5-Laser Flowcytometer

• Subject Area: Microbiology, Virology and Immunology
• Term: Funded in 2020
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 438957474

Pursuing a consistent recruitment policy and continuous investment in basic research, the University of Würzburg has created important prerequisites for the successful establishment of a cell biological, infectiological and immunological research focus across the faculties of medicine and natural sciences. In addition to the university institutes, the Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research was recently founded in Würzburg. In order to specifically expand immunological research in Würzburg, three new chairs for systems immunology were also founded in Würzburg. The directors for the chairs Systemimmunology I and Systemimmunology II as well as two junior group leaders have already been recruited and started to build the working groups and the infrastructure. In Würzburg the chair of the institute for Systemimmunology I has established high-resolution confocal microscopy as well as multiphoton intravital microscopy to analyse dynamic immunological processes and successfully applied for the corresponding devices in the context of proposals for major instrumentation at the DFG. The now requested high-end flow cytometer is necessary to successfully carry out ERC-funded projects of (CoG 819329 and StG 759176), DFG funded projects (SPP 1937 and Emmy Noether), as well as the projects of junior research groups. The flow cytometer will be located in the Institute of Systems Immunology in a newly renovated space (BSL-2).

• DFG Programme: Major Research Instrumentation
• Major Instrumentation: 5-Laser Durchflußzytometer
• Instrumentation Group: 3500 Zellzähl- und Klassiergeräte (außer Blutanalyse), Koloniezähler
• Applicant Institution: Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
• Leader: Professor Dr. Wolfgang Kastenmüller