Vladimir Benes
HEAD OF GENOMICS CORE FACILITY AT EMBL-HEIDELBERG,
Haematology
Blood Genetics
Spain
Biography
Dr. Vladimír Beneš is Head of GeneCore facility at the prestigious institute European Molecular Biology Laboratorium (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany. He has been at EMBL since 1994 when he came as postdoc to Ansorge group in the Biochemical Instrumentation Unit. In 2001 he was appointed to build EMBL Genomics Core Facility, a technology orientated service laboratory founded to assist researchers with functional genomics projects. This facility is currently utilizing mainly massively parallel sequencing & microarray technologies as well as qPCR. Among Vladimir’s tasks belong also assessment of new technologies and functional genomics applications, in particular their suitability for implementation in the environment of core facilities. He is also strongly involved in teaching of methods applied in this field.
Research Interest
Gene, Molecular Biolog, Biochemical Instrumentation Unit, Genomics
