AMIS was established in 2016 following a strategic investment of over £1.3m and draws together over 45 pieces of state-of-the-art advanced molecular imaging equipment.
This umbrella service operates within dedicated facilities across the institutes of the School of Medicine and Dentistry, namely the Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), Blizard Institute and William Harvey Research Institute (WHRI), the School of Engineering and Material Sciences and the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences. Over 16 highly experienced core facility staff support a broad spectrum of multi-disciplinary users ensuring cutting-edge imaging capacity at one of the leading research centres in the UK and the world.
Location: Charterhouse Square campus
Our extensive facilities for molecular imaging and analysis include three separate departments. Microscopy includes 3 confocal microscopes, time-lapse, laser capture and slide scanning. Flow cytometry houses 2xFACS, 4 analysers, CytOF Mass Cytometry and an Imagestream II.
Contact
Linda Hammondemail: l.hammond@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 5132
Our Preclinical Imaging Facility provides a full range of in vivo small animal imaging equipment. This includes molecular imaging with PET/CT and SPECT/CT fully supported with radiochemistry facilities. Both instruments can also be used for standalone CT imaging. The BCI/WHRI IVIS Lumina III instrument provides optical imaging (bioluminence and fluorescence imaging) and a Vevo 2100 Ultrasound imaging instrument allows high resolution vascular imaging. MRI imaging is also available through an NC3R's funded 1T low field instrument (Bruker ICON).
Julie Fosteremail: j.m.foster@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 2053
Jane Sosabowskiemail: j.k.sosabowski@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 3849
Flow Cytometer and Fluorescence microscope combined. Soon to be installed multi-parameter tissue imager using heavy metal conjugated antibody labeling.
Julfa Begumemail: julfa.begum@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 2119
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The MIC-LIS facility consists of multiple confocal and brightfield microscopes suitable for both in vivo and in vitro imaging. The inverted Zeiss 800 microscope is suitable for in-vitro live cell imaging, FRAP and FRET with temperature and CO2 control. The upright Leica SP5 and SP8 confocal microscopes are designed for intravital microscopy but also suitable for fast and highly sensitive multi-colour confocal imaging of fixed preparations. The time lapse epifluorescent microscopes and multiple brightfield/epifluorescent microscopes are suitable for in vitro and intravital live cell imaging.
Mathieu-Benoit Voisinemail: m.b.voisin@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 8238
Tom Nightingaleemail: t.nightingale@qmul.ac.uk
This new state-of-the-art confocal microscope allows for near super-resolution imaging (140nm) with its Airyscan detector. The system is equipped with the following lasers: Diode 405nm, Multiline Argon (458nm, 488nm and 514nm), DPSS 561nm, HeNe 594nm and a HeNe 633nm. Bookings can be made via iLabs (£25/hour) following training.
Emma Duncanemail: e.j.duncan@qmul.ac.uk
Paul Chappleemail: j.p.chapple@qmul.ac.uk
Location: Whitechapel campus
The Blizard Advanced Light Microscopy Faciltiy (BALM) provides high-tech multi-million pound advanced imaging technology and experienced staff. The BALM provides a broad range of equipment to cover most light microscopy applications and has the services to suit everyone from experienced light microscopy specialists, to people who have never touched a microscope before. We can cater for simple fluorescent microscopy to superresolution imaging. State of the art equipment allows for live cell confocal imaging at 140nm superresolution at speeds of 10fps. For deep imaging of biopsies and organotypic cultures, a Multiphoton acquisition system with excitation from 680 to 1080nm is available. Combined with the fast Airyscan and precision extended range piezo z drive, thick samples can be imaged extremely fast and accurately at increased signal to noise and at superresolution. Large specimens can be cleared and stained beforehand with our Clarity tissue clearing setup. Analysis and visualisation of 3D samples is made easy with the IMARIS analysis suite. Any Histology Samples can be scanned on our TissueFaxs Inverted Plus slidescanner which is optimal for detailed slide scans of fluorescent and histopathology samples. With a 7 line LED light engine, a wide variety of fluorophores can be easily scanned and cell populations can be analysed on the Tissuegnostics analysis software packages Strataquest, HistoQuest and Tissuequest. Our Laser Dissection Microscope allows the collection of single cell material for analysis.
Jan Soetaertemail: j.soetaert@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 2406
Belen Martin-Martinemail: b.martin-martin@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 2407
The QMUL Phenotypic Screening Facility provides high-throughput and automated imaging for widefield and confocal assays in 2D and 3D, using fixed or live cell assays. We also house liquid handling robotics capable of automating cell based assays from cell seeding through to staining and stock genome wide siRNA libraries.
Luke Gammonemail: l.gammon@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 2342
Location: Mile End campus
Our facility at the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences houses a Leica SP5 confocal microscope equipped with a number of lasers for probe excitation between 355 nm and 633 nm. Additionally a Spectra-Physics Mai Tai HP laser with tunnable range 690nm to 1040nm is available for two photon microscopy.
Michaela Egertovaemail: m.egertova@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 3317
Our facility houses the JEM-1230 Transmission Electron Microscope suitable for ultrastructure analysis of biological samples. Example application sinclude Ultrastructure analysis, Immunogold labeling, Negative staining for a range of different samples, Freeze-Fracture replication technique.
Giulia Mastroianniemail: g.mastroianni@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 5034
Within the School of Engineering and Materials Science we have confocal, multi photon and super resolution imaging capability.There are three confocal systems (Leica TCS SP2, Zeiss LSM 710 and Perkin Elmer Spinning Disc) providing standard confocal imaging with FRAP, FLIP and FRET analysis. The Leica system includes Multiphoton imaging capability. The Zeiss system includes a Super resolution system (ELYRA PS.1) providing super resolution techniques: SIM, TIRF and PALM, and falls under the umberella of our Institute of Bioengineering. The Zeiss system also includes an environmental chamber with temperature, CO2 and O2 control.We also have a incubator mounted timelapse fluorescence imaging system with automated stage control (Lumascope 720).
Martin Knightemail: m.m.knight@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 8868
The NanoVision Centre is an electron microscopy and scanning probe microscopy facility that provides support for research across faculties at QMUL. Capabilities of the Centre include analytical scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, focused ion beam techniques as well as atomic force and scanning tunneling microscopy. Our expertise lies in cross-disciplinary approaches to solve problems in materials science, cell and structural biology, solid state physics and the earth sciences.
email: nanovision@qmul.ac.uk
Nadja Tarakinaemail: n.tarakina@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 8469
Giulia Mastroianniemail: g.mastroianni@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 6502
Russell Baileyemail: r.j.bailey@qmul.ac.ukTel: +44 (0)20 7882 8468