Major facilities

Who are we?

The Macquarie Analytical & Fabrication Facility is comprised of six major units:

Australian Proteome Analysis Facility

APAF provides a range of services and cutting-edge instrumentation for protein and proteome analysis. APAF works with academic and industry researchers across the life-sciences domain, with a strong focus on biomedical, agriculture and food and analytical research sectors.

Microscopy Unit

The Microscopy Unit is a research and service based laboratory. Staff provide appropriate training, support and expertise to MQ staff and students (clients). The unit has a suite of electron and optical instruments with associated specimen preparation equipment.

Macquarie University Centre for Analytical Biotechnology

Our aim is to provide consultancy and analytical services in areas such as; Non-routine types of analysis, analytical method development, materials QA (e.g. Purity, performance and degradation), as well as routine analyses (such as elemental determination of samples).

NMR Facility

The NMR facility is focused on research support and teaching, however we also provide services to industrial clients, including chemical structure determination of organic molecules and proteins/biomolecules, purity determination and quality assurance and kinetics analysis.

Material Characterisation and Analysis Facility

The Material Characterisation and Analysis Facility supports research and teaching with specialist instrumentation and technical skills in the analysis of major elements, trace elements and isotopic ratios in situ and in solution.

Macquarie Engineering & Technical Services (METS)

The METS workshop is a scientific and engineering development facility which has broad experience in design, tooling and manufacturing, specialty design, analysis, fabrication, and developmental testing.