EMBRC Core Facility

What is EMBRC?

The European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC), is a European Research Infrastructure (RI) for marine biology and ecology, providing access to marine biodiversity and ecosystems and access to services and facilities to help researchers from academia and industry to explore the ocean and develop innovative and sustainable blue bioeconomy solutions to pressing societal issues. Ghent University coordinates the Belgian node of EMBRC. Other institutes involved are Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), University of Leuven (KU Leuven), Hasselt University (UHasselt) and the Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS).  

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 (whether or not across disciplines and/or user groups). 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.

Within the EMBRC+ Core facility, 5 research groups within UGent aim to consolidate and expand their contribution to 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. The EMBRC+ core facility supports research in topics such as marine model organisms, ecosystem structure and functioning, biodiversity, and biodiversity response to stressors. Because of the broad scope of the core facility, it attracts a diverse range of interdisciplinary users from different sectors.