LEBHAM's scientific equipment
General Equipment


Standard equipement

- pHmeter
- Drying oven
- Cold chamber
- Freeze-unit at 80°C
- Rotary evaporators (2) (Büchi)
- Centrifuge
- Freeze-dryer (Heraeus Lyovac GT2)

Freeze-dryer


Scientific equipment to study biomolecules

- Extraction process for natural biomolecules including cell-wall polysaccharides of marine algae
- Viscosimeter (Brookfield)
- Kjeldhal Analyser (Büchi)
- UV-visible spectrophotometer (Schimadzu UV 160A)
- FID spectrophotometer (Corning)

Spectrophotometer

- Chromatographic system (Pharmacia) including a peristaltic pump, a UV monitor, a fraction collector and a recorder
                         High pressure liquid chromatographic systems High pressure liquid chromatographic systems

- High pressure liquid chromatographic systems (Waters) including :
          - Solvent delivery system, 4 channels, in line degazor (2)
          - Autosampler drived by microprocessor system
          ( 48 4 mL samples or 96 1 mL samples)
          - Column heater compartment (0 - 90°C)
          - Detector systems:
                    - UV-visible detector
                    - photodiode array detector
                    - refractive index detector
                    - fluorescence detector
          - Software MILLENIUM

HPLC


Scientific equipment for écophysiology and biodiversity studies

- Seaweed collections
- Photonic microscope
- Epifluorescence microscopy fitted with an image analysing system

- Thermostated chambers supplied with running seawater

Thermostated chambers supplied

- Culture incubators (2)

Culture incubators

- Luminometer (Packard)
- Computerized Clark type oxygen electrod system (Hansatech)


Informatic equipment

- Computer systems: Mac and PC, internet access, scanner, numeric camera


Specific Equipment

- Room for the manipulation of radioactive compounds (e.g. radioactive labelling), scintillation counter
- Electron microscope :
          Transmission electron microscope
          Scanning electron microscope
- Spectroscopy :
          Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
          Fourier Transform Infra-Red spectroscopy
Research Contracts since 1996

- SCIENCE ET MER - ANVAR contract (A 9702020-AE).

- CORDET contract (Université Française du Pacifique - Secrétariat d'Etat à l'Outre-Mer): Secondary metabolites and chemical defence of macrophytes in reef environment.

- KOPARA Contract (Université Française du Pacifique and Gouvernement territorial de Polynésie Française): Structural study of exopolysaccharides from microbial mats (cyanobacteria) of Tuamotou atolls and potential valorization in both cosmetics and pharmacy related fields.

- DRV IFREMER Contract n° 972577027.

- GLOBE EXPORT - ANVAR Contract (Présence Bretagne): within the Network Technological Provision program, n°9212080.

- Laboratoires Pharmaceutiques BOIRON contract for provision of a research work.