Core Facilities

The Medical School possess a wide range of up-to-date equipment to enable us to service an internationally leading research organisation. These facilities are available for collaborative projects as well as contract research.

Flow Cytometry
This facility boasts 4 analysers, one of which is a start of the art 4 laser 13 colour detector machine, there is also a 3 laser 9 colour cell sorter and a 2 laser system capable of quantifying multiple soluble proteins in small sample volumes.

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Genetics
This facility offers high throughput cap-sequencing on an ABI 3730/48 platform, microsatellite and snp genotyping on an ABI 310 and two ABI 7900 platforms, and RT-PCR phenotyping of mRNA by TaqMan.

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Histology
This facility offers expertise in immunohistochemistry, in-situ hybridization, tissue banking, frozen sections, and image cytometry for ploidy analysis.

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Microarray
This facility consists of an Agilent 2100 bioanalyser to examine RNA integrity and concentration and an Affymetrix Gene Chip hybridisation system allowing us to offer a range of expression and SNP array analysis. Gene Chip expression arrays are now available for a large number of organisms.

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High Throughput Robotic Screening
This facility consists of two highly specialised Genetix robots, Q-bot and MegaPix, that are able to perform a variety of liquid handling, colony picking and re-arraying (cherry picking) routines.This system is capable of processing thousands of samples per day.

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Microscopy Facility
The core Microscopy facilities in the Medical School provide a comprehensive biological imaging service to all departments.

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Other Facilities

Bone Analysis Laboratory
The bone analysis lab was established in 2003 to provide members of the Musculoskeletal theme and academics throughout the medical school with access to contemporary approaches to analysing bone.