Advanced Light Microscopy - Screening Center

Overview

Our scientific platform makes available to the scientific community a total solution for high content analysis (HCA) and high content screening (HCS) in basic and applied research. Providing the technology, laboratory facilities, analysis software, assay development and validation required by project teams to successfully run medium-to-high throughput screens. 

 

Resources

​IN Cell Analyzer 2000 (GE Healthcare)

  • Imaging on glass slides to 1536-well plates
  • From organelles to cells to tissues to all organisms
  • Fixed end-point assays or live-cell studies (temperature and CO2 control)
  • Compound adding on the fly

Liquidator 96 (Metler-Toledo)
  • Fast and easy pipetting like in a manual pipette
  • Plate and mother/daughter replications
  • Refformating from 96- to 384- well and back
  • Washing and dilution steps
  • Dispensing PCR buffers and preparing master mixes
  • ELISA and other enzyme-based assays

MultidropTM Combi Reagent Dispenser (Thermo-Scientific)
  • Bulk reagents dispensing
  • From 6- to 1536-well plates
  • High speed and high precision
  • From 0.5 to 2500 ul
  • From reagents to cells to whole organisms

 

Services and fees

The Screening Center has an open-access policy and the resources are available to the scientific community and industry.

Please contact the ALM team for details.

 


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