The School’s teaching is firmly based on our research excellence and offers students an intellectually stimulating and supportive experience, with opportunities for personal research experience and use of modern technology to enhance learning. The School has a population of around 1650 undergraduates studying a range of subjects The School has laboratories, offices and teaching spaces that are spread across 5 buildings. We run Technical Hubs that house equipment providing excellent facilities spanning a range of disciplines including analytical chemistry, molecular and cellular biology, protein work, electrophysiology, imaging, and covering a range of animal models including ants, bees, Drosophila, snails, zebrafish and mice. We maintain core technical hubs for mass spectrometry, X-ray crystallography, siRNA screening and NMR. Mass spectrometry is used by chemists, structural biologists and biochemists, and is employed in studies including drug design and optimisation and
analyses of environmental pesticides. X-ray crystallography has underpinned the elucidation of the structural basis for the function of macromolecular complexes involved in DNA damage and repair and chaperone pathways and the development of structure-led drug discovery projects across multiple areas. The Wolfson Centre for Biological Imaging houses 18 sophisticated microscopes, including confocal, multiphoton, spinning disk and super-resolution. We are currently expanding our Electron Microscope capability, with high resolution cryo-EM, which will be used across multiple subject groups. There are a wide range of tissue culture facilities for cell lines and primary cells and microbial work. For ecological work, we maintain field vehicles, greenhouses and a large range of field equipment; ecological projects involve a range of field sites on or near the campus, including bee hives and a grassland reparation project.
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