Research Facilities
The School of Biomedical Sciences and Pharmacy has a range of facilities and infrastructure for biomedical training and research. These include:
- Cell culture laboratories
- Viral tissue culture room
- Human tissue handling facility
- Radioactive Assay Laboratory
- PC2 and PC3 standard laboratories
- Infectious animal holding cages (IVC)
- Liquid nitrogen storage facilities
- Proteomics equipment
- Ettan spot picker
- Ettan Pr Maldi-TOF
- 2D gel equipment
- Procise 494-HT Protein Sequencer
- Biacore 3000
- MegaBACE 500 DNA sequencer
- Advanced genetic analysis facility
- Cell Sorting/Analysis
- FACS Calibur (3-colour)
- FACS Vantage
- FACS Canto (6 colour)
- Microscopy facilities
- Regular light & inverted microscopes
- Confocal microscopes
- Zeiss Axioplan 2 Epifluorescence Microscope/Apotome
- Zeiss Cell Observer Live Cell Imaging Microscope
- Cell Imaging equipment (fluorescent and brightfield microscopes and analysis software)
- Cryostat - Leica CM1900
- Thermal Cyclers
- Real-Time PCR
- Amaxa Nucleofector (transfection of mammalian cells)
- Centrifuges
- Microfuges, benchtop centrifuges (normal and refrigerated)
- Vacuum centrifuges
- Ultracentrifuges
- Spectrophotometers
- Nanodrop spectrophotometer
- Fluorescent spectrophotometer
- FLUOstar Optima (fluorescent plate reader)
- Typhoon 9410 (laser scanner for gels, western blots, microarrays etc)
- BioPlex machine
- Scintillation counters
- FPLC & HPLC
- Gas chromatographs
- Aggregometer
- Sonicators
- Electrophysiology rigs
- Airways/lung function equipment
- Freeze driers
- Milli Q water systems & Glassware washers
