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 NMR spectrometer at the University of Birmingham (due 2020)
• An £8M Centre for Human Brain Health, including a £1.5M MRI scanner at the University of Birmingham
• A £0.7M 3-D cellular imaging system at the University of Warwick
• The £0.6M super-resolution multi-photon and dSTORM imaging system at the University of Leicester
• The £1.2M high performance mass spectrometry at the University of Birmingham
• A £2M multi-omics facility with state-of-the-art mass spectrometers for proteomics, metabolomics and microbiomics equipment (at Birmingham and Leicester)
• A £5M plant phytobiology facility at the University of Warwick
• A 635 hectare farm with over 390 dairy cows, 230 sows, 70,000 hens, 2 sheep flocks and a large beef unit, which is a key national resource for livestock research, at Harper Adams.

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 Institute at Aston University
• The Warwick Systems Biology Centre 
• The Birmingham Centre for Computational Biology
• The Aston Cluster of Excellence in Biomolecular Computation
• The SAPPHIRE centre at the University of Leicester
• The Zeeman Institute 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 Warwick, University of Birmingham and the University of Leicester.