Technical resources
The UR7300 ‘SIMPA’ unit has all the equipment required to conduct its research, such as :
- A cell culture room with hoods, incubator, microscope...
- A room dedicated to RNA extraction
- A clean room, safety cabinets and incubators for microbiological studies
- Rooms for electrophoresis of proteins and nucleic acids
- Behavior room with rotorod, elevated plus Maze, Morris water maze, open field...
- Gel Doc & Fusion FX7 imagers, Luminex, Bioruptor, Nucleofector, NanoDrop spectrophotometer, conventional and real time thermal cyclers, -80°C freezers, microplate readers, epifluorescence microscope…
- The GEPAM plateform, part of ESA ground-based facilities portfolio, which allows exposing animals (embryos/tadpoles of four amphibian species (X. laevis, X. tropicalis, A. mexicanum, P. waltl) or mice) to altered gravity.