to provide a comprehensive range of up-to-date communal facilities and instrumentation to all the members of the Institute, other departments of the College and external users by arrangement.

Being independent of any specific research group, the services and instrumentation are open equally to all users and enable scientists to concentrate on the experiment and not on its logistics.Technological expertise is available in the Institute that research groups could not individually justify.

The group provides training in specialist techniques and equipment, especially to PhD students and trainees. As new technologies emerge the Institute can adopt them and provide a competitive edge. The economies of scale and competitiveness with external suppliers help to stretch research budgets.

The quality of service provision is monitored by a peer review group and regularly measured against external providers in terms of price, quality and delivery.

Our current systems include:

Affymetrix GeneChip® Microarray System;
(Contact: J. Raby, 020 7679 6795, j.raby@ucl.ac.uk)
Hamilton Microlab STAR with SWAP arm;
(Contact P. Stevens, 020 7679 6719, p.stevens@ucl.ac.uk)
Kratos Analytical AXIMA CFR Mass Spectrometer;
(Contact C. Hyde, 020 7679 6769, carolyn.hyde@ucl.ac.uk)
Leica TCS SP Confocal Microscope;
(Contact T. Adejumo, 020 7679 6719, t.adejumo@ucl.ac.uk)
Advanced ChemTech Apex 396 Peptide Synthesiser;
(Contact C. Hyde, 020 7679 6769, carolyn.hyde@ucl.ac.uk)
Beckman Coulter CEQ2000XL DNA Sequencers;
(Contact: 020 7679 6719, dna.wibr@ucl.ac.uk)
Becton Dickinson FACSCalibur;
(Contact: T. Adejumo, 020 7679 6719, t.adejumo@ucl.ac.uk)
Cytomation Mo-Flo cell sorter;
(Contact: L. Martinez, 020 7679 6827, d.martinez@ucl.ac.uk)
AKTA FPLC systems;
(Contact R. Campbell, 020 7679 6703, richard.campbell@ucl.ac.uk)
Shimadzu and Gilson analytical and Gilson preparative HPLC·s;
(Contact C. Hyde, 020 7679 6769, carolyn.hyde@ucl.ac.uk)
ABI Prism 7700;
(Contact: J.Raby, 020 7679 6795, j.raby@ucl.ac.uk)