The Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR), or Electron Spin Resonance (ESR), is a central technique for characterizing paramagnetic species. In the field of Life Sciences, it is particularly well suited for molecular analysis of biological systems, their functions and interactions. The facility is mostly dedicated to applications and developments in Life Sciences at the Chemistry-Biology interface. It notably benefits from the scientific support of nine researchers and two engineers.
Also of particular significance, the facility is:-labelled 'Plateforme Technologique d’Aix-Marseille',
-one of the four french centres that make the French national EPR network RENARD (IR CNRS 3443), and the most important centre in terms of EPR equipments and human resources,
-the unique EPR centre in the european MOSBRI ('MOlecular Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure') consortium, along with the two other CIVIS partners : SUR and ULB, and in the frame of the european H2020 INFRAIA program that will start in July 2021 for four years.
The equipments precisely inlcude:-continuous wave spectrometers (S, X, Q, W bands),
-pulsed spectrometers (X, Q, W bands). EPR-MRS is one of the site belonging to the newly created MOSBRI (MOlecular Scale Biophysics Research Infrastructure).