News

2022

Members from our facility participated in organizing and attending various courses and training events:

• EU-LIFE Core Facilities Working Group. TechWatch series on: Custom genetic modifications of mice using CRISPR/Cas methodologies
• 8th International Course "Care and Use of Laboratory Animals" FELASA accredited
• FELASA Congress in Marseille, France
• Visit to Tokai University, Japan. EMBO Core Facility Fellowship
•  Eirini joins our team!

Winter 2019

Members from our facility participated in various meetings & courses such as:

• RSPCA Meeting on Severe Suffering. Athens, Greece
• 12th FORTH Scientific Retreat. Patras, Greece
• 2nd Meeting of the Greek Laboratory Animal Welfare Committee. Thessaloniki, Greece
• EMBO Practical Course: Humanized Mice in Biomedicine: Challenges and Innovations. Heidelberg, Germany.
• Surgical Techniques & Cryopreservation demonstration. Department of Health Sciences, University of Florence, Italy

March 2018

IMBB Trangenesis Facility has initiated setting-up standardized mouse archiving services. To request sperm freezing and IVF service fill out the online form. Embryo-freezing service will be available in the coming months.

Events

August 2019

The IMBB Animal Facility is a partner in the Greek node of the InfrafrontierGR/Phenotypos project: for phenotyping and archiving of model mammalian genomes ( www.infrafrontier.gr ). With available funding from the INFRAFRONTIER program and the IMBB, we further upgraded our infrastructure by: i) relocating/upgrading our High level SPF unit ii) installed an air shower and cage/bottle washer in our SPF unit iii) upgraded our transgenesis & cryopreservation unit with a new microscope unit, micromanipulators and electroporator iv) hired two new staff members and v) we are currently completing the set-up of our Institutes’ new mouse behavioral, electrophysiology and in vivo imaging laboratories.