Facilities

The BZH maintains state-of-the-art facilities to support researchers with advanced technologies. This infrastructure is shared with other institutes on campus and is available to all researchers of the life sciences at Heidelberg University. Currently, the BZH houses three technology platforms:
 
•   Heidelberg Lipidomics, which is headed by Prof. Britta Brügger and offers mass spectrometric analyses for qualitative and quantitative       determination of lipid identity and composition.
 
•   The Protein Crystallization Platform, which is headed by Dr. Jügen Kopp and offers services for protein crystallization for subsequent          structure determination.  The Protein Crystallization Platform is part of the CellNetworks Core Technology Platform.

•   The Electron Microscopy Facility, which is headed by Dr. Dirk Flemming, is part of HDcryoNet and offers comprehensive support for single particle cryo-electron microscopy as well as cryo-electron tomography.