Animal House
The Animal House at IMBB is an independent facility consisting of: the main SPF unit which houses 3000-4000 mice for the reproduction and maintenance of pure inbred, outbred, transgenic and knockout strains...
The Animal House at IMBB is an independent facility consisting of: the main SPF unit which houses 3000-4000 mice for the reproduction and maintenance of pure inbred, outbred, transgenic and knockout strains...
The Gene Targeting Facility offers all services associated with the production of conditional or knock-out mice from ES cells. The facility has generated chimeras from gene trap ES cells and targeted ES cells.
Since 1985, IMBB maintains a self-contained Cell Culture Facility that houses all equipment needed for the growth, maintenance, and analysis of animal cells. The facility provides basic support to investigators...
The Fly/Insect facility supports research on Drosophila and other insect species, including species of medical importance (mosquito) and agricultural pests (medfly, olive-fly, flour beetle)...
Tissue preparation can include embedding and sectioning soft and hard tissues, as well as metallic and ceramic implants. Soft tissues can be prepared in paraffin, sectioned, and stained...
The IMBB Cell - Sorting Facility supports the scientific community of Crete for operator-based cell sorting analysis in Basic and Developmental Research. Available technology includes...
The Electrophysiology Unit was established in 2007 with the generous support of the A.G. Leventis Foundation, and has since been significantly upgraded. The Unit contains all the necessary equipment for performing both field and patch-clamp recordings from brain slices and/or cell cultures.
Protein Crystallography activities of IMBB are equipped with appropriate incubators for bacterial cell growth, a fermentor, sonicators for cell lysis, protein purification apparatus (centrifuges, liquid chromatography systems...
Spectrofluorometer: Carry Eclipse, is a photon counting, computer controlled spectrometer equipped with a double grating excitation and a single grating emission monochromator. The instrument can be used for intrinisic...
Biosensors lab, equipped with commercially available optical and acoustic sensing instruments as well as home-made SAW and hybrid SPR/SAW-based measuring systems, are set for performing real time analysis...
IMBB maintains a Fermentation Facility (FF) that focuses on controlled production of biomass (mainly microbial) over a wide range of controlled conditions (temperature, pH, aeration, stirring, etc). The Fermentation Facility was established in 1988...
Protein purification at the IMBB is carried out using several different FPLC and gravity systems, each complete with fraction collectors, UV detectors, prepacked columns, etc and are distributed in 6 stations around the IMBB campus...
The facility is equipped with a Storm 840 Gel and Blot Imaging System. The STORM 840 Phosphorimager is a multiuser instrument with radioactive and nonradioactive detection capabilities...
The Zeiss-Biorad Confocal microscope unit features the following capabilities DICM (Differential Interference Contrast Microscopy). FC/DF/EF (Phase Contrast / Dark Field / Epifluorescence-microscopy)...
High content screening (HCS) is one of the fastest growing microscopy fields in cell biology and combines the automation of fluorescence microscopy coupled with quantitative image analysis...
The Proteomics Facility at IMBB (ProFI) was established in 2009 thanks to a competitive grant from Capacities research funding schemes under the FP7 programme of the European Union. The idea behind ProFI is to spark off integration...
Proteomics
The Genomics Facility (GF) is a core service facility providing state-of-the-art services in high-throughput genomic technologies to researchers, academic community and private organisations.
Genomics Facility
An IS0 9001:2008 certified production unit of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (IMBB) started its operation in 1987.
MINOTECH biotechnology
The IMBB Purchasing & Stockroom facility supports research activity at IMBB-FORTH as well as the research labs that belong to IMBB but are located...
IMBB internal codes and programs' budgets, program's absorption control, orders' limits and detailed monitoring of IMBB expenditures...
Photo Services provides high-quality photography for the FORTH community, the media, and the general public. The photo lab...
The Electronics Workshop supports a vast array of research instrumentation within the IMBB. They also offer a repair and maintenance service...
The mission of the department of systems and networks is to provide information technology support to implement the efficient infrastructure...
For booking information and availability please contact Maria Stiakaki (tel. +30-2810-391100)...
POTAMOS mass spectrometry calculator, an easy to use, free proteomics web tool is developed in the open source application framework Ruby on Rails...
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Technological developments in the area of next generation sequencing (NGS) led to a rapidly increasing rate of production of genome-wide biological data, allowing for an unprecedented view of protein-DNA interactions, RNA quantitation and characterization of the epigenetic landscape.