Presentation
The Cell and Tissue Imaging Platform (PICT) provides services, training and technological innovation in cellular imaging to academic and private scientific communities, in life science and health.
The platform is labelled “Infrastructure in Biology, Health and Agronomy” (IBiSA) and is a member of the France-BioImaging & Euro-Bioimaging infrastructures.
Our expertise covers multi-scale imaging from the molecule to the organism in the field of cancer research. The imaging center is composed of 3 poles: photonic microscopy, electron microscopy & CryoEM and high-content screening (HCS, Biophenics).
Mission
- Provide state-of-the-art technologies and expertise in photonic, electron & CryoEM microscopy, HCS (Biophenics) and image analysis,
- Provide training, assistance and advice to users,
- Carry out technical, methodological and software developments,
- Collaborate on science and technology projects,
- Participate in the dissemination of knowledge (training courses, congresses, open lab, etc.) at national and international level.
The platform is open to all researchers, both internal and external to the Institut Curie.
PICT : A certified Platform
The PICT at Institut Curie was officially recognized as an operational platform in life sciences (under the coordination of the RIO network of cellular imaging platforms) in 2003. This recognition was renewed in 2008 when the PICT was certified by the GIS IBiSA (Infrastructure in Biology, Health and Agronomy https://www.ibisa.net/). Since 2011, the PICT-IBiSA has been a member of the France-BioImaging infrastructure (https://france-bioimaging.org/).
Since 2007, in close collaboration with Nikon France, Nikon BV, and other industrial partners, the platform has also hosted and managed the Nikon Imaging Centre (http://nimce.curie.fr/), one of only three such centers in Europe and one of nine worldwide.
