They consist of biological platforms for conduct of molecular and cellular biology as well as immunology and high security laboratory for the manipulation of pathogenic agents in tissues, insects or animals. Several equipments described below have been acquired to upgrade both research and diagnostic activities.
Biosafety laboratory with level of containment 3 (BSL3)
The BSL3 (50 m²) is composed of 3 modules including laboratory, insectarium and animal facilities. It can be used for manipulating diagnostic samples that can contain Influenza viruses, West Nile virus or other zoonotic agents. It is also adapted for virus isolation and studies on host-vector-pathogen interactions, including vector competence studies, especially in the Insectarium I3 and Animal facility A3.
This equipment has been acquired with EU funds from ERDF funds and is used within the frame of the Epigenesis project to process a high number of samples (96) simultaneously in less than one hour and a hald with high accuracy and with a sensitivity similar to manual RNA and DNA extraction. This automate has been settled in the BSL 3 lab.
The new Personal Genome Machine (PGM™) technology with natural biochemistry to directly translate chemical information into digital data. Direct, real time sequencing detection provides sequencing results typically in less than 3 hours. This new technology provides an unprecedented capacity to make comparative genomics (for DNA and RNA genomes) and also transcriptomics (RNAseq).
