The School is located in the bioscience precinct on the St Lucia campus. It occupies four principal buildings: Otto Hirschfeld building (Anatomy & Developmental Biology); Skerman building (Pharmacology); and the MacGregor and Ritchie buildings (Physiology). The School has centralised facilities for confocal microscopy, histology, centrifugation, x-ray developing, spectrophotometry and phosphoimaging. One of its core facilities is the
Centre for Advanced Light Microscopy (CALM). The Scientific Officer in charge of this facility provides training to staff and students and is available for consultation in the planning and collection of imaging data. CALM provides imaging services for brightfield, epifluorescence and confocal microscopy as well as image analysis. The School’s Histology Unit is located on the 4
th floor of the Otto Hirschfeld building and provides access to and technical services for wax, plastic, frozen and epon sectioning as well as routine histochemical procedures. This facility has two Scientific Officers who provide expert assistance in all histology needs. Dispersed throughout the School are numerous core instrumentation rooms that provide access to commonly used pieces of equipment. All of the School’s animal housing needs are provided centrally by the UQ Biological Resources. The Faculty of Biological and Chemical Sciences also supports the
Transgenic Animal Service of Queensland which is a centralised facility that generates transgenic and knock-out mice for School staff. The School houses the Toxicology node of TetraQ, a UQ preclinical drug development service provider, directed by the School’s Chair of Molecular Pharmacology, Professor Rod Minchin. TetraQ is located in a state-of-the-art laboratory on the 5
th floor of the Skerman building.