Facilities

Location

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We are based almost wholly at the University’s King’s Buildings campus, about 15 minutes by bus from the city centre. 

All postgraduate research students are given their own desk space in shared student offices.

You can take advantage of: 

• Noreen and Kenneth Murray Library, named after the pioneers of the first genetically engineered hepatitis B vaccine
• Learning and Teaching Cluster
• Social and sports facilities at King's Buildings House.

Life at Edinburgh

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Cutting edge equipment and facilities

We offer an environment that boasts cutting-edge equipment and facilities to encourage research excellence and innovation:

• Microscopy facilities house state-of-the-art widefield and confocal fluorescence, and transmission and scanning electron microscopes.
• Flow cytometry facilities offer cutting-edge analytical and sorting capabilities.
• Protein production and biophysical characterisation facilities, including surface plasmon resonance, ITC and spectroscopic equipment. 
• More than 1,000m2 of controlled environment growth space and glasshouse space
• Computing resources for evolutionary biology, including four dedicated computer clusters for phyloinformatics, comparative genomics, population genetics and quantitative trait locus genetics.
• Edinburgh Genomics sequencing service plays host to the National Environment Research Council National Sequencing Facility and Medical Research Council Hub Facility.