This project has been made possible in part by a grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
EMBL Node is a Euro-BioImaging Node located at EMBL Heidelberg and it features state-of-the-art technologies light and electron microscopy technologies and services. It consists of two imaging core facilities, Advanced Light Microscopy Facility (ALMF) and Electron Microscopy Core Facility (EMCF) as well as newly established EMBL Imaging Centre.
ALMF offers a collection of state-of-the-art light microscopy equipment and image processing tools, supporting in-house scientists and visitors in using light microscopy methods for their research. The ALMF also regularly organises in-house and international courses to teach basic and advanced light microscopy methods and image analysis. It currently manages more than 20 advanced light microscopy systems and 10 high content microscopes from leading industrial companies. Several workstations for image analysis are also provided.
For more information about the ALMF including the full list of equipment and services, see this page.
EMCF is home to 4 TEM’s and 2 SEM’s together with advanced equipment for sample preparation. We cover a large spectrum of EM techniques with a major focus on sample preparation, ultrastructural analysis in 2D and 3D, correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM) and data processing. The EMCF hosts a number of international and internal courses per year focusing on diverse EM techniques, with the content ranging from sample preparation to image analysis. Likewise, we offer several training opportunities for in-house scientists and external users of the facility.
For more information about the EMCF including the full list of equipment and services, see this page.
Advanced Light Microscopy Facility: https://www.embl.org/groups/advanced-light-microscopy-core-facility/
Electron Microscopy Core Facility: https://www.embl.org/groups/electron-microscopy-core-facility/
Aspects related to user access
Core facility management
Software tools
Image data storage and analysis
Hands-on
Open seminars at EMBL
Workshops, courses, conferences (via subscription and subject to selection)
Varies, to be defined in advance on a case-by-case basis
The EMBL Imaging Centre is a new EMBL service unit at Heidelberg, Germany for the highest resolution EM and LM technologies and the combination thereof (correlative technologies), including academically developed methods not yet commercially available.
The main mission of the EMBL Imaging Centre is to rapidly make the most advanced microscopy technologies available as a synergistic service portfolio to the international user community from both academia and industry to enable new ground-breaking research that crosses the scales of biology. The EMBL Imaging Centre is providing support to user projects from sample preparation to image analysis with expert staff, and offers tailored training opportunities in the highest resolution EM and LM technologies.
EM technologies cover all scales from single-particle cryo-electron microscopy and cryo-tomography to (cryo-)CLEM and cellular/tissue volume electron microscopy.
LM technologies cover all scales from the latest (cryo-)super-resolution technologies to high-speed and high resolution live-cell, as well as intravital and deep tissue imaging, with a focus on non-commercial, academically developed technologies.
Available instruments at the EMBL Imaging Centre:
EMBL Imaging Cenre: https://www.embl.org/about/info/imaging-centre/
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Aspects related to user access
Hands-on instrument training
Image data storage and analysis
Software tools
Open seminars at EMBL
Workshops, courses, conferences (via subscription and subject to selection)
Facility manager
Imaging specialist
The length of the stay depends on the specific workflows. Generally, a visit can last from one week to one month
