Biopolis Dresden Imaging Platform

BioDIP's History

The BioDIP has developed over a couple of years. Major steps were the foundation of the Imaging Facilities Network (IFN) in 2006 and later the foundation of the BioDIP in 2013 enabled by the DFG "Core facilities" funding.
Here you find the timeline containing minor and major milestones of BioDIPs development.

01Mar2006

Jeremy Sanderson has left the LMF at MPI-CBG

He has moved back to England and started as a facility manager at Sheffield University.

01Mar2006

The Dresden Imaging Facilities have teamed up:
Imaging Facility Network

Due to having divided his working time between the MPI and the MTZ light microscopy facilities, Michael Weber acutely feels the need for a closer collaboration of the imaging community on the Dresden campus.
He initializes the  Imaging Facilities Network (IFN), which comprises light microscopy facilities at the MPI-CBG, the MTZ and the BIOTEC.

01Dec2005

2 in 1: Michael Weber has joined the LMFs at MPI and MTZ

Michael has founded the MTZ Imaging Facility, starting with two confocal microcopes, while simultaniously working for the LMF at MPI-CBG.

01Oct2005

Britta Schroth-Diez has joined the LMF at MPI CBG

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