Infrastructure Groups and Service Units

The MPI-MP employs scientific Infrastructure Groups and Service Units. In addition to their own research programmes, these groups operate the scientific infrastructure and provide central support for the institute as a whole in their respective areas of expertise.

Lush green plants growing inside a sealed chamber with attached tubes.

Applied Metabolome Analysis

The “Applied Metabolome Analysis” research group of Dr. Joachim Kopka provides gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) based metabolite profiling technologies

The integration of sequence and gene expression data led to the identification of novel putative regulatory elements in the genome of the plant Arabidopsis thaliana.

Bioinformatics

The Bioinformatics group led by Prof. Dr. Dirk Walther supports the experimental research activities at the institute by applying and developing bioinformatics methods and algorithms for the analyses of complex datasets.

Fluorescent seedlings display varied intensity against a black background.

Biophysics and Photosynthesis

The mission of Dr. Mark Aurel Schöttler's central infrastructure group “Biophysics and Photosynthesis” is to support photosynthesis-related measurements in the institute.

Plant Cell Biology and Morphodynamics

The infrastructure group led by Dr. Arun Sampathkumar provides research groups at the MPI-MP with access to a technology platform containing light and electron microscopes, as well as scientific and technical assistance to meet their cell biological needs.

Advanced sensor equipment monitors crops in a greenhouse environment.

Plant Cultivation and Transformation

The infrastructure group of Dr. Karin Köhl develops and uses reproducible and efficient methods for plant cultivation in phytotrons, greenhouse, polytunnel-screenhouse and in the field.