Equipment

The analytical platform (PFA) is a shared structure of the UPJV which responds to the most diverse aspects of the structural analysis of molecules by mass spectrometry MS (high resolution HRMS, MS/MS, couplings to high-performance liquid chromatography UPLC /MS and gas chromatography GC/MS and GC/FTIR/MS) and by NMR nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (liquid, solid, gel).

As far as mass spectrometry is concerned, the platform disposes of:

- two high resolution QTOF type mass spectrometers (MALDI, UPLC/ESI, HRMS, IMS, MS/MS)

- a gas chromatography/infrared/quadrupole (GC/FTIR/MS) coupling and a GC/BID coupling.

As for NMR instrumentation, the platform disposes of:

- a 400 MHz spectrometer (Bruker DPX-300) with a 5 mm quadruple-core probe ( 1H, 13C, 31P, 19F) and equipped with a 60-sample autosampler and a cryoprobe.

- a 300 MHz spectrometer (Bruker DPX-300 wide bore) with several probes: 5 mm ( 1 H- 13 C), 8 mm (BBI

and BBO with gradients), 10 mm (BB and a 1H, 31P) and 20 mm (BB) allowing to set up of in vivo experiments (plant metabolic monitoring) and a multi-core 7 mm probe (CP-MAS).

- a 500 MHz spectrometer (Bruker DRX-500) with several liquid and solid probes: 1 inverse multi-nuclear 5 mm probe and 2 CP-MAS multi-nuclear solid probes (4 mm and 2.5 mm) as well as a high resolution 4 mm probe HR-MAS solid / gel ( 1H, 13C).

- a 600 MHz spectrometer dedicated to the analysis of samples in solution and equipped with a 5 mm direct multinuclear + 19 F probe, a 5 mm triple-core TXI probe ( 1H / 13C / 15N) and a 1.7 mm triple-core TXI probe ( 1H / 13C / 15N). This spectrometer is also equipped with a 60-sample autosampler.

The calculation platform (MatriCS) is at the service of all the laboratories of the Picardie Jules Verne University. The calculator consists of 

-48 thin nodes (28 cores and 128 GB of RAM), 

-12 thick nodes (28 cores and 512 GB of RAM), 

-6 bi-gpus nodes (40 cores, 384 GB of RAM and 2 GPUs (Tesla V100 -32G), 

-2 quad-gpus nodes (40 cores, 768 GB of RAM and 4 Tesla V100 SXM2-32G-NVLINK GPUs). 

The latter are processors capable of executing numerous operations in parallel. A visualisation node (36 cores, 192GB of RAM and 1 Tesla P40 GPU) is also available to users (software: Nice DCV 2017).

Regional Resource Center in Molecular Biology (CRRBM)

The aim of the platform is to provide state-of-the-art equipment and technical skills in classic molecular biology but also genomic analysis (study of the genome/DNA), transcriptomic analysis (study of gene/RNA expression) and analysis of molecular interactions and enzymatic activities.