Biosciences

Facilities

Biosciences is located across four buildings on Streatham Campus: the Geoffrey Pope Building, Hatherly Building, the BioEconomy Centre and the Sir Steve Smith Building, home to the £52m Living Systems Institute.

Detailed access information is available on the AccessAble website.

 

Geoffrey Pope building

The Geoffrey Pope Building is the central hub of Biosciences. Following a £25m refurbishment, the building provides world-class research and teaching facilities with over 4,800m2 of lab space and our state-of-the-art Millhayes teaching laboratory. It is also home to the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology.

Facilities include:

Aquatic Resources Centre

Aquatic centre

Incorporating 14 aquaria rooms and an imaging unit.

Bioimaging
Centre

Close up scanned image of an aphid

Optical, laser and electron microscopes for advanced cellular imaging techniques.

Centre for
Cytomics

A researcher in the cytomics lab looking at a computer screen

Innovative cytometry technologies including cutting-edge single-cell analysis and cell sorting, multiplexing, data science and drug discovery.

DNA Sequencing
Facility

A researcher wearing a lab coat using a sequencing machine

State-of-the-art genomics and bioinformatics analysis.

Greenhouse and plant growth facilities

A student wearing a lab coat, making observations in the greenhouse

Enabling propagation and growth of high-quality plant material.

Mass Spectrometry Facility

High performance liquid chromatography system

Housing liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry instruments