Guidelines and policies, service request form
For guidelines and policies related to blood parameters analyses, please refer to the specific pages on our web site. For metabolic analyses, please read below.
Application for Services
Concepts and practical aspects of the tests are found under Description, protocol and pricing of the analytical procedures. After identifying the appropriate test(s), the applicant is invited to address to the MEF supervisor (Frederic.Preitner@unil.ch) a short written description of his/her project for evaluation. The MEF personel aims at providing access to the largest number of applicants possible. Therefore, decisions to perform labor-intensive experiments (“secondary screen”) will rely on experimental data obtained by rapid analyses (“primary screen”) performed beforehand by the applicant or at the MEF.
A discussion meeting between the MEF supervisor and the requesting laboratory is called to decide on the final strategy and provide a cost estimate. At this point, a filled Request for Service Form is signed by both the Principal Investigator of the requesting laboratory and the MEF supervisor, and a schedule is planned for the test. Applications should be sent several weeks prior the experiments.
Priority access is on a "first come-first served" basis. Therefore, last-minute requests might be honored with a significant delay. However, the MEF supervisor has some flexibility towards priority access, which might depend on practical aspects. The laboratory requesting service of the MEF agrees to provide the required animals for the planned experiments, and to pay the MEF the appropriate fees. The applicant also acknowledges and accepts that the final price and total number of animals required to complete the test may vary according to difficulties encountered specifically with some rodent models.
Data and Data Ownership
All data will be processed, presented in an appropriate way and sent as an electronic document to the applicant. The MEF personnel will be available to discuss various aspects of the test, including experimental details and interpretation of the results.
All data generated upon request in the MEF strictly belong to the applicant investigator and his institution. Thus, this data cannot be used by the MEF personnel for personal or institutional research purposes unless a formal, written agreement of collaboration is established between MEF personnel and the investigator.
The MEF personnel and the investigator must read and sign a Mouse/Tissue transfer agreement that clearly defines rights and responsibilities of each part.
Pricing policy
Price information is available for each test on the Tests and services web pages. A written estimate of the fees must be signed by the applicant before animals can be shipped to the Center.
Fees applied to the Cardiomet Academic Partners are set at a fraction of the total cost of the tests. For private companies and biotech firms, access to the Cardiomet service is charged at full cost.
Animal Guidelines
Please refer to Animal care, shipping and handling guidelines or contact the MEF personnel for specific questions.
Acknowledgements & Authorship
Investigators are expected to acknowledge the use of the MEF in their publications. In addition, whenever time-consuming, labor-intensive experiments that require substantial scientific input are performed (“secondary screen”), the contribution of the MEF staff should be recognized as a scientific collaboration, and involved MEF collaborators will be authors in resulting publications.
Request for Service Form
Please fill and send us by email the required information below
- Date
- Name
- Group
- Institute
- Email address / Phone number
- Nature of the project. Please briefly describe
 the mouse model (genetic modification, diet, drug treatment, etc)
the required tests, as agreed with the MEF staff.
a comment about the expected phenotype is required for some experiments to optimize the experimental conditions.
- Number of groups/number of animals per group
- Price estimation for the test(s), as agreed between the MEF staff and the applicant laboratory
Contacts
Supervisor : Frederic.Preitner@unil.ch
Technician : Salima.Metref@unil.ch, AnabelaCristina.DaCosta@unil.ch
Director : Bernard.Thorens@unil.ch
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