Research facilities

Our research uses cutting edge facilities at the School of Biosciences, and our researchers have a direct involvement in the creation and direction of some of them: 

• Birmingham Advanced Light Microscopy facility (BALM) - for in vivo and in vitro fluorescent imaging particularly with widefield, TIRF snd Laser Scanning Confocal microscopy.
• Functional Genomics, Proteomics and Metabolomics Facility - for high-throughput sequencing, RNA-seq and Chi-seq
• Advanced Mass Spectrometry facility - (Director: Helen Cooper): for identification and characterization of proteins and protein modifications.
• Birmingham Biophysical Characterisation Facility (BBCF) - for analysis of protein structure
• Phenome Centre Birmingham: for high throughput metabolic phenotyping of the human population applying mass spectrometry and NMR spectroscopy
• Birmingham Fly Facility Facility: to breed fruit-flies and share know-how in modern reverse and forward genetics.
• Transmission Electron Microscopy: to visualize cellular components and processes with high resolution