• Administrative Unit
Academic (exclusively). (USAL service)
Accounting and Research. (CSIC service)

• Main facilities
Animal facilities. (USAL service)
Basic Molecular biology support service. (CSIC service)
DNA automatic-sequencing. (USAL service)
Equipment maintenance and repair. (CSIC service)
Labware and common reagents supply facility (CSIC/USAL service)
Library (Journals) (USAL service) and access to “on line” journal (CSIC and USAL service)
On campus computer Network (USAL) + IMB Intranet including Micro informatics service (CSIC service)
Photography and automatic autoradiography unit handling service (CSIC service)
Radioactive facility and service (CSIC service)
Store supply service (CSIC service)
Tissue culture facilities and service (CSIC and USAL service)

• Equipments
Cell-free extracts producing systems (mechanical, high pressure, etc.)
Centrifugation and ultracentrifugation
Chromatography and electrophoresis
Deep-freezers and automatic cryogenic storage system
Flow cytometer
Fluorescence microscopy, with image digital capture, including confocal microscope service
Growth culture units
Phosphorimager and liquid scintillation counter (beta)
Real time quantitative PCR
Ultrapure water filtration systems
Yeast micromanipulation equipments

• Main academic activities
Guest Seminars (CSIC service)
Graduate courses (Microbiology) at the Schools of Biology, Biochemistry and Chemical Engineering.
Participation on the Ph.D. program at the Department of Microbiology and Genetics.

The scientific equipment of the IMB was mainly financed by the CICYT Infrastructure Program (Department of Education and Science, Spain) and by the EU (FEDER funds) through the CSIC.