I am in the process of getting a core facility up and running and have run into something of a brick wall, namely our administration. Our facility consists of a high speed cell sorter (MoFlo), a confocal laser scanning microscope (Zeiss 410) and an automated sequencer (ABI). We are gradually getting more users from outside our department (both from within and outside of the university). Our goal is to be self- supporting so we would like to get reimbursed for reagents, maintenance/repairs, etc. We aren't talking massive profits here, simply covering our costs and at the same time being able to help out those outside users as well. What I would dearly like to have are some names or contacts at other core facilities at institutes in Europe and especially Germany where people are reimbursed for their services in any of the above mentioned areas by users from other departments. I have seen the list on the Purdue web site, but that is primarily U.S. sites, and it would be better to have some more local ones that I could use as examples for our administration. Thanks, Marie Follo P.S. You haven't experienced true bureaucracy until you've experienced German Bureaucracy (I hadn't anyway). ========================================================== Marie Follo, Ph.D. Core Facility Abt. Innere Medizin I Universitaetsklinik Freiburg Hugstetterstr. 55 79106 Freiburg Germany E-mail: follo@mm11.ukl.uni-freiburg.de =========================================================
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Wed Apr 03 2002 - 11:49:48 EST