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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Address:
Rue Vautier 29, Bruxelles, PO: 1000 (Belgium)
Location
Rue Vautier 29, Bruxelles, PO: 1000 (Belgium)
Structure
Type Of RI
Single-sited
Coordinating Country
Belgium
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational
Scientific Description
The Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences is a Belgian Federal State institution. It is involved in important scientific research activities and carries out public service missions. With 37 million specimens conserved as Belgian Heritage of universal significance, the RBINS collections serve as reference and research tools. Its main scientific research areas concern the biodiversity and mechanisms involved in the evolution of Life; land, freshwater and marine ecosystems; the history of life; the geology of Belgium and modelling of the North Sea. It's Museum offers 16 000m2 of galleries, exhibitions and educational workshops.

RI Keywords
Focal point, Geology, Taxonomy, Research, Molecular, Specimens, Entomology, Species, DNA, Palaeontology, Collaboration, Infrastructure, Monitoring, Evolution, Biodiversity, Excellence, Marine, Laboratories, Services, Expertise, Collections and archives, Fresh water, Biology, Mammals, Ocean
Classifications
RI Category
Earth, Ocean, Marine, Freshwater, and Atmosphere Data Centres
Earth Observation satellites
Reference material repositories
Research Data Service Facilities
Research Bibliographies
Natural History Collections
Environmental Management Infrastructures
Data Archives, Data Repositories and Collections
Collections
Databases
Scientific Domain
Earth and Environmental Sciences
ESFRI Domain
Environment
Services
Zoological collection

RBINS houses an exceptionally rich zoological collection with a total of 37,000,000 specimens with around 100,000 primary types.

Molecular systematic facility

The molecular systematic facility provides a dynamic working environment for researchers who aim at applying various DNA markers for molecular systematic research.

Geological Survey of Belgium

Geological Survey of Belgium.

Operational Directorate (OD) ‘Earth and History of Life’

Micropalaeontology and Palaeobotany; Invertebrate Palaeontology, Vertebrate Palaeontology, Anthropology and Prehistory, General Geology and Mineralogy, Applied geology and geo-information.

Natural Environment Directorate

Consists in: the Management Unit of the North Sea Mathematical Model (MUMM); RBINS/DGD program on Biodiversity and capacity building for development; National Focal Point to the Convention on BioDiversity CBD; Belgian Biodiversity Platform; biological evaluation; freshwater biology.

Scientific library

RBINS scientific library is one of the biggest documentary resources of Natural History in Belgium. It offers 695,368 volumes.

Equipment
Collections scanning

A suite of equipment is available for scanning collections objects.The data and references are recorded in a common management tool developed by the RBINS ICT service.

Molecular Systematic Facility

The Molecular Systematic Facility provides a dynamic working environment for researchers who aim at applying various DNA markers for molecular systematic research. Practical training in DNA analysis is provided within the context of collaborative research projects. It is equipped with an ABI 3130 capillary sequencer. This infrastructure allows for a wide variety of DNA marker analyses, though most applications involve nucleotide sequencing and microsatellite genotyping.

Collaborations
Networks
SeaDataNet
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission/International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IOC/IODE)
GBIF Nodes Network
Eurofleets (FP7)
LifeWatch
CETAF - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities
SciColl - Scientific Collections International
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES)
Consortium for the Barcode of Life
Date of last update: 25/03/2017
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