Core facilities

This core facility incorporates the expertise and infrastructure needed for imaging within cellular and molecular biological research, with an emphasis on histological techniques.

In addition to instruments for optical and electron microscopy, the facility also houses equipment for cryomicroscopy, ultramicroscopy and electrophysiology.

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Contact: Prof. dr. J.-P. Timmermans

Contact: dr. Elke Smits 

The CalcUA infrastructure currently consists of the clusters Hopper and Turing, which deliver more that 90 teraflop of computing power.

These facilities enable complex computing tasks to be carried out in a range of fields, including chemistry, physics, computer science, mathematics, biochemistry and linguistics. The facility's computing capacity is made available to external parties.

Contact: Prof. dr. A. Cuyt

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This core facility focuses on the multidisciplinary field of proteomics and consists of a consortium of research units with complementary expertise. The facility has an extensive set of state of the art instruments for liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry.

The services available range from structure elucidation (including PTMs) to quantitative proteomics (label-based or label free), from small molecules to larger polymers and proteins, and from simple to complex compounds.

Contact: Prof. dr. Inge Mertens

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The Genetic Service Facility (GSF) is the result of cooperation between the VIB Department for Molecular Genetics and the University of Antwerp.

Using a robotic platform, the GSF offers various services to academic researchers and third parties, including DNA/RNA extraction, DNA sequence analyses, SNP genotyping and genome-wide STR association analyses.

The services are carried out in a GLP environment supplied with LIMS and linked to the use of ELN.

Contact: Prof. dr. C. Van Broeckhoven

This core facility has extensive experience of in vivo imaging that uses small laboratory animals as models for humans, especially in relation to neurosciences.

The facility uses four scanners to perform nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of small laboratory animals.

Contact: Prof. dr. A. Van Der Linden

StatUA is a forum for knowledge exchange that is available to researchers from the Antwerp University Association (AUHA) who are carrying out research in statistics or applying statistics in their research.

The facility's services include short courses and workshops which are also open to external parties.

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