Division of Parasitology and Core Facilities

Fossati Team

Our lab’s main goal is to discover these bacterial defense systems, understand their composition and viral triggers as well as identifying phage mechanisms to evade them. Driving this goal is the desire to combat phage resistance mechanisms to make bacteria more susceptible to phage predation. In other words, we want to tilt the scale of the phage-bacterial warfare towards the phage by disabling the bacterial immunity.

Fossati Team

Akira Kaneko Project- Malaria elimination on islands

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Malaria is a disease related to poverty. Islands provide a natural environment for ecological experiments and a great potential for intervention studies. Cooperating with endemic communities on islands in Vanuatu, Oceania since 1987 and in Lake Victoria, Kenya since 2008, Akira has studied the feasibility and sustainability of malaria elimination with the ultimate aim of proposing a community-directed strategy of sustainable malaria freedom and development towards global malaria eradication.

Akira Kaneko Project

BSL3 Biomedicum Core Facility

The Biosafety Level 3 (BSL3) Biomedicum Core Facility is an infrastructure for research needs on highly-pathogenic microorganisms.

BSL3 Core Facility

Biomedicum Flow Cytometry Core Facility

The Biomedicum Flow Cytometry Core Facility (BFC) is a shared resource laboratory providing a comprehensive suite of services to support your research needs in flow cytometry. Our state-of-the-art facility offers conventional and full spectral cytometry for multi-parametric analysis, as well as multiparameter fluorescence activated cell sorting.

Biomedicum Flow Cytometry Core Facility