Cytometry, Sort & Transmission Electronic Microscopy (CYSTEM)
About us
The Cytometry, Sort & Transmission Electronic Microscopy platform (CYSTEM) is an integral part of the LMGE (http://www.lmge.univ-bpclermont.fr/) of Clermont Auvergne University. The objective of this platform is to give access to microbiologists, health personnel or environmentalists to a powerful instrumental park allowing structural and functional analyzes of biological entities. It covers complementary approaches of enumeration, isolation, purification in cytometry as well as a fine ultra-structural analysis in electron microscopy. In this context the cytometry platform offers the possibility of an autonomous or framed use of analytical cytometers and / or sorters and a transmission electron microscope (see instrumentation). The scientific and technical responsibilities of the platform are provided by LMGE staff (Jonathan Colombet, IE, Hemine Billard, technician) guaranteeing an optimal state of functioning and the provision of technical and scientific expertise.
Our services
The platform provides its staff for the delivery of services (quantification, analysis, sorting, characterization). Free access, subject to notifying platform managers and prior essential training (at least with platform staff) is only possible for the FACS Calibur cytometer and LSR Fortessa X-20.
The use of the FACS ARIA analyzer-sorter cytometer or the transmission electron microscope is only possible under the supervision of the personnel of the platform and in the access schedules defined with it.
The flow cytometry platform offers a fee schedule adapted to each device. The rates of the various services performed are heard for one hour of use of the device. These rates are set each year to amortize maintenance costs. Rates are available from the technical staff of the platform.
Contacts
Scientific & technical experts
Access to the service
The LMGE cytometry platform is installed in the premises of the Microorganisms Laboratory: Genomes and Environments (LMGE), on the ground floor of the building.
Those wishing to use the platform should contact and make an appointment with the platform staff.
Address
LMGE-Clermont Auvergne University
University Campus of Cézeaux, 1 Impasse Amélie Murat,
TSA 60026, CS 60026
63178 AUBIERE Cedex, France