General guidelines

• The Microbial Automation and Culturomics Core Facility offers a wide range of instruments and resources that can be flexibly combined to support your research needs. To ensure our equipment and services are suitable for your project, please contact us at maccore@embl.de with a short summary of your project. We’ll discuss the feasible of the project and contact you for a meeting.
• MACCF operates under BSL2 conditions. Therefore, it’s compulsory to complete the S2 biosafety trainingoffered each month by the EMBL Health and Safety team.
• Projects involving S2 genetically modified organisms must always be reported separately and require their own project approval from the relevant German authorities. This typically takes 6-8 weeks. Please contact us well in advance to assist in coordination with the EMBL Health & Safety Office with all necessary documentation.
• Users will be trained on the equipment by the facility personnel. Once self-efficient, they’ll be able to operate them autonomously.
• If you publish work supported by MACCF, it is obligatory to include this sentence in the acknowledgments:
  We thank the Microbial Automation and Culturomics Core Facility (MACCF) at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) for their support.
  In addition, if a staff member of the MACCF contributes substantially to a published work, the staff member should be included as an author in the published work.
• Travel and accommodation costs for young scientists visiting EMBL Core Facilities could be supported by the Christian Boulin Fellowships

Booking and data management

• Booking of the equipment by the user is compulsory.
• Users are responsible for the equipment they use for the full duration of their booking.
• Please remember to cancel your booking, if you will not use it.
• Users need to move their data to their group server, after the booking is completed. 

MACCF will delete data saved on PCs on a weekly basis.