On-Site Research Facilities
Euan MacDonald Centre (Chancellor’s Building, Little France)
Imaging suite:
- Zeiss LSM 710 confocal
- Zeiss fluorescent axio scope (capable of triple staining + far red (647)
- inverted fluorescent microscope with a CO2 chamber and heated stage
Human embryonic stem cell room:
- Three class II cabinets and six CO2 incubators, one of which runs as a hypoxic incubator with 3% O2
Primary cell culture room:
- Six CO2 incubators and three class II hoods.
- Hood with light microscope
Close source caesium irradiator
Contact: David Story, 0131 242 3637 <David.Story@ed.ac.uk>
Centre for Regenerative Medicine (Chancellor's Building, Little France and Roger Land Building, King's Buildings)
Extensive facilities including flow cytometry, digital microscopy, histology and transgenic service. Please see http://www.crm.ed.ac.uk/facilities for details.
Biomedical Research Facilities (Chancellor’s Building, Little France)
A full barrier facility offering sterile surgery suites, microinjection, embryo rederivation, stem cell culture, electrophysiology, optical imaging, ultrasound and a 7.5T MRI. An in-house unit for genotyping, rederivation and transgenesis, and a cryopreservation library banking service for embryos and sperm is also well-established.
Contact: the Chief Technicians <ctlf1@ed.ac.uk> and <ctlf2@ed.ac.uk>
Clinical Research Imaging Centre (CRIC; Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Little France)
- 3T whole-body magnetic resonance imaging scanner (3T MRI)
- Computed Tomography scanner (CT)
- Positron emission and computed tomography scanner (PET/CT)
- Cyclotron (capacity to generate novel tracer compounds)
Contact: Stuart Docherty, 0131 242 7767 <Stuart.Docherty@ed.ac.uk>
Confocal and Advanced Light Microscopy Facility (CALM; Queen’s Medical Research Institute, Little France)
- Leica SP5 C
- Zeiss LSM 510 META.
contact: For bookings & training, Shonna MacCall, 0131 242 9162 <s.maccall@ed.ac.uk>. Head of Facility (experimental design & other advice), Rolly Wiegand, 0131 650 2864 <calm.head@ed.ac.uk>
