Stem Cell and Molecular Physiology Laboratory
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Team Leaders: Daniele Torella and Georgina Ellison Post-Doctoral Fellows: Cheryl Waring, Rajni Sudhir Students: Angela Papalamprou, Saranya Purushothaman |
This basic science laboratory occupies approx. 120 sq metres and is equipped for a programme to study stem cell biology and regenerative therapy. The laboratory houses specialist equipment enabling the execution of its programme, including new up-to-date cell culture facilities, Inverted cell microscope and real-time cell imaging software and analysis suite, Miltenyi Biotec cell sorter, Quantitative RT-PCR, ChemiDoc Imaging system, centrifuges, Cytospin, fridges and freezers, a light and immunofluorescence microscope, computer workstations with image analysis software, standard wet laboratory equipment, etc.
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The laboratory is also a primary provider and priority user of the Faculty of Science, Microscopy Shared Research Facility which houses a 4-channel UV confocal scanning microscope for high resolution imaging of cells and tissue sections, computers, cooled CCD digital cameras and digital deconvolution system. Also within this unit is a live-cell imaging microscopy system, which is equipped with a heated enclosed CO2 environment and long working distance objectives for long-term time-lapse experiments for both phase contrast and fluorescence imaging of cell kinetics.
