Adaptability with Accessibility, The Microscopy Innovation Centre at King's College London

Session

Poster Session Two

Authors

Dr Nicholas Anthony (1), Dr Dylan Herzog (1), Dr Ani Augustine Jose (1), Dr Susan Cox (1), Prof Simon Ameer-Beg (1), Prof Maddy Parsons (1)

Affiliations

1. King's College London

Keywords

Facility, microscopy, advanced, home-built

Abstract text

Advanced microscopy techniques are fundamentally important to our continued understanding of biological processes and systems. However, cutting-edge microscope methods at the forefront of physics have significant barriers to their broad uptake. Namely they are often complicated to construct, have specific sample requirements, require ongoing maintenance, and consequently need hands-on user support and guidance.

The Microscopy Innovation Centre is a core facility that collaborates with academic and industrial partners to develop and house advanced microscopy instrumentation and analysis tools, offering cutting-edge microscopes to support users in their advanced imaging needs. Our vision is to be a hub for innovative microscopy, offering a comprehensive suite of advanced imaging techniques and analysis tools to the research community. By working with our research user base and strategic industry partners, we aim to build a world-class, unique facility that delivers advanced, non-commercial imaging solutions to the life science community to drive new discoveries in biomedical research.

Here we present a general overview of the Microscopy Innovation Centre, a new core facility at King’s College London containing largely home-built systems. We cover the challenges of supporting an advanced microscopy facility, as well as elaborating on examples of projects, systems, and developments that have been enabled by this platform. 

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