Facilities
The EMBL Hamburg Unit provides the following services to research community:
- Experiment facilities in macromolecular X-ray crystallography, using synchrotron radiation from the storage ring DORIS-III. Experiment facilities in macromolecular X-ray crystallography, using synchrotron radiation from the storage ring DORIS-III.
- Experiment facilities in small angle X-ray scattering of biological samples, using synchrotron radiation from the storage ring DORIS-III.
- Automated crystallisation facilities with remote services.
- Limited access to in-house facilities in molecular biology, heterologous expression, protein purification and biochemistry.
- Technology transfer services are provided by EMBLEM, an affiliate and the commercial arm of the EMBL.
EMBL Hamburg currently operates six experimental stations with applications in structural biology, using synchrotron radiation from the DORIS-III ring. Five of them are beamlines for Macromolecular Crystallography (MX), the sixth one for Small Angle X-Ray Scattering.
Our facilities are used by more than 170 visiting research groups for about 450 projects annually. They are available to all research groups, and the access is prioritised on scientific grounds only. Project proposals for beamline access are evaluated by an international priorities committee.
We also operate a fully automated platform for the high-throughput crystallisation of biological macromolecules in order to address a common bottleneck in x-ray crystallography. The services of this facility are available to the general user community.
Furthermore, the EMBL Hamburg unit offers a variety of computational services. These include facilities for remote computing on the EMBL Hamburg computer cluster and software packages developed at EMBL Hamburg for downloading.
In the near future, EMBL Hamburg will build an integrated infrastructure for life science applications using synchrotron radiation. The future facilities will be situated at the PETRA storage ring, which is operated by Helmholtz Research Centre DESY in Hamburg-Bahrenfeld. The ring will be converted into a dedicated low emittance synchrotron radiation facility with expected leading optical parameters, named PETRA-III.
Further inquiries may be made to info@embl-hamburg.de.
The EMBL Hamburg Unit provides the following services to research community:
- Experiment facilities in macromolecular X-ray crystallography, using synchrotron radiation from the storage ring DORIS-III.
- Experiment facilities in macromolecular X-ray crystallography, using synchrotron radiation from the storage ring DORIS-III.
- Experiment facilities in small angle X-ray scattering of biological samples, using synchrotron radiation from the storage ring DORIS-III.
- Automated crystallisation facilities with remote services.
- Limited access to in-house facilities in molecular biology, heterologous expression, protein purification and biochemistry.
- Technology transfer services are provided by EMBLEM, an affiliate and the commercial arm of the EMBL.