Microscopy

Advanced Microscopy Facility

Advanced Microscopy Facility

The $10m Electron Microscopy Unit and clean room is a key facility designed for physical sciences, life sciences and engineering applications. The unit is equipped with five state-of-the-art electron microscopes, available to academic and industry users on a fee for use basis.

Advanced Microscopy Facility at MBC Parkville

A Core facility of the Melbourne Brain Centre at Parkville . We provide access optical microscopy including bright field and fluorescence microscope, live cell microscopy (both wide-field and confocal), TIRF and confocal microscopy. As well as specialised stereology and neuron tracing work stations.

The facility also has state of the art facilities for image analysis, deconvolution and 3D rendering and animation (including  Amira, Huygens and Metamorph Software).

AAHL Biosecurity Microscopy Facility (ABMF)

AAHL Biosecurity Microscopy Facility (ABMF)

The AAHL Biosecurity Microscopy Facility is a national diagnostic and research facility specialising in viral identification, characterisation and microscopy of infectious diseases.

RMIT Microscopy & Microanalysis Facility

RMIT Microscopy & Microanalysis Facility

Provides high quality electron microscopy and microanalysis facilities for research and teaching throughout RMIT University and provides access for external users. The Microscopy & Microanalysis Facility is a linked laboratory of the  Australian Microscopy and Microanalysis Research Facility.

La Trobe Microscopy

La Trobe Microscopy

La Trobe Microscopy, a network of microscopist with key expertise and cutting edge technology in the areas of Histology, Optical and Confocal Microscopy, Atomic Force Microscopy and Electron Microscopy including Sample Preparation at cryo and room temperature and Image Analysis.

Australian Phenomics Network, Histopathology and Organ Pathology Node

Australian Phenomics Network, Histopathology and Organ Pathology Node

The APN Histopathology and Organ Pathology service helps researchers across Australia in whole organ and histological analysis of mouse models and mice at specific developmental stages. Staff providing the service have extensive histology, diagnostic and electronic imaging experience.

Cell Physiology, Histology and Imaging

Cell Physiology, Histology and Imaging

The platform provides for electrophysiological investigation by sharp electrode and patch-clamp recordings. Imaging includes 3 confocal microscopes, laser microdissection, conventional multi-wavelength fluorescence and high resolution white light microscopy.

Electron Microscopy

Electron Microscopy

Expertise and knowledge in all aspects of conventional electron microscopy (TEM and SEM) and sample preparation in the biological, medical and diagnostic fields.

Centre for Dynamic Imaging (CDI)

Centre for Dynamic Imaging (CDI)

WEHI’s imaging facility offers researchers access to state-of-the-art equipment and gives guidance and training to researchers in advanced optical imaging techniques.

Australian Synchrotron

The Australian Synchrotron is a source of highly intense light ranging from infrared to hard x-rays used for a wide variety of research purposes. Officially opened in July 2007, the Australian Synchrotron is one of fewer than 40 similar facilities around the world. It is the largest stand-alone piece of [...]

MHTP High Content Screening Facility

High content screening is a sophisticated, state-of-the-art method used to identify modulations of cell biology and develop new therapeutics. The new High Content Cell Discovery and Screening Facility (HCSF) based at MIMR combines the advantages of high content screening with the development of genome-wide RNAi libraries and robotics to facilitate [...]

Pathology (Peter Mac)

This NATA accredited facility offers immunohistochemistry, biomarker validation, flow cytometry, blood morphology, tissue microarrays, human pathology opinion, analysis of methylation and molecular pathology testing as well as standard haematological and biochemical laboratory services. Access by: Research collaboration. Fee for service.

Neuro Research Services

Neuro Research Services provides academic and industry researchers access to a comprehensive rodent neuro-phenotyping facility. Behavioural equipment, including video tracking software systems, enables the assessment of rodent motor function, memory, learning, addiction, anxiety, depression and nociception. This is complemented by neuro-histology and an advanced microscopy service that enables the full [...]

HTCS (High-throughput Chemical Screening) Facility

The HTCS Facility houses a Lead Discovery library currently containing ~200,000 compounds and robotics platforms to screen these small molecule chemical entities against biological targets of interest for drug discovery or for chemical biology outcomes. It has two core automation systems, the Hamilton MicroSTAR and PerkinElmer Minitrak IX systems as [...]

ACRF Victorian Centre for Functional Genomics in Cancer

A member of the RNAi Global Initiative, the Functional Genomics Group at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre is open to the Australian medical research community for the purpose of providing access to both small interfering (siRNA) and lentiviral-based short hairpin RNAi (shRNAmir) gene knockdown screens for functional genomics studies.

Monash Micro Imaging

Monash Micro Imaging is a microscopy and imaging research support facility located at Monash University. MMI staff have a considerable breadth of expertise in microscopy and imaging techniques and use of all the equipment in the facility. This expertise is available on a Consultation collaborative basis.  Please contact us for [...]

Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication

The purpose of the MCN is to fill the gap in Australia for open access, multi-scale fabrication infrastructure, spanning a range of fabrication environments and materials. MCN will provide the means to produce complex micro and nano-science based demonstration devices using an array of tools. MCN will comprise biological and [...]

Burnet Cell Imaging Facility

The Burnet Live Cell Imaging facility provides two high-end microscopes located in physical containment level 2 (PC2) and level 3 (PC3) laboratories, which allow the imaging of live cells infected with pathogens such as Human Immunodeficiency Virus (PC3) , Hepatitis C Virus and malaria parasites (PC2).

MIMR Micro Imaging

The Micro Imaging Facility is a microscopy and imaging research support facility located at Monash Institute for Medical Research. We provide Consultation, instrumentation, services and training, collaborative research and project development in the areas of: Optical and fluorescence microscopy Confocal microscopy Live cell imaging Transmission electron microscopy Scanning electron microscopy Cryo [...]

Microplatforms Research Group

The Microplatforms Research Group exploits the current revolution in accessible micro-technology to create platforms which enable fundamental research across all fields of science; achieve breakthroughs in important problems; and harness discoveries to create practical new technology. Our multi-disciplinary capabilities and wealth of practical experience at the micro-scale enables us collaborate with researches from diverse scientific disciplines to create unique platforms that are tailored to address important academic problems drawn from all fields of research.