Facilities

Our labs are located in the new Bioscience South building (E26) as well as the Samuels Building (F25), both at the UNSW upper campus, in close proximity to UNSW Medicine and UNSW Biological Sciences.

Our lab has dedicated in-house facilities for IC design and testing, and for neurobiology experiments:

Electronic design automation

  • Cadence Design Systems software (Virtuoso, Genus, Innovus, etc)

  • Siemens / Mentor Graphics IC design software (Calibre)

  • Dell PowerEdge T420 dual-Xeon server

  • Dell PowerEdge R640 dual-Xeon server

  • Dell Precision 5810 Xeon server

  • Dell Precision 5820 Xeon server

  • Dell X1052P 10GbE SFP+ network

  • Synology RackStation RS1619xs+ Xeon NAS

Microelectronics facilities

  • ESD-safe lab environment

  • PDR IR-E3 Infrared reflow & pick place machine

  • DDM Novastar GF-12HT conveyor reflow oven

  • Olympus SZ61 trinocular microscope

  • Nikon LV100 NDA dark field / polarising / interferometry microscope

  • Nikon DS-Fi3 & NIS-Elements

  • Nordson Ultimus high precision dispenser

  • Keysight MSOX4054 digital decoding mixed sig oscilloscope

  • Keysight MSOX3054T digital mixed sig oscilloscope

  • Keysight 33512B function generators

  • Keysight 34450A 5 1/2 digit multimeter

  • Keysight E3632A power supplies

  • Rohde & Schwarz ZNL vector network analyser

  • Rohde & Schwarz FPL1000 spectrum analyser

  • Rohde & Schwarz NGM200 power supply

  • Rohde & Schwarz NGP814 power supply

  • Hakko SMD soldering bench

  • Draper mechanical tools

  • TMC antivibration table + Faraday cage

  • Nikon FN-1 fixed-stage microscope with near-IR Dodt-gradient contrast

  • Epifluorescence imaging and Ca2+ imaging capability

  • Andor Zyla 4.2MP sCMOS camera

  • Nikon TE-2000 inverted microscope

  • Sutter motorised micromanipulators

  • Molecular Devices Multiclamp 700B amplifier, Digidata 1440A

  • Image projector and optics for visual neuroscience experiments

  • Live-tissue perfusion and temperature controller

  • Nikon SMZ745T microscope with WPI articulating arm

  • Kent Scientific SomnoSuite anaesthesia machine

OGTR PC1 neurobiology facilities

 

We also have access to shared facilities

  • Australian National Fabrication Facility (ANFF): UNSW node, USyd RPF, and ANU node

  • UNSW Biomedical Imaging Facility (BMIF).