HBBE Facilities
The HBBE is organised around state-of-the-art facilities, each representing a different scale of operation to the analysis and biological engineering conducted at the nano- scale in the Multi-Omics laboratory through to prototyping at building scale with the OME.
Workshop
Newcastle UniversityThis facility is designed as a bridge between our wet labs and dry construction. It contains both a wet fabrication space with a growing room and a suite of fabrication and material testing equipment including a Kuka robot arm, waterjet cutter, knitting machine and Instron as well as environment and weathering chambers.
Macro Bio-Design Lab
Newcastle UniversityDesigned as a flexible lab facility, the macro bio-design lab bridges between the micro bio-design lab and the OME workshop providing a fully functional microbiology facility to enable us to develop benchtop demonstrators and materials. The lab includes imaging facilities and incubation as well as basic fabrication capabilities with 3D printers.
Multi-Omics Laboratory
Northumbria UniversityThis flagship facility has state-of- the-art instrumentation to study biological systems at the molecular level. The laboratory contains genomics technologies from Illumina (MiSeq x2, NextSeq x3), Pacific BioSciences (Sequel) and Oxford Nanopore (GridION), supported by Hamilton and Tecan liquid handling, and proteomics and metabolomics instruments from Thermo Scientific (QExactive Plus and ID-X Tribrid Orbitrap Mass Spectrometers).
Micro Bio-Design Lab
Northumbria UniversityThis multi-user biosciences laboratory can accommodate up to twenty-four researchers, with connected offices for three associated principal investigators. It is supported by dedicated equipment for microbial propagation, DNA amplification and analysis, centrifugation, spectrophotometry, freeze-drying, water purification, electroporation, ultra-sonication and safe sample storage and handling.