The EMBRC+ Core facility is a university-wide core facility offering access to unique Marine biological resources and state-of-the-art experimental and analytical infrastructure and expertise.
What is a Core Facility?
A Core Facility brings together highly specialised and indispensable scientific expertise, services and research infrastructure in a real or virtual entity. A Core Facility promotes cooperation between researchers, both internally and externally, and elaborates a strategy for the renewal and/or expansion of the research infrastructure within the Core Facility. Its use is open to all researchers within the Core Facility and/or other users within and outside Ghent University.
EMBRC+ Core Facility
Within the EMBRC+ Core facility, 5 research groups within UGent aim to consolidate and expand their contribution to the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC) by optimizing access to unique biological resources and state-of-the-art experimental and analytical infrastructure and expertise at UGent via a core facility.
Because of the broad scope of the core facility, it attracts a diverse range of interdisciplinary users from different sectors. The EMBRC+ core facility supports research in topics such as:
- Marine model organisms
- Ecosystem structure and functioning
- Biodiversity and biodiversity response to stressors