Facilities

As one of Australia’s leading universities, UQ offers the latest equipment in some of the world’s finest research facilities.  Major government and corporate investment in infrastructure at UQ provides students with cutting-edge teaching and research resources. Students have access to excellent facilities in computer-based learning laboratories, practical laboratories, teaching museums and libraries.

The Faculty has a program to maintain and enhance the equipment and infrastructure required for discovery science. This is particularly important with respect to enabling technologies, such as bioinformatics and structural biology, which underpin research across our research themes.  The Faculty also has close associations with four major research institutes at UQ through affiliate appointments, joint operation of equipment and facilities, and a variety of collaborative projects. The institutes include

Australian Institute for Bioengineering & Nanotechnology
The Institute for Molecular Bioscience
The Queensland Brain Institute
Diamantina Institute or Cancer, Immunology & Metabolic Medicine

Field Stations

Heron Island Research Station, the largest research station on the Great Barrier Reef
Moreton Bay Research Station
Low Isles Research Station situated on the inner northern Great Barrier Reef
Pinjarra Aquatic Research Station

Boating & Diving

All Boating and Diving activities undertaken by University of Queensland staff and students are coordinated by the Centre for Marine studies and the UQ Boating and Diving officer.

Central Glasshouse Services Unit

The Central Glasshouse Services Unit (CGSU) is a University facility managed by the Faculty of Biological & Chemical Sciences on behalf of NRAVS & BACS Faculties.

The CGSU provides a range of centralised plant growing facilities using Quarantine, PC2, temperature controlled and evaporative cooled glasshouses as well as services associated with the growing of plants.

The benefits of a centralised plant growing facility are:

• Cost effective delivery of plant growing facilities close to teaching and research Schools.
• A centralised point for the management and compliance of statutory regulations for PC2 and quarantine glasshouses.
• Plant material can easily be transferred between teaching & research laboratories and the CGSU.
• Lower infrastructure maintenance costs to the University.

The CGSU underpins many undergraduate and postgraduate teaching & research activities for Schools within the BACS and NRAVS Faculties as well as provides facilities and services for numerous research projects in collaboration with or funded by, a wide range of external organisations, eg CSIRO, NuPlant and QDPI.

More information on CGSU services & facilities.