Scientific Service & Facilities

At our institute, we use a wide range of state-of-the-art methods. Many of these technologies, be it electron microscopy, mass spectrometry, fluorescence light microscopy, or crystallization, require profound experience and expertise. Our researchers therefore receive active support for their projects from our scientific facilities which are headed by highly qualified colleagues. 


Scientific Facilities

The Animal Facility keeps mice, rats, rabbits, guinea pig, frogs, starfish, planarians, and alpacas for scientific research projects. The transgenic laboratory offers techniques for assisted reproduction and for generation of transgenic mouse lines.
The Bioreactor Facility provides an upscale of your established processes under optimal and controlled growth conditions and a harvesting pipeline.
The Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility provides access to infrastructure for single-particle cryo-EM sample screening and data acquisition.
The Crystallization Facility provides services and infrastructure for the crystallization of macromolecules and macromolecular complexes including screening service, in situ diffraction tests, and organization of remote synchrotron time.
The Core Facility Data Sciences und Biostatistics offers data analysis support for proteogenomics, classical bioinformatics, modelling, and biostatistics.
The Electron Microscopy City Campus works in the field of biological ultrastructure research in cooperation with scientists at the institute and the Göttingen Campus.
The Transmission Electron Microscopy Facility offers a platform for all researchers at the institute to discuss, plan, and perform transmission electron microscopic experiments.
The Light Microscopy Facility supports colleagues and external collaborators during experimental design, image acquisition and analysis phases.
Technology platform for proteomic phenotyping of mouse models of neuropsychiatric relevance. Design and synthesis of functionalized peptides for the characterization of synaptic protein complexes.
The Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) Facility offers Illumina sequencing on a NextSeq 2000. Additionally, we have an Agilent Fragment Analyzer for quality control of the libraries.
The Proteomics Facility, a part of the Bioanalytical Mass Spectrometry research group, offers a variety of routine proteomics analyses.
The Facility for Synthetic Chemistry synthesizes and analyzes organic compounds required for various research projects.

Scientific Service

The GAUSS Career Service is a service for all junior researchers at our institute and in the life and natural sciences at the Göttingen Campus. Apart from offers for career support and advice, it aims at facilitating the networking within the postdoc community.
The EU Liaison Office offers its assistance to scientists of the Max Planck Institutes in Göttingen  in regard to all questions related to EU funding.
The Office for Research Support provides regular information of staff members about research funding and current calls, advice, and support when applying and organizes seminars addressing funding.
Merged from the former Otto Hahn Library and the Karl Thomas Library, the 2023 Publication and Information Service offers a wide range of services for the Max Planck Campus.
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