NARC-Norwegian Arabidopsis Research Center

NARC - NTNU

NARC - UiO

NARC - UMB

The Norwegian Arabidopsis Research centre is one of the 10 national technology platforms funded through the Functional Genomics (FUGE) initiative of the Norwegian Research Council and will offer Norwegian plant scientists resources and technology in the Arabidopsis thaliana model system. NARC will establish a solid base for fundamental and applied plant science in Norway. The partners of the centre will provide the basic technologies needed to utilize the powerful tools of functional genomics and thereby to promote the quality of plant science in Norway. NARC is built on existing competence in Arabidopsis research in Norway, and is a collaboration between Arabidopsis researchers at three institutions:

Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
University of Oslo (UiO)
Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)

NARC collaborates with other FUGE resource centres e.g. The Norwegian Micro Array Consortium, imaging and proteomics facilities and bioinformatics expertise centres. By taking advantage of the tools already available, gene function and interaction of gene products can be studied in great detail.

The platform offer services to the Norwegian plant science community such as provision of clones for micro arrays, transformation, gene expression studies and protein-protein interactions. The establishment of service centres will results in more efficient use of resources and equipment available in the Norwegian plant science community. NARC will also arrange workshops and meetings in order to maintain an effective collaboration and contact between scientists. In addition, tools for fundamental Arabidopsis research will be improved and further developed for the specific needs of the users.

Information about NARC services can be found on local web pages at each institution.