European Zebrafish Resource Center (EZRC) at KIT

Описание: The KIT houses the largest experimental fish facility in Europe with a capacity of more than 300.000 fish.

The facility is now being further enlarged to serve as a European Zebrafish Resource Center (EZRC). This center will be unique as it will not only maintain and distribute a large number of existing mutant and transgenic zebrafish lines but will also provide screening services and technologies such as imaging and high-throughput sequencing.

In close interaction with physicists, engineers and IT specialists, we are actively expanding the medium/high throughput screening technologies that have been recently established at KIT.

Key areas include automation of embryo handling and automated image acquisition and processing. Our platform also involves the development of novel microscopy techniques, (e.g. SPIM, DSLM, robotic macroscope) to permit high-resolution, real-time imaging in 4D. Furthermore, computational methods pave the way for virtual screens where researchers anywhere in the world will be able to link into the EZRC database to access the high resolution models of wild-type, transgenic, mutant and chemically exposed embryos for particular traits of interest.

For more Information visit http://www.ezrc.kit.edu/