Staying on track – Keeping things running in a high-end scientific imaging core facility

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-04-24 DOI:10.1111/jmi.13304

Oliver Renaud, Nathalie Aulner, Audrey Salles, Nadia Halidi, Maia Brunstein, Adeline Mallet, Karin Aumayr, Stefan Terjung, Daniel Levy, Saskia Lippens, Jean-Marc Verbavatz, Thomas Heuser, Rachel Santarella-Mellwig, Jean-Yves Tinevez, Tatiana Woller, Alexander Botzki, Christopher Cawthorne, The Core4Life Consortium, Sebastian Munck

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Modern life science research is a collaborative effort. Few research groups can single-handedly support the necessary equipment, expertise and personnel needed for the ever-expanding portfolio of technologies that are required across multiple disciplines in today's life science endeavours. Thus, research institutes are increasingly setting up scientific core facilities to provide access and specialised support for cutting-edge technologies. Maintaining the momentum needed to carry out leading research while ensuring high-quality daily operations is an ongoing challenge, regardless of the resources allocated to establish such facilities. Here, we outline and discuss the range of activities required to keep things running once a scientific imaging core facility has been established. These include managing a wide range of equipment and users, handling repairs and service contracts, planning for equipment upgrades, renewals, or decommissioning, and continuously upskilling while balancing innovation and consolidation.

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保持正常运转 - 确保高端科学成像核心设施的正常运行。

现代生命科学研究是一项协作性工作。当今的生命科学研究涉及多个学科，所需的设备、专业知识和人员组合不断扩大，很少有研究小组能够单独提供支持。因此，研究机构正在越来越多地建立科学核心设施，为前沿技术提供获取途径和专业支持。无论为建立此类设施分配了多少资源，在确保高质量日常运作的同时保持开展领先研究的动力都是一项持续的挑战。在此，我们将概述并讨论科学成像核心设施建立后保持正常运行所需的一系列活动。这些活动包括管理各种设备和用户，处理维修和服务合同，规划设备升级、更新或退役，以及在平衡创新和整合的同时不断提高技能。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

期刊介绍： Accounts of Chemical Research presents short, concise and critical articles offering easy-to-read overviews of basic research and applications in all areas of chemistry and biochemistry. These short reviews focus on research from the author’s own laboratory and are designed to teach the reader about a research project. In addition, Accounts of Chemical Research publishes commentaries that give an informed opinion on a current research problem. Special Issues online are devoted to a single topic of unusual activity and significance. Accounts of Chemical Research replaces the traditional article abstract with an article "Conspectus." These entries synopsize the research affording the reader a closer look at the content and significance of an article. Through this provision of a more detailed description of the article contents, the Conspectus enhances the article's discoverability by search engines and the exposure for the research.