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

	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) 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

	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 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

	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

	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 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

	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

	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 :
	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

	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/

	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/

	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

Core facilities

Biosafety level 3 Laboratory

(Formerly Institute of Translational Molecular Imaging, ITMI)

R3

R³