Behavioral Core Facility
The Behavioral Core Facility is a platform where you can have access to many behavioral test equipments and a P2 surgery room with steroetaxic apparatus.
Its goal is to help users from experimental design and acquisition, to data processing (treatment and quantification). In addition to the maintenance of the resources of the platform, the facilty is building new behavioral tasks for mice and updating surgery procedures and material.
This platform is located within the Faculty of Medecine, Building C of the Centre Médical Universitaire (CMU)
Thematics
Equipment
Behavior
- Videotracking system adapted for various maze
- Data acquisition with EthoVision
- Operant boxes MedAssociate
Surgery
- 3 Stereotaxic apparatus Stoelting with vapor
- anesthesia
- 2 for viral injections
Services
- Training and advice for surgery and mouse behavior systems, advice on experimental design.
- Training for the use of the videotracking system and for EthoVision software.
- Expertise in MedPC Software and MedAssociate devices for mouse operant behaviors.
- Advice for virus selection and training for P2 users
Address
Centre Médical Universitaire (CMU)
1 rue Michel-Servet
1211 Genève 4