as you might have seen, the BBSRC has just announced a
dedicated call for instrumentation to be deployed on a
multi-project/multi-use basis (see below) - an
excellent opportunity to upgrade our facility to respond to
your latest needs. The funding (£250-750k) would cover one
new bit of high-end equipment, so we need to decide where
strongest needs will be in the coming years.
That's where your input is needed: Please let me know what
kind of experiments you would like to do in the future that
you can't do currently in FILM, where major investment would
make a big difference to your research. Ideas put
up before were a commercial
super-resolution microscope, high-throughput
microscope, dedicated intravital microscope - but feedback on
any unmet needs is appreciated.
The deadline is soon and it's a busy time of the year, so please let me know within a week
what your thoughts are (please reply to me personally, not the
whole mailing list).
Looking forward to your input, good imaging,
Martin
From:
<Nadal>, Rebecca C <r.nadal@imperial.ac.uk>
Date: Wednesday, 29 May 2013 15:32
Subject: BBSRC Advanced Life Sciences
Research Technologies initiative (ALERT 13) -
research equipment call
Dear
all,
I
can confirm that the BBSRC capital equipment call
has now gone live, please see
http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/opportunities/2013/alert13.aspx
for full details. The closing date for
applications is
4pm on 23 July 2013.
BBSRC
are inviting applications for research grants from
eligible researchers with a strong track record
of research in the BBSRC remit, to purchase
items of
advanced research equipment via this
Advanced Life Sciences Research Technology 2013
(ALERT 13) call. The capital equipment budget for
this call is approximately £8M.
Applications
for equipment funding, which will typically be in
the range of £250k-£750k excl. VAT although higher
value applications will be considered with prior
agreement, and must enhance the capability of the
UK research base in areas of science in the BBSRC
remit. Applications will typically be from groups
of researchers in one or more eligible
institutions, for
instrumentation to be deployed on a
multi-project/multi-use basis.
When
BBSRC recently visited they indicated that they
would like to see some degree of coordination of
bids by universities, but the details of this
internal coordination are still to be confirmed.
I’m guessing that a number of applicants may have
already started preparing bids following the
pre-announcement that you received directly from
BBSRC and/or from me. Please feel free to forward
as appropriate, and for now please encourage any
potential applicants to contact me (r.nadal@imperial.ac.uk)
to alert me about their bid.
Many
thanks.
Best
wishes,
Becky.
Dr
Rebecca Nadal
Strategic
Research Coordinator
Faculty
of Natural Sciences
Imperial
College London
South
Kensington Campus
London
SW7 2AZ
Email:
r.nadal@imperial.ac.uk
Tel: 020
7594 8909
Mobile:
07714 051234