Research

The veterinary laboratory services team is involved in various research projects within the University and beyond and welcome further internal and external collaboration and service provision.

  • We offer technical support as a service without interpretation
  • We can also provide a full package (technical and interpretation). For a full package, results can be provided on a collaborative basis (technical costs only) or via a full service (technical costs and academic professional charges apply)
  • For large projects we strongly suggest our involvement at the study design/grant submission phase.

Our expertise

We can over the following expertise.

Veterinary pathology

  • Necropsy and histomorphological characterisation of experimental animal models
  • Evaluation of tissue injury with semiquantitative scoring and/or quantitative digital image analysis (IA) on whole slide section
  • Optimisation of immunohistological protocols on animal tissues and cell cultures, including double staining
  • Quantification of immunohistochemical expression of markers with semiquantitative scoring and/or digital image analysis (IA) on whole slide scans including double stains
  • Ultrastructural analysis of tissue and cell cultures.

Veterinary microbiology

  • Bacterial culture and susceptibility testing
  • Determination of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration
  • Bacterial identification by MALDI-TOF
  • Fungal identification by MALDI-TOF
  • PCR testing for various infectious agents.

Research collaboration

To discuss a research collaboration please contact the relevant person below.

Histolog, histopathology and immunohistology

Electron microscopy

Microbiology

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