Labs and research facilities

We have state-of-the-art laboratories equipped for protein crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy and tomography, confocal microscopy, biophysics, spectroscopy, molecular biology, synthetic and analytical chemistry and microbiology:

• Conservation and Art Preservation Lab
• Crystallography Computer Support Group
• Electron Microscopy and Image processing
• ISMB Biophysics Centre
• ISMB Microbiology Research Unit
• Confocal micropsopy at the ISMB
• Rayne and Wolfson Laboratory
• Rosalind Franklin Molecular Biology Laboratory
• Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew: partnership
• Spectroscopy Laboratory
• X-Ray Crystallography

Through our close connection with the Institute for Structural Molecular Biology (ISMB), students are able to access a still wider range of equipment on the UCL campus including protein nanoelectrospray mass spectrometry and protein NMR.