Core Facilities
The Core Facilities Working group was established in 2015 to create a forum for discussion of core facility-specific challenges.
Current focus is on the following:
- Sharing best practices and expertise in core facility management
- Comparing indicators across institutes: financial, personnel, operations, research, training, and performance evaluation
- Defining opportunities and procedures for capacity sharing between EU-LIFE institutes
- Collaboration on the level of training courses, grant applications, etc…
- Data management issues (together with IT Working Group)
- Participation in a dialogue to foster European funding opportunities for core facilities and core facility networks
- Policy work on visibility of core facilities and small-medium scale research infrastructures
Projects
Publications
- Overview of EU-LIFE Core Facilities Benchmarking Survey 2021
- Acknowledging and citing core facilities (EMBO reports)
Latest events
- EU-LIFE TechWatch series - Showcasing new cytometry technologies
- EU-LIFE TechWatch series - Molecular biophysics in EU-LIFE Core Facilities
- EU-LIFE TechWatch series - CRISPR/Cas9 methodology
- EU-LIFE Core Facilities Benchmarking Report Exchange Session
- EU-LIFE TechWatch series - ZEISS Visions in Microscopy driven by innovation
- EU-LIFE TechWatch series - Olink Proteomics
Members
Mónica Morales, CRG, Co-Chair
Jutta Steinkoetter, MDC, Co-Chair
Danielle Hoyle, Babraham Institute
Rajesh Somasundaram, BRIC
Kateřina Hošková, CEITEC
Michael Schuster, CeMM
Marc Wiedner, CeMM
Pirkko Mattila, FIMM
Bernhard Korn, FMI
Tatiana Malherbe, Institut Curie
Diego Pasini, IEO
Miryam Alcalay, IEO
Marta Monteiro, IGC
Nuno Moreno, IGC
Joanna Dodzian, IIMCB
Krzysztof Skowronek, IIMCB
Theodoros Kosteas, IMBB-FORTH
Vasiliki Theodorou, IMBB-FORTH
Georgios Gouridis, IMBB-FORTH
Matthieu Lavigne, IMBB-FORTH
Sonja Hansen, MDC
Henri van Luenen, NKI
Geert Van Minnebruggen, VIB
Saskia Lippens, VIB