Each partner runs specialist facilities into which all MIBTP students will be welcome for discussions, joint projects and tuition. Openness and collaboration between our Institutions enables cross-partner access to state-of-the-art facilities including:

• The £6M Cryo-EM at the University of Leicester
• An £8M 1GHz NMRLink opens in a new window spectrometer at the University of Birmingham
• An £8M Centre for Human Brain Health,Link opens in a new window including a £1.5M MRI scannerLink opens in a new window at the University of Birmingham
• A £0.7M 3-D cellular imaging systemLink opens in a new window at the University of Warwick
• The Advanced Imaging Facility (AIF), SuperRAMP Microscope, Electron Microscopy Facility and Histology facility at the University of Leicester
• The £1.2M high performance mass spectrometryLink opens in a new window at the University of Birmingham
• A £2M multi-omics facility with state-of-the-art mass spectrometers for proteomics, metabolomics and microbiomics equipment (at BirminghamLink opens in a new window and Leicester)
• A £5M plant phytobiology facilityLink opens in a new window at the University of Warwick
• A 494-hectare farmLink opens in a new window with over 390 dairy cows, 230 sows, 2 sheep flocks and an intensive beef unit at Harper Adams. The £2 million, leading-edge dairy unit has a 40-point internal rotary milking parlour and a computerised system for identifying cows and recording milk yields. Up to 24 hectares of grass and arable areas are devoted to staff and student research projects and trials.

MIBTP research will be assisted by high performance computer clusters that are used for large dataset analysis. Core shared facilities include:

• The Systems Analytic Research InstituteLink opens in a new window at Aston University
• The Warwick Systems Biology CentreLink opens in a new window 
• The Birmingham Bioinformatics & Health Data Science
• The Aston Cluster of Excellence in Biomolecular ComputationLink opens in a new window
• The SAPPHIRE centreLink opens in a new window at the University of Leicester
• The Zeeman InstituteLink opens in a new window for Systems Biology & Infectious Disease Epidemiology Research (UoW)

In addition to research hardware, there are a multitude of specialist workshops and learned society meetings arranged by and hosted at our institutions, providing both intellectual stimulation and professional internship opportunities for our cohort. For example, The Chemistry and Biology of Natural Products Symposium is in its eighth year and is run for and by PhD students with some PDRA assistance. Collaborative strength in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytical approaches is demonstrated by the presence of Alan Turing Institute for Data Science Fellows at the University of WarwickLink opens in a new window, University of BirminghamLink opens in a new window and the University of LeicesterLink opens in a new window.

The University of Leicester also have a full database of their equipment.