Facilities & Support Services

The UQDI provides high quality, leading technologies for researchers to pursue their research questions. Facilities are also staffed with expert staff to ensure professional support, training and consultation to ensure researchers remain focussed on their goals rather than distracted by technical problems.

The Australian Cancer Research Foundation has generously supported the UQDI by providing funding to equip the UQDI with leading technologies in cancer research.

Facilities & Support Services section

Pre-clinical Imaging The UQDI offers researchers access to a variety of pre-clinical imaging modalities. The Biological Resources Facility is equipped with a Kodak FX in vivo multispectral imaging system and a GE P...
Genetic and Genomic Facility The UQDI is home to the UQ Centre for Clinical Genomics, the most sophisticated and largest human genomic facility in the southern hemisphere. The Centre undertakes cutting-edg...
Biological Research Facility The Biological Research Facility (BRF) houses breeding and experimental colonies of rodents in specialised zones to ensure quality animal-based research. A full health barrier excludes pathogenic organisms and ensures that the animals are of the hig...
Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics UQDI has a state-of-the-art Agilent 6520 Chip-CUBE-QTOF run online with 1200 HPLC in a nanoflow mode for sensitive identification of protein and peptide samples. Sample separation is usuall...
Bioinformatics The UQDI has a diverse range of bioinformatics resources supported by staff adept at applying bioinformatics tools and algorithms and routinely developing new algorithms and methods to enable biolo...
Scientific Computing The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) unit provides a central resource to support the network of IT infrastructure and computers available to UQDI scientists and students. Support is also provided for the computation requirements assoc...
Microscopy Facility The UQDI has outstanding microscopy facilities including transmitted light and fluorescence microscopy (Nikon Brightfield, Zeiss Axiovert 40, Zeiss Axioskop 2 plus and Zeiss Apotome ImageZ1)...
Flow Cytometry Facility The UQDI Flow Cytometry Facility houses a MoFlo high speed cell sorter, Becton Deckinson FACSCanto and Beckman Gallios analysers, and a Becton Dickinson FACSArray together with dedicated off-line ...
Laboratory Facilities All laboratory facilities are provided with a comprehensive suite of supporting laboratory infrastructure to assist UQDI scientists and students achieve their research potentials. Fully equ...
Support Services ICT Support: The ICT Unit provides hardware and software configuration and an extensive and speedy repair service for Apple and Windows computers. The department also deals with network installation and management and offers general comput...