BGS Marine Operations is a marine engineering facility that provides sampling and sensing equipment to investigate seabed and sub-seabed geology and processes. The equipment includes 2 types of remote seafloor corer / drill:

• RD2: The BGS Remote Drill Two, RD2, is our most advanced seafloor robotic drilling and coring system. It can penetrate up to 50m below the seabed and operate down to water depths of 4000m. RD2 can drill and core a wide variety of lithologies ranging from consolidated...

The Rock Mechanics and Physics Laboratory (RMPL) undertakes research on the physical properties and behaviour of rock specifically for: planning, design and construction within the civil engineering sector; extraction and storage within the energy sector; developing our understanding of near to surface to shallow crustal earth processes in order to help predict and mitigate the effects of small and large scale geohazards. The RMPL lab specialises in standard (ISRM and ASTM) and bespoke...

The UK Biochar Research Centre (UKBRC) undertakes disciplinary and interdisciplinary research on: (1) Biochar production and analysis of energy rich co-products; (2) The diverse potential applications of biochar; particularly as a beneficial soil amendment, as well as other uses; (3) The feasible development of Pyrolysis-Biochar systems and Life Cycle Assessments for sustainable resource management. The facility contains four major instruments for the pyrolysis and characterisation of biochar...

The biological mass spectrometry suite provides analytical expertise and practical support for academic (internal and external) and industrially funded research using high-end advanced analytical instrumentation. The facility has a range of liquid and gas chromatographs hyphenated with various mass spectrometers (LCMS and GCMS). Each instrument is dedicated to either proteomics (targeted, shotgun and non-labelled quantitation) or metabolomics (targeted/ untargeted metabolite profiling...

The Biomedical Imaging Unit is a joint University of Southampton (UoS)/ University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust (UHS) facility for diagnostic and research microscopy. The BIU houses microscopes capable of 2-, 3- and 4D imaging (from brightfield microscopy through to confocal, light sheet, time lapse, virtual scanning, µCT, SEM, TEM & serial block face SEM) using a range of imaging sources (light, x-ray and electron). We are the only joint NHS/University imaging facility in the...

The NMR facility provides research infrastructure and expertise primarily for projects related to biomacromolecules and their binding partners. Mostly supporting the various users from the Departments across the University, the facility is also open to external users from academia and industry. The majority of the work in the facility is done on a collaborative basis and support is adjusted according to the requirements of the users. The facility has three spectrometers that are operating at 800...

What it does: BioPilotsUK is a distributed infrastructure providing access to key hardware, skills and knowhow, for both industrial and academic R&D to aid innovation and de-risk the development of bio-based products and processes. Research Goals etc: • Provide simple-to-access responsive support to academia and businesses to accelerate innovative growth in the UK bioeconomy. • To assist UK industry realise potential investments in biobased research and innovation and bring new products to...

The Biorenewables Development Centre (BDC) is a an open-access R&D centre, based at the University of York, working at the interface between academia and industry to convert plants, microbes and biowastes into profitable biorenewable products.

The Bioscience Technology Facility (BTF) provides access to technology and research services for the biosciences. This unique facility allows ready access to a wide range of technologies and expertise in an integrated manner that can help drive forward your research efficiently and cost effectively. The BTF is one coherent set of core labs which include Imaging and Cytometry, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Metabolomics and Proteomics, Molecular Interactions and Biophysics, and Protein Production...

Providing the research community with access to a range of resources for the genetic transformation of crops and genome editing; such as the development of new targeted gene knockout resources: CRISPR/Cas9 technology; Training facilities: hosting visitors for hands-on training at the John Innes Centre; Constructs: developed specifically for Brassica, Wheat and Barley - the pBRACT series of vectors