Scientific Facilities

The light microscopy facility offers a variety of methods and equipment to retrieve all the visible information available from biological specimens. [more]

The Compute Cluster is a centralized service unit which scientists utilize for running complex computations in bioinformatics with extensive processing, memory and storage demand.  [more]

The Electron Microscopy Facility offers a variety of modern techniques to address scientific questions in cellular and molecular biology on an ultrastructural level. [more]

Modern DNA sequencing technology has fundamentally changed the way how key questions in biology are being approached. The Genome Center Facility operates PacBio long-read and Illumina short-read sequencers and provides training and tools to support established methods and to develop novel sequencing-based applications. [more]

The mass spectrometry facility  is equipped with an ultra-high resolution QTOF mass spectrometer (Impact-II, Bruker) and a magnet resonance mass spectrometer with a dual ESI/MALDI ion source (scimaX, Bruker). [more]

The Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility plays an important role in molecular structure determination, especially protein characterization, and conformational analysis. The instrumentation has primarily served the high-resolution research needs for investigators from the Departments of Protein Evolution and Integrative Evolutionary Biology. The services and equipment of the NMR facility are also available to other Max Planck research groups and academic institutions, especially within the University of Tübingen. [more]

The primary goal of structural biology is a mechanistic understanding of biological macromolecules and of biological processes so that they can be described in the language of physics and chemistry. [more]