Polyphenols biotech

Name of the responsible structure

  • Jean-Michel Mérillon

Guardianship of the structure

  • ADERA - 162 Avenue du Dr Albert Schweitzer, 33600 Pessac

Referent person for trade with MetaboHUB

  • Marie Micouleau (manager)

Location

  • ISVV - CS 50008
210, Chemin de Leysotte
F-33882 Villenave d'Ornon (France)

Website

Domain

1- Phytochemistry (analytical expertise, method development).
2- Plant biotechnologies (screening of biological activities on cellular models - antioxidant and anti-inflammatory ...; plant biomass production and compounds in vitro).
3- Health (elicitors development of natural defenses and alternative plant extracts).

Services

Services.
Participation in R & D projects.

Analytical capacity with the kind of mastered technical

10 to 1000 samples depending on the work required.

Equipments

Access to all facilities of Gesvab:
Equipements :

  • air-conditioned culture room (25°C)
  • animal cell culture room
  • 2 plant cell culture rooms
  • 2 CO2 incubators
  • 3 laboratory autoclaves
  • 3 laminar air flow benches
  • 1 inverted microscope
  • 1 iCycler real-time PCR detection system, electrophoresis, Digital Gel Camera
  • orbital shakers for cell suspension culture
  • 4 bioreactors (2, 5, 10, 20 L)
  • 1 ultracentrifuge (105g)
  • 1 extractor L/L (50 L)
  • 5 analytical HPLC and 1 UPLC equipments with UV/visible (diode array), fluorescence, radioactivity and MS/MS detection
  • 2 semi-preparative HPLC equipments
  • fraction collectors and rotary evaporators
  • 2 fast centrifugal partition chromatograph (FCPC; 200mL, 1 L)
  • 1 UV/visible spectrophotometer (thermostated)
  • 1 fluorescence spectrophotometer (thermostated)
  • 2 ultra-low temperature freezers (- 80°C)
  • 1 freeze drier
  • 1 LC-NMR spectrometer (600 MHz)
  • 2 Silicon Graphic stations for molecular modeling (software MSI)
  • 3 PC/Linux stations for data NMR processing (software GIFA).

Skills and Human Resources

Jean-Michel Mérillon (responsable scientifique)  (Scientific leader)
Marie Micouleau (PhD, manager – CDI Adera)   (PhD, manager - Adera CDI)
Elodie Renouf (Ingénieur chimiste – CDI Adera)   (Chemical Engineer - CDI Adera)
Embauche de CDD en fonction des projets
Temporary hiring based projects

Quality approach

laboratory notebook (experiences and materials).
Confidentiality agreement…