Research Facilities

Our School has excellent facilities for lab, field and farm-based research, including aquaria, aviaries and laboratories for conducting analyses in bioinformatics, cellular physiology, developmental biology, evolutionary biology, endocrinology, molecular ecology and physiological ecology.

We also benefit from a state of the art field research centre on Loch Lomond, as well as a University farm and research centre North of Glasgow. Additional specialist facilities are available through our collaborations with other institutes within the College.

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Research study systems

We have developed a suite of research study systems based at our campus and field-based facilities that can be used to address a number of fundamental & applied research questions

The outside of the SCENE facility at Loch Lomond

Scottish Centre for Ecology & the Natural Environment (SCENE)

Our state of the art field research & teaching station

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Aquaria & aviaries

On our central campus we have both seawater and freshwater aquaria and Home Office-designated facilities for holding other vertebrates

A tractor and farm building outside the Scottish Centre for Production Animal Health & Food Safety

Cochno Farm

The University's Quality Assured farm estate with facilities for research into animal health, nutrition, animal breeding & reproduction, and epidemiology

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Veterinary Diagnostic Services

VDS provides a comprehensive veterinary diagnostic service for companion animals.

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Glasgow Polyomics

University of Glasgow facility for analysis of genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, and metabolomes from any biological system

Additional facilities

Field Studies Council - Millport

Hunterian Zoology Museum

Bioelectronics Unit