Fluorometer
  • Real time RT PCR machines

  • Dept. for Plant Cell Biology: (link)
  • Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy