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.
Visit the cytometry core facility section
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)
![Cytofluoromètre FACSAria Fusion de BD](/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg/public/2023-07/cytom%C3%A9trie%20-%20Gael%20Dulude-3939m-crop.jpg?itok=l_osKtRi)
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- 18 class ll, A2 and B2 biological safety cabinets
![Plateforme NC3](/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg/public/2023-01/NC3%20-%20Olfa%20Debbeche-3920m.jpg?itok=zTBurHNB)
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- 1 Luminex Multiplex Assays instrument
![Luminex Magpix](/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg/public/2023-07/NC3%20-%20Olfa%20Debbeche-7386m.jpg?itok=1S5dRzyW)
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- 1 BD BACTEC™ MGIT™ 320 mycobacterial detection system, 320-tube capacity
![BACTEC™ MGIT™ 320 de BD](/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg/public/2023-07/NC3%20-%20Olfa%20Debbeche-7335m.jpg?itok=hsM44JmV)
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- Several refrigerators, freezers and deep freezers for storage
![Congélateur](/sites/default/files/styles/wysiwyg/public/2023-07/NC3%20-%20Olfa%20Debbeche-7344m.jpg?itok=8zSAfqPO)
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- 1 ultracentrifuge
- 2 interlocked, double-door sterilizers (autoclaves)
Our culture rooms
![NC3 salle de culture](https://www.chumontreal.qc.ca/sites/default/files/styles/fullscreen_mobile/public/2023-07/NC3%20-%20Olfa%20Debbeche-7329m.jpg?itok=Y37Cnzg6)
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