Advanced Light Microscopy
Responsible Faculty: Stavros Taraviras, Professor, taraviras@med.upatras.gr, Zoi Lygerou, Professor, lygerou@med.upatras.gr
Equipment: Leica TCS SP5 Confocal Microscope equipped for live-cell imaging
Supported Methodologies: Confocal Microscopy, Epifluorescence Microscopy, 3D reconstruction, Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP), Fluorescence Loss in Photobleaching (FLIP), Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)
Applications: Co-localization of multiple fluorophores within cells and tissues, functional imaging, protein interactions in living cells, stem cell analysis, cell-based assays for drug validation
Equipment: Leica TCS SP5 Confocal Microscope equipped for live-cell imaging
Supported Methodologies: Confocal Microscopy, Epifluorescence Microscopy, 3D reconstruction, Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP), Fluorescence Loss in Photobleaching (FLIP), Förster Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)
Applications: Co-localization of multiple fluorophores within cells and tissues, functional imaging, protein interactions in living cells, stem cell analysis, cell-based assays for drug validation
Microarray Analysis
Responsible Faculty: Cosntantinos Stathopoulos, Professor, cstath@med.upatras.
Εquipment: Microarray Scanner ScanArray Express (Perkin Elmer) , Hybridiser HybArray12 (Perkin Elmer), Bioanalyser 2100 (Agilent)
Supported Methodologies: Microarray Analysis, Microanalysis
Applications: High-throughput gene expression analysis, Genotyping, SNP Analysis
RealTime PCR
Responsible Faculty: A. Papachatzopoulou, Assist Professor, apapacha@med.upatras.gr
Equipment: LightCycler 2.0 (Roche)
Supported Methodologies: Quantitative PCR
Applications: Gene expression analysis, Genotyping, pathogen identification
Equipment: LightCycler 2.0 (Roche)
Supported Methodologies: Quantitative PCR
Applications: Gene expression analysis, Genotyping, pathogen identification
Phosphorimager
Responsible Faculty: D. Drainas, Professor, drainas@med.upatras.gr
Equipment: Fuji FLA3000
Supported Methodologies: Imaging, quantification and analysis of fluorescence, chemiluminiscence, chemifluorescence, radio-isotopes ( 32P, 35S, 14C, 3H, 125I)
Applications: Quantification of nucleic acids and proteins
Equipment: Fuji FLA3000
Supported Methodologies: Imaging, quantification and analysis of fluorescence, chemiluminiscence, chemifluorescence, radio-isotopes ( 32P, 35S, 14C, 3H, 125I)
Applications: Quantification of nucleic acids and proteins
Ultracentrifuge
Responsible Faculty: Dimitrios Kalpaxis, Professor, dimkal@med.upatras.
Equipment: Beckmann Ultracentrifuge
Supported Methodologies: Ultracentrifugation of biological specimens
Applications: Subcellular fractionation, separation and preparation of cells and organelles, preparation of cellular extracts, purification of viral particles, purification of nucleic acids etc
Equipment: Beckmann Ultracentrifuge
Supported Methodologies: Ultracentrifugation of biological specimens
Applications: Subcellular fractionation, separation and preparation of cells and organelles, preparation of cellular extracts, purification of viral particles, purification of nucleic acids etc