ECLT has been developing in a very fast and successful way, getting a new larger and more suitable location, new fields of research and new projects. Also an experimental laboratory, the LivingTech Laboratory, has been recently created to develop biochemical experimentation in ECLT.
- Location
ECLT has now a primary research seat in a significant large space at Ca’ Minich, in the complex of the Insituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere e Arti, at Campo Santo Stefano, which is in the centre of the town of Venice. ECLT also has access to conference rooms, conference and workshop facilities, common rooms, cafeteria, library, and garden also at Palazzo Franchetti that is part the Institute.
The administrative seat is at Ca’ della Zorza (close to Palazzo Ca’ Foscari, seat of the University, with three room offices dedicated to ECLT).
- The LivingTech Laboratory
ECLT has now a new experimental seat in a significant large space at Torre Hammon, in the scientific and technologiacl park of Venice, VEGA. The Laboratory has been realized with the support of the DICE Project funded by the bank foundation “Fondazione di Venezia” and coordinated by Irene Poli.
The “LivingTech Lab” is equipped with cutting-edge high-throughput screening equipment to allow the investigation of complex biological systems.
The initial equipment concern the following areas:
- molecular biology: PCR, multi-label imaging system, 1D and 2D-electrophoresis system.
- protein biochemistry: expression and purification of recombinant proteins and their characterization by bio-physical methods.
- high-throughput screening: 4-channel liquid handling robot equipped with a broad range of devices for manipulation of biological samples under a wide range of chemical conditions, microplate-based (from 96 to 1536-wells) multi label detection system (Absorbance, glow and flash chemio- luminescence, bottom- top fluorescence, time-resolved fluorescence, polorise fluorescence for enzyme screening), sample storage and retrieving system with linear-bar code
- analytical chemistry: high-throughput HPLC and FPLC coupled with UV-Vis spectrometer and fluorimeter
In addition, a web-based data management platform has been deployed in order to ensure data-sharing among research groups (chemists, biologists, statisticians, physicists, computer scientists, engineers) to promote joint research projects.