Equipment

Tools for an ecological and evolutionary approach
LyonTech-La Doua (Villeurbanne)

Tools for a mecanistic approach
BioDistrict Lyon-Gerland
(Lyon 7)

Tools for a veterinary approach
(wildlife & livestock)
VetAgro Sup campus (Marcy l’Etoile)

DTAMB platform

High-throughput automated molecular diagnostic of infectious samples from extraction to qPCR (tissues, blood, feces, plants, whole arthropods…) in BSL2 & BSL3 confined facilities.
* qPCR machines
* Pipeting robots
* DNA/RNA extraction robots

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Symbiotron platform

Thunder 3D live Imager | High resolution images of living processes in BSL3 confined conditions.

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SFR BioSciences / CIRI – BSL3 platforms

Insectariums in BSL3 conditions | Climatic chambers, incubators, centrifuges, ultra-centrifuges, …).

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In vivo & in toto live imaging systems to visualize pathological factors in BSL3 conditions.

High throughput live-cell imaging for time-lapse analysis of viral/bacterial infections.

Booking will be soon available

SFR BioSciences AniRA-PBES platform

Gnotobiotic boxes for wild animals | Study of host microbiota in rodents and arthropods: gnotobiotic cages, biosecurity hoods, isoflurane anesthesia equipment, …

Booking will be soon available

ENS Cryo-EM platform in BSL2/BLS3 confined conditions

* Structural information on isolated macromolecular complexes
* Study of host-pathogen interactions in 3D & at the nanometer scale
* Study of dynamic processes in combination with light microscopy

Booking will be available in 2024

EVAAS Cluster

BSL3 autopsy facility | First step in the diagnostic chain in wildlife epidemiology, this facility will enable anatomopathology and histopathology examinations of whole animals or samples.

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Claude Bourgelat Institute facility

Wild bat rearing facility | Characterization of host-pathogen interactions (physiology, immunity) in bats, reservoirs of emerging diseases. This bat rearing facility will constitute a specific model unique in France and rare in Europe.

Booking will be available in 2024

RS2GP platform

Connected Rodentodrome | Automated wild rodent rearing & monitoring facility. This unique equipement in Europe houses wild rats, voles and mice in semi-liberty conditions to monitor ecology, behavior, population dynamics and pathophysiology of species of interest.

Booking will be available in 2024

The above-mentioned facilities are part of the following four platform federations in Lyon: