Main techniques used

  • Cell culture (mammals, insects, yeasts, bacterias)
  • Flow cytometry, immunolabelling, cell cycle, calcium flow, cell viability, apoptose…
  • Confocal microscopy, spectral imaging, static and dynamic videomicroscopy
  • Endocytosis and intracellular traffic, membrane permeabilization induiced by par des fusiogenic peptides
  • Cell transfection (DNA, mRNA, oligonucleotides)
  • Bioluminescence : mesure of luciferase expression
  • Molecular biology (cloning, plasmids construction, plasmids and messenger RNA preparation), Northern blot, PCR and real time quantitative PCR, in-situ fluorescence hybridization
  • Hypoxia and its control
  • Ultraviolet irradiation (UVA, UVB, UVA+UVB)
  • Expression and purification of recombinant proteins (mammalian cells, insects, yeasts, bacterias)
  • Mutagenesis
  • Biochemistry : protein purification, SDS-PAGE gels, Western-blot, immunoprecipitations.
  • Purification and characterisation of proteins et glycoproteines
  • Chemoenzymatic glycosylations (oligosaccharides, glycopeptides and glycoproteins synthesis)
  • Glycans analysis
  • Genetic of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
  • Protein-protein interactions , study by : double-hybrid, co-purification, co-immunoprecipitation, Surface Plasmon Resonance, TAP-tag.
  • Microinjection
  • Fluorescence spectroscopy
  • Liposomes préparation
  • Synthesis of polymers
  • Size and zeta potential of nucleic acids / synthetic vectors complexes