Facilities

As the new home of the School of Biological Sciences, our £60m Health and Life Sciences building is purpose-built for teaching and research.

The building houses a flexible teaching lab that can be subdivided to create up to four separate spaces, research labs, seminar rooms, study space and a cafe.

Our recently refurbished labs are designed to accommodate every discipline within biological sciences.

Facilities include:

• tissue culture suites
• multi-mode microplate readers (absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence)
• multicolour flow cytometry
• real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR), digital gel scanning and documentation
• spectrophotometers
• centrifuges
• ultra-centrifuges
• fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) and high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC)
• large scale growth, migration, harvesting, electroporation and introduction of genes of microbial and animal cells
• equipment for animal behavioural assays.

Our microscopy suites host versatile and powerful microscopes with functions as various as live cell imaging, dissection recording, time-lapse recording and analysis.

Our interdisciplinary research centres and facilities offer excellent learning opportunities:

• The cardiovascular imaging facility houses a Human Imaging Suite containing equipment for the measurement of bone mineral density (BMD), fat and lean tissue mass and the distribution of bodily tissues. 
• The Institute for Cardiovascular and Metabolic Research incorporates human imaging facilities and advanced microscopy suites purpose-built for biomedical research. The Centre focuses on research into thrombosis and haemostasis, cardiac cell biology and physiology, and vascular biology.
• We collaborate extensively with the Centre for Integrative Neuroscience and Neurodynamics and the Institute for Food, Nutrition and Health.