The CEMIPAI platform houses a 232 m2 enclosed laboratory facility of biosafety level 3 (BSL-3). All procedures involving infectious material are done within dedicated biological safety cabinets installed in a total of 8 individual boxes
Biosafety Cabinets
6 boxes of the BSL3 facilities are dedicated to either viruses or bacterias and contain state-of-the-art equipment, including:
- 16 Biological Safety Cabinets
- Shaked, CO2, tri-gaz incubators
- 4°C refrigerators, -20°C, -80°C and -150°C freezers
- Small and medium capacity centrifuges
- 2 ultracentrifuges
Optima L80 XP BioSafe (BECKMAN COULTER)
Optima Max XP BioSafe (BECKMAN COULTER)
- Optical microscopes
AMF-4302 EVOS® digital inverted microscope (Fluorescence)
AMF-4300 EVOS® digital inverted microscope (Fluorescence)
AMF-4304 EVOS® digital inverted microscope (Fluorescence)
- AMEX 1100 EVOS® Core XL digital inverted microscope (Bright Field & phase contrast)




Flow Cytometry
A box equipped with a NovoCyte Flow Cytometer 2100Y installed in a Biological Safety Cabinet.
- 2 lasers (blue 488nm and yellow 561nm), which can be upgraded with a red or violet laser.
- 10 fluorescence parameters
- Absolute counting, without addition of counting beads
- Sample tube/plate holder (24 tube rack or 24-48-96 well plates)
- NovoExpress Software is enable to analyze cell cycle with Watson’s method (Cytometry 2001 ;43:55-68)

Automated Screening Platform
Our BSL3 is equipped with a workstation specifically designed for automated drug screening on cell-based assays
- A Zephyr multichannel liquid handler with 96-and 384-well capabilities for performing accurately and efficiently plate preparation, replication or reformatting, serial dilutions and cell based assays.
- A Biotek plate washer.
- An Envision Multilabel reader (Perkin Elmer). This fast and effective reader can accommodate a wide range of mirror modules and filters for a variety of detection approaches based on fluorescence, luminescence and absorbance.
- A Twister II Microplate Handler with multiple instrument capability, integral plate and tip storage capacity.
- A microplate incubator LiCONiC STX44 (2 racks for a capacity of 44 microplates)
The workstation is supported by iLinkPro, a robust and easy to use control software that connects all the instruments to set up a fully automated assay system.



