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Short Description
The Core Facility serves the controlled culture of biomodels and organisms for biomedical and ecological research directions in biological safety levels 1 and 2. For the culture and biobanking of biomedically relevant cell and tissue models (cell cultures, 3-D organotypic cultures and organoid cultures), incubators, sterile benches and ultra-low temperature cooling systems including monitored nitrogen tanks are used.
Controlled ecological experiments are carried out in 2 climate chambers and wet laboratories, in the aquarium house and climate chambers. Experimental containers range from several 650 L mesocosms to aquariums and terrariums of different sizes to flow channels and specially manufactured microcosms. The measuring devices (multiprobe, light measuring devices, microelectrodes, flow velocity, GPS) are required for the exact determination of the environmental conditions in the field and laboratory. With the help of microscopes (reverse, epifluorescence and stereo magnifiers), the investigation organisms are prepared for experiments, and taxonomically determined or analyzed in field samples or experiments.
Contact Person
Univ. - Prof. Dr. Fritz Aberger
Research Services
Culture and archiving of model systems for biomedical research
Culturing and Experiments in meso- and microcosms
Using model metacommunities to examine adaptation to environmental changes (e.g. temperature and nutrient regimes)
Climate Change research in aquatic and terrestrial habitats
Evolutionary processes in ecological time scales
Methods & Expertise for Research Infrastructure
The Core Facility "Archiving and Cultivation of Organisms" is central to the core competencies of the biological departments. In the field of biomedical research and teaching, the Core Facility is a central facility for the culture and archiving of human-relevant biomodels such as 3-D tissue cultures, complex cell cultures, organotypic cultures, organoid cultures and human biobanks. In the field of aquatic ecology and zoological evolutionary biology, precisely controlled environmental conditions (e.g. light and temperature) are required in order to be able to carry out replicable and statistically evaluable experiments. In order to cultivate the organisms for experiments and to maintain sufficiently large populations or to isolate the target organisms from the field and prepare them for experiments, climate chambers with controllable temperature and light conditions are necessary. In the course of research-led teaching (Bachelor, Master, dissertations, teaching), experiments in mesocosms and microcosms are also carried out.
University of Göttingen
University of Erlangen
German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg
University of Vienna
University of Ghent
Ludwig-Maximillian-University of Munich
University of Bayreuth
University of Ulm
University of Würzburg
University of Palermo
Paracelsus University Clinic Salzburg
Salzburg Cancer Research Institute
Botanical Garden Garten University Warschau
University of Sao Paulo
University of Belo Horizonte
University of Recife
University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu
Cornell University, Department of Neurobiology and Behavior, Ithaca
Virginia Tech, Department of Biological Sciences, Blacksburg
2015-2019
Stephen Wickham
Science without Borders - Brasil
Lokale Anpassungen des Aronstabs an seine Bestäuber
2017-2020
Dötterl, S; Comes, HP; Hörger, A
FWF
Functional responses of plant communities and plant-pollinator interactions to altitudinal gradients and climate change
2016-2019
Junker, R
FWF
Trait evolution in the adaptive radiation of Madagascan Bulbophyllum
2017-2020
H.P. Comes; Co-PI: A. Gamisch
FWF
Aufbau von universitären DNA-Barcoding-Pipelines für ABOL
2017-2020
Andreas Tribsch et al.
Ministry of Science and Economy
2020
Di Carvalho, J. A., and S. A. Wickham
Oecologia 194: 695-707.
Does Mixotrophy in ciliates compensate for poor-quality prey? Experiments with heterotrophic–mixotrophic species pairs
2019
Wickham, S. A., and R. Wimmer
Journal of Plankton Research 41: 583-593.
Spatial insurance in multi‐trophic metacommunities.
2019
Limberger, R., A. Pitt, M. W. Hahn, and S. A. Wickham
Ecol. Lett. 22: 1828-1837.
Simulating eutrophication in a metacommunity landscape: an aquatic model ecosystem
2018
Antonucci Di Carvalho, Josie; Wickham, Stephen A.
Oeologia
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-018-4319-8
Deceptive Ceropegia dolichophylla fools its kleptoparasitic fly pollinators with exceptional floral scent
2015
Heiduk, A; Kong, H; Brake, I; von Tschirnhaus, M; Tolasch, T; Tröger, AG; Wittenberg, E; Francke, W; Meve, U; Dötterl, S
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2015.00066/abstract
Diacetin, a reliable cue and private communication channel in a specialized pollination system
2015
Schäffler, I; Steiner, KE; Haid, M; van Berkel, SS; Gerlach, G; Johnson, SD; Wessjohann, L; Dötterl, S
Scientific Reports
http://www.nature.com/articles/srep12779
History or ecology? Substrate type as a major driver of spatial genetic structure in Alpine plants
2009
Alvarez, N., Thiel-Egenter, C., Tribsch, A., Manel, St., Taberlet, P., Küpfer, Ph., Holderegger, R., Brodbeck, S., Gaudeul, M., Gielly, L., Mansion, G., Negrini, R., Paun, O., Pellecchia, M., Rioux, D., Schönswetter, P., Schüpfer, F., van Loo, M., Winkler, M., Gugerli, F. & IntraBioDivdiv Consortium. 2009.
Ecology Letters 12(7), 632-640.
Allopolyploid origins of the Galeopsis tetraploids ─ revisiting Müntzing’s classical textbook example using molecular tools
2011
Bendiksby, M., Tribsch, A., Borgen, L., Trávníček, P., Brysting, A.K
New Phytologist 191, 1150-1167.
Plant speciation in continental island floras as exemplified by Nigella in the Aegean Archipelago
2008
Comes H.P., Tribsch A. & Bittkau C.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society London, Series B, Biological Sciences, 363, 3083–3096
Frequent but asymmetric niche shifts in Bulbophyllum orchids supportenvironmental and climatic instability in Madagascar over Quaternary time scales
2016
Gamisch A., Fischer G.A. & Comes H.P.
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 16, 14
Multiple independent origins of auto-pollination in tropical orchids (Bulbophyllum) in light of the hypothesis of selfing as an evolutionary dead end
2015
Gamisch A., Fischer G.A. & Comes H.P.
BMC Evolutionary Biology, 15, 192
Long-distance plant dispersal to North Atlantic islands: colonization routes and founder effect
2015
Greve Alsos, I., Ehrich, D., Bronken Eidesen, P., Solstad, H., Bakke Westergaard, K., Schönswetter, P., Tribsch, A., Birkeland, S., Reidar Elven, R., Brochmann, Ch.
AoB Plants 7
DOI: 10.1093/aobpla/plv036
Genetic consequences of climate change for northern plants
2012
Greve Alsos, I., Ehrich, D., Thuiller, W., Bronken Eidesen, P., Tribsch, A., Schönswetter, P., Lagaye, C., Taberlet, P., Brochmann, Ch.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279, 2042-2051