Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3)
Equipment
The biosafety level 3 (BSL-3) core contains eight culture rooms dedicated to different research programs, one shared cryopreservation and storage room and a cytometry room for performing sorting on infected cell populations.
Each of the rooms is equipped with two biological safety cabinets, incubators, tabletop centrifuges, a refrigerator and freezers (4 °C and/or -20 °C), as well as a work space. An ultracentrifuge and -80 °C freezers are also available.
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List of equipment
- 1 BD FACSAria Fusion cytofluorometer: cell sorting and analysis device built into a biological safety cabinet (5 lasers, 21 parameters, 18 colours)
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- 18 class ll, A2 and B2 biological safety cabinets
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- 1 Luminex Multiplex Assays instrument
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- 1 BD BACTEC™ MGIT™ 320 mycobacterial detection system, 320-tube capacity
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- Several refrigerators, freezers and deep freezers for storage
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- 1 ultracentrifuge
- 2 interlocked, double-door sterilizers (autoclaves)
Our culture rooms
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