Remote access
The TNA programme of ASSEMBLE Plus is now closed.
In case you are looking for TNA opportunities, please check the EMBRC website.
In case you are looking for TNA opportunities, please check the EMBRC website.
Remote access
Transnational Access normally means that you as a user are hosted at the access provider and carry out your work there. However, access to some types of services does not require you to be physically present. We call this “remote access”.
Services for remote access include (but are not restricted to):
a) Sample and specimen collection, processing and shipment
b) Taxonomic identification of specimens
c) Rearing of organisms
d) Analytical procedures
e) Procurement of strains from culture collections
Applications requiring exclusively remote access are reviewed on rolling basis
Deadline for proposal submission: 17 February 2022.
Check in the expandable blocks below the research services offered for remote access projects. Once you find the research service required for your project, please follow the instructions on the "How to apply" page". The guide "Application step by step" provides information on how to submit a remote access request (check "Step 2" of the submission procedure).
Research services offered for remote access
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Ecosystem access
| Subcategory | description | access provider | liaison officer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coastal research vessels | Coastal research vessels for accessing Southern Galician Rias. 7.5 m cruise, RHIB | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Coastal research vessels | Coastal research vessel equipped for habitat sampling, monitoring and in-situ experiments | IOPAN | Piotr Kuklinski | kuki@iopan.pl |
| Coastal research vessels | Coastal research vessel at Rothera point | NERC-BAS | Melody Clark | mscl@bas.ac.uk |
| Coastal research vessels | Motor boats for access to the Baltic Sea, Open sea, Coastal Zone | UG-HMS | Maciej Wolowicz | ocemw@univ.gda.pl |
| Coastal research vessels | Research vessel "Oceanograf" for access to Baltic Sea (open sea and coastal zone). Multibeam imaging sonar | UG-IO | Maciej Wolowicz | ocemw@univ.gda.pl |
| Scuba diving facilities | Equipment for diving at Svalbard (summer) and Baltic Sea (all year) | IOPAN | Piotr Kuklinski | kuki@iopan.pl |
| Scuba diving facilities | Facilities for diving at Rothera point | NERC-BAS | Melody Clark | mscl@bas.ac.uk |
| Scuba diving facilities | Facilities for the access to the coastal zone of the Baltic Sea | UG-HMS | Maciej Wolowicz | ocemw@univ.gda.pl |
| Scuba diving facilities | Facilities for the access to the coastal zone of the Baltic Sea | UG-IO | Maciej Wolowicz | ocemw@univ.gda.pl |
| Sampling equipment | Dredges, CTD, side-scan Sonar, Niskin flasks, plankton nets, etc. | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Sampling equipment | Various CTD, grabs, dredges, etc. | IOPAN | Piotr Kuklinski | kuki@iopan.pl |
| Sampling equipment | Equipment for sampling at Rothera point | NERC-BAS | Melody Clark | mscl@bas.ac.uk |
| Sampling equipment | Sediment samplers (box corer, Van Veen grab, vibro corer, gravity corer and others) niskin bottles, rosette, dredges, trawls, gill nets, etc. | UG-HMS | Maciej Wolowicz | ocemw@univ.gda.pl |
| Sampling equipment | Sediment samplers (box corer, Van Veen grab, vibro corer, gravity corer and others) niskin bottles, rosette sampler, dredges, trawls, gill nets. | UG-IO | Maciej Wolowicz | ocemw@univ.gda.pl |
| Submersibles | Remote operated vehicle (ROV) and autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) | IOPAN | Piotr Kuklinski | kuki@iopan.pl |
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Biological resources
| Subcategory | description | access provider | liaison officer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biobanks | Sample series from the Aegean and Ionian seas (since 1989), DNA Collections | HCMR-IMBBC | Panagiotis Kasapidis | kasapidi@hcmr.gr |
| Biobanks | > 20000 planktonic samples from world wide & Tara expeditions (Ocean, Med, Polar Circle) | IMEV | Frédéric Bonino | bonino@obs-vlfr.fr |
| Biobanks | Wide range of sample collections from Baltic Sea and European Arctic | IOPAN | Piotr Kuklinski | kuki@iopan.pl |
| Biobanks | Access to SAMS historical collections | SAMS | Christine Campbell | christine.campbell@sams.ac.uk |
| Culture collections | Living strains of microalgae and zooplankton | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Culture collections | Culture collections of microalgae | IMEV | Frédéric Bonino | bonino@obs-vlfr.fr |
| Culture collections | South West UK. 400 species/strains of eukaryotic microalgae; light & temperature controlled rooms; cryopreservation system for marine phytoplankton and prokaryotes | MBA | Paul Lonsdale | paulon@mba.ac.uk |
| Culture collections | Banyuls Bacteria Culture Collection: ca. 2500 living strains of marine bacteria | OOB | Julie Boeuf | julie.boeuf@obs-banyuls.fr |
| Culture collections | Culture collection of algae and protozoa | SAMS | Christine Campbell | christine.campbell@sams.ac.uk |
| Culture collections | Living strains of marine microalgae, bacteria, viruses and macroalgae | SBR | Cécile Cabresin | cecile.cabresin@sb-roscoff.fr |
| Culture collections | SYKE-MRC Collection, Baltic Sea, Plankton | TZS | Joanna Norkko | joanna.norkko@helsinki.fi |
| Culture collections | Baltic Algae Collection (CCBA) available here: https://ccba.ug.edu.pl/pages/en/home.php | UG-IO | Maciej Wolowicz | ocemw@univ.gda.pl |
| Marine model organisms | Provision of sea urchin, sea cucumber, amphipods, Amphyoxus and other organisms | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Marine model organisms | Clytia hemisphaerica (all life stages), Pelagia noctiluca (first stage of life), Phallusia, Ciona, Botryllus, Paracentrotus lividus | IMEV | Frédéric Bonino | bonino@obs-vlfr.fr |
| Marine model organisms | Provision of organisms at various life stages, as Branchiostoma lanceolatum, Phallusia mamillata, Ditrupa arietina, Corallium rubrum, Paracentrotus lividus, Aurelia aurita, Zebrafishes, Amphiprion ocellaris, Pocillopora damicornis, Scyliorhinus canicula, etc. | OOB | Julie Boeuf | julie.boeuf@obs-banyuls.fr |
| Marine model organisms | Provision of Scyliorhinus canicula eggs, Ciona intestinalis, Phallusia mammilata, Paracentrotus lividus, Symsattigifera roscoffensis | SBR | Cécile Cabresin | cecile.cabresin@sb-roscoff.fr |
| Species collected upon request | Collection and supply of local marine flora and fauna from the Southern Galician Rias | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Species collected upon request | Research vessel and inflatable boat for access to the Aegean Sea (Cretan Sea) | HCMR-IMBBC | Panagiotis Kasapidis | kasapidi@hcmr.gr |
| Species collected upon request | Species sampled at Villefranche Bay | IMEV | Frédéric Bonino | bonino@obs-vlfr.fr |
| Species collected upon request | Sampling of macro-fauna and -flora, plankton from Baltic Sea and European Arctic | IOPAN | Piotr Kuklinski | kuki@iopan.pl |
| Species collected upon request | Collection of species in the intertidal and down to 25m subtidal in the Antarctic | NERC-BAS | Melody Clark | mscl@bas.ac.uk |
| Species collected upon request | Species collected in the Banyuls Bay | OOB | Julie Boeuf | julie.boeuf@obs-banyuls.fr |
| Species collected upon request | Delivery and processing of different species | TSL | Martin Sayer | martin.sayer@tritoniascientific.co.uk |
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Experimental facilities
| Subcategory | description | access provider | liaison officer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquaria and tanks | Aquaria and tanks for different experimental sets (aquaculture, biomonitoring, population genetics, disease challenge, ecotoxicology) | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Dry laboratories | Labs adjacent to wet facilities for population genetics studies, and other dry labs | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Dry laboratories | Molecular biology lab, Ecology and taxonomy lab | HCMR-IMBBC | Panagiotis Kasapidis | kasapidi@hcmr.gr |
| Wet laboratories | Wet lab equipped for different experimentation sets (aquaculture, climate change, population genetics, disease challenge, ecotoxicology) | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Mesocosms | Mesocosms for experimental studies of climate change | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
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Technology platforms
| Subcategory | description | access provider | liaison officer | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Imaging | Optical, Fluorescence, Flow cam microscopes. Sample preparation | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Imaging | Micro CT imaging (Skyscan 1172); underwater imaging, optical miroscopy | HCMR-IMBBC | Panagiotis Kasapidis | kasapidi@hcmr.gr |
| Bioassays | Bioassays for biomonitoring and ecotoxicology | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Bioassays | Bioassays for antibacterial and antioxidant capacity | HCMR-IMBBC | Panagiotis Kasapidis | kasapidi@hcmr.gr |
| Molecular biology and omics | Molecular biology lab with equipment for Sanger sequencing (ABI3730), MiSeq-Illumina (library construction and sequencing for amplicons, transcriptomes, ddRAD and small genomes), MinION-Oxford Nanopore (library construction and sequencing) | HCMR-IMBBC | Panagiotis Kasapidis | kasapidi@hcmr.gr |
| Molecular biology and omics | Protein and nucleic acid preparation and analysis: High throughput Q-PCR, associated separation and biochemical facilities, genetic manipulation. Full technical support | MBA | Paul Lonsdale | paulon@mba.ac.uk |
| Structural and chemical analysis | Targeted analysis of biomolecules and metabolites (e.g phyto-pigments, hormones, biotoxins, fatty acids) with LC-MS/MS and GC-MS | HCMR-IMBBC | Panagiotis Kasapidis | kasapidi@hcmr.gr |
| Other technology platforms | Cryopreservation facility | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
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Expert advice
| Subcategory | description | AP | LO | LO email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biological sample identification | Identification of benthic species | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Biological sample identification | Invertebrate taxonomy (polychaetes, amphipods, decapods, sponges, invasive species) | HCMR-IMBBC | Panagiotis Kasapidis | kasapidi@hcmr.gr |
| Biological sample identification | Identification of Baltic and Arctic marine organisms | IOPAN | Piotr Kuklinski | kuki@iopan.pl |
| Experiment design | Expert advice for aquaculture experiments | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
| Experiment design | Expert advice on Mediterranean aquaculture (aquaculture, nutrition, diet formulation, reproduction, pathogens) | HCMR-IMBBC | Panagiotis Kasapidis | kasapidi@hcmr.gr |
| Other expert advice | Compliance with ABS regulations | ECIMAT-UVIGO | Fiz Da Costa | fiz.costa.gonzalez@uvigo.es |
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Supporting facilities
| Subcategory | description | AP | LO | LO email |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Library services | Literature related to Baltic and Arctic ecosystems | IOPAN | Piotr Kuklinski | kuki@iopan.pl |
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