The First Evirogenomic Profile
Near Acadia National Park in northeastern Maine, I feel the frigid wind blow off the ocean at the Mount Desert Island
Biological Laboratory, a cluster of buildings enveloped in snow and surrounded by winter - bare trees.
IDMIT is an infrastructure for preclinical research in infectious diseases and immunology which is certified ISO9001 and which includes 1) A large animal facility with capacity to host NHP in BSL2 and BSL3 containment, 2) State - of - the - art
laboratories for cell biology, immunology, molecular biology, flow cytometry and mass cytometry (CyTof), cell - sorting and confocal microscopy in BSL3 containment; 3) A
biological resources centre with high storage capacity; 4) Highly innovative technologies for in vivo imaging of large animals in BSL2 and BSL3 containment, including a two - photon microscope, a PET - CT facility, and several optic based technologies (fibered endo - microscopy,
near infra - red imaging).