Catalogue of Expertise and Equipment

Areas of expertise

• Artificial Intelligence
• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Cell Biology
• Computational Biology
• Developmental Biology
• Epidemiology
• Genetics
• Genomics
• Good Manufacturing Practice
• Histopathology
• Molecular Biology
• Neuroscience
• Pathogenesis
• Psychophysics
• Proteomics
• Qualitative Research and PPIE (Patient, Public Involvement and Engagement)
• Retinal Electrophysiology
• Tissue Engineering
• Transcriptomics

Equipment

If you wish to use any of this equipment, please contact the person indicated in the respective row and column, and arrange training with them, if needed.

Equipment	Principal use and general comments	Contact Person
AOSLO (Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope)	Human Photoreceptors	Angelos Kalitzeos
Autostainer	n/a	Samanta Da Silva Fonseca
Brightfield microscopes	Almost any multicellular organism	Lab managers
Cell culture hood and incubators	Human, porcine, mouse/endothelial cells, RPE, eye	Lab managers
Centrifuge	Cells	Lab managers
Computers and network storage solutions mid-HPC	Images, it is a largely bespoke kit	Nikolas Pontikos
Confocal microscopes	Animals, histology	Matt Hayes,  Diana Sefic Svara, Dhani Tracey-White
Conventional human visual electrophysiology equipment	Located outside IoO (contact Omar Mahroo for info)	Omar Mahroo
Cryostats	n/a	Lab managers
Electroencephalography	Humans, from infancy to old age	Tessa Dekker
Electroporation	Cells	Amanda Carr, Naheed Kanuga
Embedding centre	n/a	Samanta Da Silva Fonseca
Embedding oven	Resin embedded electron microscopy samples	Clare Futter
Eye-tracking	Humans, from infancy to old age	Tessa Dekker
Flow cytometer	Proteins and cells derived from tissues, blood, fluids	Virginia Calder, Ayad Eddaoudi
Fluorescent stereomicroscope	Any samples	Ryan MacDonald
Grade B cleanroom	Translation of research protocols into regulatory compliant clinical (human) advanced therapies manufacturing Advanced therapies manufactured for pre-clinical testing (human cells) Advanced therapies manufactured for clinical trials	Julie Daniels
High-performance computing	n/a	Anthony Khawaja
Immuno autostainer	n/a	Samanta Da Silva Fonseca
Infrared scanner	Any	Karl Matter
2 Linux HPCs with GPUs + storage	n/a	Nikolas Pontikos
Linux server	n/a	Nikolas Pontikos
Luminescence counter	Cells	Amanda Carr
Luminometer	n/a	Lab managers
Machine learning/computational modelling	Humans, from infancy to old age	Tessa Dekker
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)	Humans, from infancy to old age	Tessa Dekker
Microinjection stations	Zebrafish	Ryan MacDonald
Microscopes	Cells	Lab managers
Microtome	n/a	Samanta Da Silva Fonseca, Lab managers
Nucleofector	n/a	Pedro Fale
OCT (Optical Coherence Thermography)	Animals, histology	Lab managers
PCR machines	Cells	Lab managers
Plate reader	Human, porcine, mouse/endothelial cells, RPE, eye	Maria Balda, Naheed Kanuga, Karl Matter
RETeval, LKC technologies	Hand-held devices that can be used to record the full-field human electroretinogram without the need for pharmacological pupil dilation, and with specialised skin electrodes	Omar Mahroo
Seahorse	Zebrafish, cells	Amanda Carr, Naheed Kanuga
SLO (Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope)	Animals, histology	Vy Luong
Tissue processor	n/a	Samanta Da Silva Fonseca
Two-photon microscopes	Mice	Charu Reddy
Ultramicrotome	Resin embedded electron microscopy samples	Clare Futter
Ussing chamber	Cells	Amanda Carr
Visual acuity, reading, contrast sensitivity tests	Humans - adults and children	Michael Crossland
Visual testing devices and equipment for measuring visual function	Humans	Andrew Stockman, Andrew Rider
Virtual and augmented reality	Humans, from infancy to old age	Tessa Dekker
Western blotting cells and protein dry transfer equipment	n/a	Lab managers

If you would like your expertise to be included please email Claire Roberts.