Interdisciplinary access call to Structural biology, Biological imaging and Proteomics facilities
The three national infrastructures ProFi, FranceBioImaging and FRISBI along with the GIS IBiSA are pleased to announce a third call for a funded access to IBiSA-labelled facilities. Our aim is to promote IBiSA facilities networking through transdisciplinary research projects.
Applications should request access to at least two different IBiSA facilities from two disciplines (structural biology, Biological imaging and proteomics, see below a non-exhaustive list). The call is open to any academic laboratory.
Examples of typical project types: (i) access to intact mass spectrometry, biophysics and sophisticated and innovative imaging for a large multiprotein complex/assembly; (ii) access to super resolution microscopy and CryoEM facilities for membrane proteins; (iii) cartography of IDP interactions with a complex using NMR, structural or interactomics mass spectrometry and fluorescent microscopy.
The project should be seen as a starter for a larger project or as a proof-of-concept investigation.
The amount of the financial support will be up to 5000 € per application to cover facility costs, travel and accommodation costs are not eligible. In cases where the access costs are in excess of the support available, the user may be asked to cover the extra costs from grants or other means. The funded project should be performed within 12 months after notification and a short user report will be requested.
The GIS-IBiSA support and the ANR support to the appropriate infrastructures must be acknowledged for all research publication resulting from this funded access call using the sentence provided by the facilities used. Additionally, IBiSA and/or individual infrastructure may wish to communicate on these user visits for publicity-purposes and acceptance of an award implies a willingness to participate in this communication.
Applications should be submitted to Call-IBISA-FBI-FRISBI-PROFI@i2bc.paris-saclay.fr using the template document linked here
The deadline for this inter-infrastructure access call is 13 February 2026. All submitted proposals will be peer-reviewed by independent experts and the final funding will be approved by a committee comprising 2 representatives from each infrastructure as well as representatives from GIS IBISA. We advise the project PI to contact the chosen facilities in order to set-up the optimal experimental design. Projects selected during the 2024 call are not eligible.