The Division's core facilities include imaging technologies, flow cytometry facilities, microscopes, and grating-coupled interferometry technology, located across the Bloomsbury campus.
Paul O'Gorman Building
The Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging (CABI), based in Huntley Street, is ideally suited for cross-disciplinary work in neuroscience, cardiovascular biology and oncology.
Our state of the art equipment includes:
- High-field Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
- Photoacoustic Imaging facility
- Optical Projection Tomography
- Light-Sheet Imaging
- Ultrasound, Bioluminescence and Fluorescence imaging
- Confocal Endoscopy
- SPECT / CT
- PET / MRI / CT
Cruciform Building
The following facilities are managed by the Wolfson Institute for Biomedical Research.
Creoptix WAVE GCI/SPR
The WAVE's high data quality, sample compatibility and automated software enables drug discovery and new inroads into R&D.
Zeiss 880 Airyscan FAST Microscope
A fast confocal laser scanning microscope with four confocal detectors, temperature regulated detectors, electronics, and scanners.
Rayne Building
The Rayne facility provides training and access to cutting-edge flow cytometry analysers and cell sorting instruments with both conventional and spectral based technology.
Flow Cytometry Facility
Our equipment includes:
- BD FACS Discover S8
- BD FACS Aria (SORP)
- Sony ID7000 Spectral Analyser
- BD LSRFortessa X-20 (SORP)
- BD LSRFortessa
- BDFACS Verse
Cell Imaging
A part-managed facility containing:
- A Zeiss Axioskop 2 fluorescent microscope linked to computer controlled colour and black & white cameras.
- Typhoon 8600 variable mode imager, for imaging gels/membranes using chemiluminescence, fluorescence or phosphor
- DIGE imaging of cy- labelled proteins with software for proteomic analysis.
These are available through a booking system at low cost.
Contact
- Dr Shanie Budhram-Mahadeo (v.budhram-mahadeo@ucl.ac.uk)
- Dr Ian Evans (i.evans@ucl.ac.uk).
Royal Free
The Centre for Biomedical Science (CBS) comprises expert staff and platforms for Advanced Microscopy, Proteomics and Transgenics and prioritises collaborations with investigators located on the Royal Free Campus. Major platforms include:
- Confocal microscopes
- UPLC-Orbitrap/ETD and MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometers
- Plasmid micro-injection stages.
All three units offer advice for project design, costing and grant application. They operate on a cost-recovery basis, and welcome new collaborations in translational biomedical research.
Contact
- Prof. Justin Hsuan (j.hsuan@ucl.ac.uk).