CELL CULTURE FACILITY

This core facility makes available a very large panel of cell culture models and up- to-date technologies to academic researchers and industrials that.

INFRASTRUCTURE OF CELL CULTURE FACILITY

• The facility has been open since 2011 and is mainly located in the central part of the building, on 2 floors (500 m2).
• The facility is in a L2 confinement utilized by 200 regular users
• 18 fully equipped culture boxes, 2 dark rooms for imaging operations, 2 shared spaces for small equipment/consumables as well as 2 large dissection rooms.
• Outside the L2 confinement, a biochemistry room

SERVICES FOR CELL CULTURE OPERATIONS

• Delivering full services in cell culture.
• Providing training on equipment and scientific/technical assistance on demand.
• Provision of fully equipped culture box.
• Delivering consumables and essential reagents, at cost price.

ACTIVITIES

• Modeling brain, spinal cord and skeletal muscle disorders with cell or tissue culture systems
• Drug screening for neuronal and glial pathologies, including glioma tumors
• Molecular and cellular pharmacology
• Conventional or automated fluorescent imaging
• Infrared fluorescence imaging
• Conventional ELISA and electrochemiluminescence immunoassay

EQUIPMENT

• 18 individual boxes for cell culture including a safety cabinet to radioactive experimentations.
• 2 shared spaces for small equipment and consumables
• 2 large dissection rooms.
• Biochemistry room with 1 Odyssey (Infrared imaging 2 color/Western blot) an 1 Chemidoc Touch (Imager for Chemiluminescence/Western blot)