Mission

MPI-CBG believes that it is essential to organise research institutes differently in the post-genomic era in order to achieve cost savings, economy of resources, centralization of research functionality, and in order to support the broad range of diverse technologies that are required by a state-of-the-art research institute in the molecular life sciences. Many of the cutting edge technologies need well-trained and dedicated staff in order to extract the maximum potential from the technology. It is this background that encouraged MPI-CBG to centralize as many techniques as possible into central services and facilities.

A service is defined as a unit that performs service jobs, i.e. applies a technology on behalf of a research group or researcher and returns the analysed results to the researcher. A facility is defined as a repository of knowledge, expertise, reagents and tools that provides the functionality but does not perform the actual work.

It is very clear that centralizing services provides enormous benefits for cost effective research and justifies committing considerable resources and energy to establish a services culture that is robust and sustainable.

You can contact the services and facilities of MPI-CBG via email at services@mpi-cbg.de.