RESEARCH

Core facilities

All the necessary tools for research projects in life sciences.

  • Technological platforms, analytical instruments and laboratory products
  • Providing high-quality specialist services supervised by scientists and managed by specialized technicians
  • With most reliable techniques and cutting-edge, state-of-the-art equipments

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Bioimaging

Photonic microscopy for the observation and the analysis of live or fixed cells and tissues

  • Academic directors: Dr Bernhard Wehrle-Haller
  • Contact persons: François Prodon, Sergei Startchik, Olivier Brun, Nicolas Liaudet

Tel: 022 379 52 66
bioimaging(at)unige.ch
françois.prodon(at)unige.ch
Nicolas.Liaudet(at)unige.ch


https://www.unige.ch/medecine/bioimaging


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BioInformatics

Supports and assistance in data analysis

  • Academic director: Pr Martine Collart
  • Contact person: Dr Julien Prados

Tel: 022 379 56 63
julien.prados(at)unige.ch
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/bioinformatics


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Biomedical imaging (CIBM)

Center for biomedical imaging (UNIGE, UNIL, EPFL, CHUV, HUG) Geneva modules

  • Academic director: Pr Christoph Michel
  • Contact person: Dr François Lazeyras

Tel: 079 553 2442
francois.lazeyras(at)unige.ch
http://www.unige.ch/medecine/cibm


BioStock

Sale of biological, chemical and plastic laboratory supplies at preferential prices

  • Academic director: Pr Nicolas Demaurex
  • Contact person: Dominique Ducrest-Gay

Tel: 022 379 50 44 / 47
biostock-medecine(at)unige.ch
dominique.ducrest-gay(at)unige.ch
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/biostock


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Biosafety level 3 Laboratory

  • Academic Director: Pr. Caroline Tapparel Vu
  • Academic Co-Director: Pr. Mirco Schmolke
  • Contact person: Dr. Sophie Clément-Leboube

Sophie.Clement(at)unige.ch

www.unige.ch/medecine/bsl3

CRC

CRC

Center for Clinical Research of the Faculty of Medicine and the HUG

  • Academic director: Pr Jérôme Pugin
  • Contact person: Corinne Chaudet

Tel: 022 372 98 08 Monday / Thursday, 022 372 91 34 Tuesday / Friday
corinne.chaudet(at)hcuge.ch
http://crc.hug.ch


PFMU

Electron Microscopy (PFMU)

Analysis of cells/tissues at the ultrastructural level by transmission electron microscopy

  • Scientific and Academic director: Pr Michelangelo Foti

Tel: 022 379 53 05
michelangelo.foti(at)unige.ch
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/pfmu


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Flow cytometry

Flow cytometry service

  • Academic director: Pr Stéphanie Hugues
  • Contact persons: Cécile Gameiro, Lan Tran et Grégory Schneiter

Tel: 022 379 51 87

flowcytometry(at)unige.ch
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/cytometrie/


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Genomics

Advice and access to the state-of-the-art methods in genomic technologies (Ultra High Throughtput Sequencing, DNA microarrays for transcriptomic and genotyping studies, nCounter, Real-time PCR)

  • Academic directors: Pr Guillaume Andrey
  • Contact persons: Mylène Docquier

Tel: +4122 379 50 31

mylene.docquier(at)unige.ch

https://www.unige.ch/ige3-genomics/


histologie

Histology

Dehydration, embedding, sectioning (cryostat, paraffin) and staining of specimens for light microscopy

  • Academic director: Pr Pierre Cosson
  • Contact persons: Marie Ebrahim Malek, Laura de Luca, Priscilla Soulié

Tel: 022 379 52 96
histologie-medecine(at)unige.ch
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/histologie/


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HUMANAFLY

Modeling human diseases in Drosophila

  • Academic Director: Pr Vladimir Katanaev
  • Contact Person: Dr Mikhail Savitskiy

Tel: 022 379 58 26
Mikhail.Savitskiy(at)unige.ch
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/humanafly


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SMALL ANIMAL PRECLINICAL IMAGING PLATFORM (PIPPA)

(Formerly Institute of Translational Molecular Imaging, ITMI)

Anatomical and fonctionnal phenotyping of small animal through non invasive in vivo imaging

  • Academic Director: Pr Éric Allémann
  • Contact Person: Dr Didier J. Colin

Tel. 022 372 40 64
didier.colin(at)unige.ch

https://www.unige.ch/medecine/pippa

 


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Murine behaviour

Behavioural studies on mice

  • Academic director: Pr Christian Lüscher
  • Contact person: Dr Vincent Pascoli

Tel: 022.379.47.31 or 079.301.45.40
Vincent.Pascoli(at)unige.ch
http://www.medecine.unige.ch/comportement


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Phenotyping of small animals

Phenotyping of small animals through physiological and metabolic analyses
Clamp glucose / insulin

  • Academic co-directors: Prof. Roberto Coppari
  • Contact persons: Dr Franck Bontems
  • Contact persons for clamp glucose / insulin: Dr Christelle Veyrat-Durebex

Tel: 022 379 52 16
Christelle.Veyrat-Durebex(at)unige.ch
Franck.Bontems(at)unige.ch
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/phenotypage/en


 

PROTEINS, PEPTIDES & RNA TO PROTEINS (PPR2P)

PPR2P Core Facility joins together three research platforms responsible for production and characterization of proteins and peptides and gene expression analysis from RNA to proteins.

  • Academic director: Pr Oliver Hartley
  • Contact persons: Oscar Vadas, Olesya Panasenko, Marianne Paolini-Bertrand, Rémy Visentin
 

Proteins platform
Oscar Vadas
Tel: 022 379 57 71
oscar.vadas(at)unige.ch
www.unige.ch/medecine/ppr2p-platforms/proteins

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Peptides platform
Oliver Hartley
Tel: 022 379 54 75
oliver.hartley(at)unige.ch
www.unige.ch/medecine/ppr2p-platforms/peptides 

 

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BioCode: RNA to proteins (R2P) platform 
Olesya Panasenko
Tel: 022 379 56 51
olesya.panasenko(at)unige.ch
www.unige.ch/medecine/ppr2p-platforms/R2P 

 

 


proteomique

Proteomics

Analysis of protein samples

  • Academic director: Pr Mathieu Brochet
  • Contact persons: Patrizia Arboit, Carla Pasquarello Mosimann, Umut Oguz

Tel: 022 379 59 28
protplat-medecine(at)unige.ch, Carla.PasquarelloMosimann(at)unige.ch
http://www.medecine.unige.ch/proteomics


LAVIM

Radiology imaging (LAVIM)

Acquisition, archiving and analysis of radiological images.

  • Academic director: Pr Jean-Paul Vallée
  • Contact persons: Christian Girard

Tel: 022 372 62 66
christian.girard(at)hcuge.ch
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/lavim/


 

R3

Under the responsibility of Prof. Pierre Cosson, the R3 Plateform joins together three research tools that fit, in the broad sense, within the framework of the 3R policy (Replace, Reduce, Refine), on animal testing :
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R.E.A.D.S Unit: Readers, Assay development and screening unit

Tel: 022 379 41 36
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/reads

anticorps

Recombinant antibodies: Developpement and production of recombinant antibodies

Tel: 022 379 52 95
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/anticorps

zebrafishWeb

ZebRafish Core Facility: Access to the zebrafish model for local research groups

  • Academic director: Pr Nicolas Demaurex
  • Contact person: Richard Fish

Tel: 022 379 52 78
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/zebrafish


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Transgenesis

Generation, cryopreservation and revitalization of transgenic mice

  • Academic director: Pr Pedro Herrera
  • Contact person: Dr Fabrizio Thorel

Tel: 022 379 55 91
Fabrizio.Thorel(at)unige.ch
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/transgenese/


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vectorlab

Core facility for viral vectors

  • Academic director: Pr. Karl-Heinz Krause
  • Contact persons: Dr Patrick Salmon

Tél: 022 379 56 70
Patrick.Salmon(at)unige.ch
https://www.unige.ch/medecine/vectorlab/


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zootechnie

Breeding and care of laboratory animals

  • Academic director: Doron Merkler
  • Contact person: Pierre Bonnaventure

Tel: 022 379 00 87, 079 604 02 34
pierre.bonnaventure(at)unige.ch
http://www.medecine.unige.ch/zootechnie

P2: Care of experimental animals with class 2 biological agents

  • Academic director and contact: Doron Merkler

Doron.Merkler(at)unige.ch