Technology

Unlike a standard microscopy service where most of the activity is devoted to user training and equipment maintenance, our microscopy facility had operated in two different ways: through long-term scientific collaborations (several years) with a limited number of teams, and as a core facility providing assistance and trainings to all teams in the lab and outside the lab. Indeed, thanks to the small number and homogeneity of devices (2 video microscopes of the same brand), the very good technical level of the PhD students and post-docs hired in the laboratory and the self-training within the teams, I was able to devote 90% of our activity to the development of analytical techniques and scientific collaborations.

The team operates in two complementary modes: assistance, training and support for certain devices under our responsibility, and long-term scientific collaborations with other teams for innovative instrumentation and analysis solutions. The collaborations are carried by one of the members according to the required expertise and the concerned field:

• Microscopy and Image Analysis by Léon Espinosa (Bansept group),
• Data and image analysis, Deep Learning, mathematical modeling by Swapnesh Panigrahi (Ansaldi group),
• Automation and screening by Jean-Raphael Fantino,
• Cytometry and biochemical methods by Gael Brasseur,
• IT, Microelectronics and 3D printing by Philippe Notareschi,
• Genomics and Transcriptomics by Romain Mercier (Mignot Team), Nicolas Ginet (Ansaldi Team) et Lionel Bertaux.
• Microfluidics with Nicolas Waisbord (Wu Team) and Pierre Bohec (Centuri)