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The MIMA2 platform (Microscopie et Imagerie des Micro-organismes, Animaux et Aliments) combines complementary equipment giving the possibility to perform imaging work from the nanoscopic scale to the whole animal, using live cells/pathogens or previously processed samples, as well as model and even domestic animals.

The platform is localized on the campus of the Jouy en Josas INRA center near Paris. It is open to external users, within the limit of its equipment capacities.

Practical know-how and laboratory space are available for users, including veterinary and surgical competence, sample processing protocols and automated processing equipment. Some of the work (mainly microscopic observations) can also be performed in confined L2 environment. Platform users can work in full autonomy after having trained and providing legal requirements are fulfilled (for animal experimentation) or ask for the platform to perform the analyses. The platform possesses a very large expertise, in particular in monitoring embryo and fetal development in vitro and in vivo, cardiology, non-invasive assessment of body composition in domestic animals, monitoring of infectious processes in animal models, micro-organisms and food matrix.

The microscopic and live imaging equipment of the platform are shared by several INRA research units (UMR 1198 BDR, UMR 1319 MICALIS, UMR 1313 GABI) and are altogether referenced as Outil Collectif N°35 and labeled regionally as a strategic platform. MIMA2 is also identified in the network of Paris-Saclay's university department of life sciences within the innovation domain "life quality, health and food".

The MIMA2 platform offers key resources in light and electron microscopy, as well as in medical and bioluminescent imaging. 

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MIMA2 platform is supported by "Région Ile-de-France"