Instruments and booking
Please select your imaging system below for further details.
All users must have an account on our booking system and have received training from the facility manager before using any facility equipment.
All under-graduates and Masters students must be supervised while using high end facility equipment such as confocals & live imaging systems. This should be by their primary supervisor or a postdoc.
Facility Access Fee: £25 per quarter. All users will be charged an access fee every three months for the use of any of the facility equipment. Full facility charges are detailed here: Using the Facility - Facility Charges.
Confocal Mircroscopes
Zeiss LSM 710 Invert
Zeiss LSM 880 Upright (water dipper) AiryScan Fast
Zeiss LSM 980 Upright (Water dipper) AiryScan2 and multiphoton
Nikon CRESTv3 Spinning Disk confocal
Widefield Microscopes
A range of high quality systems for fluorescence and transmitted light microscopy (histological stained samples).
Live Imaging
Nikon Ti2 with Kinetix camera and 8 channel LED. World class widefield system for live cell or fixed samples.
Imaging Workstations
Two workstations equipped with advanced imaging software.Custom image analysis workflows and macros to automate your analysis. Contact the facility manager for advice.
Funding and Acknowledgments
Please acknowledge use of the facility in all publications. Suggested text: Microscopy was performed at the Light Microscopy Core Facility, UCL GOS Institute of Child Health supported by the NIHR GOSH BRC award.
The facility is funded in part by an award from the NIHR Great Ormond St Hospital BRC.
How to get access
Location: UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH), 30 Guilford Street, London WC1N 1EH.
Opening hours:
Daily: Monday-Sunday 8am-10:30pm (open 7 days a week).
Staff availability: Monday-Friday, 9:30am-5:30pm.
Dr Dale Moulding
Facility Manager
Click to email. d.moulding@ucl.ac.uk Click to call. +44 (0)7787 699 609