Core facilities

All the necessary tools for research projects in life sciences: technological platforms, analytical instruments and laboratory products that provides high-quality specialist services supervised by scientists and managed by specialized technicians. These tools are also available, under certain conditions, to researchers outside the UNIGE or the HUG.

	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

	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

	Biomedical imaging (CIBM) Centre 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 Maud Frieden 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

	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 Clinical Research Centre of the Faculty of Medicine and the HUG Academic director: Pr Alexandra Calmy Execitive associate: Isabelle Semac Contact person: Corinne Chaudet Tel: 022 372 98 08 Monday / Thursday, 022 372 91 34 Tuesday / Friday corinne.chaudet(at)hug.ch http://crc.hug.ch

	Electron Microscopy (PFMU) Analysis of cells/tissues at the ultrastructural level by transmission electron microscopy Scientific and Academic director: Pr Perrine Castets Tel: 022 379 53 05 pfmu(at)unige.ch https://www.unige.ch/medecine/pfmu

	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/

	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/

	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/

	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

	Small animal preclinical imageing (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


	Laboratory of Perioperative Experimental Physiology (Labo PEP) Support techniques, anesthesia, and surgery in rodents and large animals Academic director: Pre Nadia Elia Contact person: Dr Fabienne Fontao Tel. +41 22 379 51 66 pep-lab(at)unige.ch https://www.unige.ch/medecine/pep

	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

	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

	Peptides Custom production of peptides and small proteins by total chemical synthesis Academic director: Prof. Oliver Hartley Contact person: Prof. Oliver Hartley Tel: 022 379 54 75 oliver.hartley(at)unige.ch http://www.unige.ch/medecine/peptides

	Protein Biochemistry Platform Recombinant protein expression and purification / Analysis of protein dynamics by Hydrogen/Deuterium exchange coupled to Mass Spectrometry (HDX-MS) Academic director: Prof. Miriam Stoeber Contact person: Oscar Vadas Tel: 022 379 56 71 oscar.vadas(at)unige.ch http://www.unige.ch/medecine/proteins

	BioCode: RNA to proteins (R2P) Analyzes gene expression from mRNA to proteins Academic director: Prof. Charna Dibner Contact person: Dr. Olesya Panasenko Tel: +41 22 379 54 84 olesya.panasenko(at)unige.ch https://www.unige.ch/medecine/r2p

	Proteomics Mass spectrometry-based Proteomics Academic director: Pr Mathieu Brochet Contact persons: Alexandre Hainard Tel: 022 379 51 40 (Labo), 022 379 41 29 (A. Hainard) proteomics(at)unige.ch, Alexandre.Hainard(at)unige.ch http://www.medecine.unige.ch/proteomics
	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 :
	R.E.A.D.S Unit: Readers, Assay development and screening unit Academic director: Prof. Nicolas Demaurex Contact persons: Vincent Jaquet,Yves Alexandre Cambet Tel: 022 379 41 36 https://www.unige.ch/medecine/reads
	Recombinant antibodies: Developpement and production of recombinant antibodies Academic director: Prof. Pierre Cosson Contact person: Philippe Hammel Tel: 022 379 52 95 https://www.unige.ch/medecine/anticorps
	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

	TEO BSL2 for tissue engineering and organoids Academic directors: Profs. Marie Cohen, Ekaterine Berishvili, Jean Villard and Olivier Michielin Contact: Marisa Jaconi Tél: 022 379 52 57 / 076 580 4117 TEO-booking(at)unige.ch marisa.jaconi(at)unige.ch https://www.unige.ch/medecine/teo/

	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/

	Zootechnics 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 Website P2: Care of experimental animals with class 2 biological agents Academic director and contact: Doron Merkler Doron.Merkler(at)unige.ch

Core facilities

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