technical expertise

• Bioinformatics (c-shell, sed, awk, perl, blast, R, staden, qiime, ampliconnoise, mothur, usearch, muscle, tcoffee, clustal, mira, ray)
• Bio-molecule extraction and analysis (proteomic approaches, HPLC…)
• Chemistry of natural products (LC-MS, NMR)
• Community Fingerprinting (DGGE, SSCP, tRFLP, LH-PCR, ARISA)
• Cultivation techniques including bioreactors
• Cytometry tools (flow cytometry, solid phase cytometry)
• Fibroblast or keratinocyte cell culture
• Genomic Techniques (Fosmids, BACS)
• High throughput techniques (i.e. screening, cultivation)
• Molecular Phylogenetics (arb, mrBayes, phylip, fastDNAml)
• Molecular probing (chemscan, microarrays, biosensors)
• Molecular techniques (PCR/Cloning/Sequencing)
• Real-time quantitative PCR and (gene quantification)
• Screening of bacterial UV resistance (DNA damages), of antibiotic production.
• Screening of natural product pharmacological activities (anti-oxidant, UV filter, DNA protection, cytotoxicity)
• Whole cell detection (Immunofluorescence and Fluorescence in situ hybridization)