Jussi Helppi

The Services and Facilities at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany offer centralised research support within the Institute ensuring state-of-the-art equipment and expertise. They set a quality standard for the application of technologies including the accurate interpretation and representation of data.

The Dresden Model has had a remarkablepositive impact on success and productivity of the Institute as a whole. But after more than a decade of success it is time to look into what must be done to safeguard that achievement for the decade to come.

In this session, we take a look at Max Planck Institute’s new strategic viewpoints on how we have started to tacklethe challengeof the next decade. This includes, among others;

Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG), Dresden, Germany has been able to provide cutting edge technology through effective models used to manage the budget, operations and maintenance of scientific equipment. The Services and Facilities at MPI-CBG allow research scientists shared access to sophisticated and expensive technologies that would be hard or impossible for the institute to provide to each research group independently. They “free-up” research groups from the burden of time consuming established technologies, as well as continuously explore new and emerging technologies and new instrumentation. Purchase of equipment is centrally coordinated to allow efficient use of Institute’s resources. The centralised operation and maintenance of instruments is essential to enable equal and fair access to all research groups, allowing each instrument to be used to its’ full potential.

In this workshop, you will learn: