Services To The Australian Scientific Community

As in Europe, the services and facilities developed within the EMBL Australia Scientific Program will be designed to serve a very broad community that includes basic biology researchers, clinicians, and researchers from the pharmaceutical industry, agriculture and ecology. The Core Facilities at EMBL are internationally renown for providing a number of high-level support teams that help the scientific community by providing easy access to well-equipped facilities, both in terms of human resources and state of the art equipment. The support activities need to be tailored to the demands of the community and the staff members hired for such activities need to clearly understand their role. The support activities also need to evolve with the science carried out in the units of the laboratory. Having functioning Core Facilities proves to be advantageous not only in terms of workload and efficiency aspects but also in terms of cost of projects. The continuous investment in state-of-the-art technologies will allow EMBL-Australia scientists and external visitors from our member states to have access to a set of advanced technology platforms.