Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
| Location | IMG – building F, 1st floor, room 1.62 |
| Contacts | Phone: +420 241 062 219 |
The Microscopy Centre coordinates and provides logistical support to the large research infrastructures Czech-BioImaging and Euro-BioImaging. The Centre mainly serves as the hub of the Czech-BioImaging infrastructure and as the coordinator of the Advanced Light and Electron Microscopy Node Prague (Prague Node) of the Euro-BioImaging ERIC consortium.
With the affiliated microscopy facilities, the Centre offers users “open access” to a wide range of state-of-the-art light and electron microscopy instruments and techniques, consultation services, sample preparation, data acquisition and analysis, image processing tools, and interpretation of the obtained results.
The Centre, together with the light microscopy and electron microscopy facilities, organizes hands-on and theory-based training workshops in microscopy. The Centre maintains long-term cooperation with other members of the national microscopy community, including the Czechoslovak Microscopy Society and microscope manufacturers, with a focus on developing new microscopy methods and innovating existing instruments.
Czech-BioImaging
The Microscopy Centre coordinates the Czech-BioImaging infrastructure (CzBI). CzBI is a national research infrastructure for biological and medical imaging. The infrastructure is currently supported by several projects provided by the Ministry of Education, Youth, and Sports. These projects are “National Infrastructure for Biological and Medical Imaging (Czech-BioImaging)” LM2015062 (2016 – 2019), LM2018129 (2020 – 2022) and LM2023050 (2023 – 2026).
The Centre operates the hub of the CzBI infrastructure and functions as the secretariat of the CzBI steering and advisory bodies, it maintains the CzBI website and database, and coordinates all CzBI activities, e.g. user access, training, and joint projects.
Prague Node of Euro-BioImaging ERIC
The Microscopy Centre coordinates the participation of the Czech Republic in the pan-European research infrastructure project Euro-BioImaging ERIC (EuBI), which provides the access to the top-level imaging technologies, offers professional assistance, organizes training, and helps the users with the biological and biomedical imaging data management. Furthermore, the Centre represented EuBI in the Horizon 2020 project “Research Infrastructures Training Programme (RItrain)” and participates in the Horizon Europe projects (ISIDORe, canSERV and IMAGINE).
The Centre also functions as hub of the EuBI Node “Prague Node“, which composes of the imaging facilities of the Institute of Molecular Genetics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Physiology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Botany of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Czech Academy of Science, and BIOCEV of Charles University.
The Microscopy Centre is supported by the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the Czech Republic and co-funded by the European Union.
