The Space Sciences Lab has two Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) instruments, one using Optimal Emission Spectroscopy (ICP-OES) and one using Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS). Both instruments use a peristaltic pump and quartz nebulizer for sample introduction. The instruments are able to analyze up to 70 elements in aqueous solutions (dilute nitric or hydrochloric acid). Common applications are analyzing the chemical composition of geologic samples (rocks, sediments, meteorites, water), but we can also analyze the composition of man-made materials like metals, alloys, silicon chips.

Space Sciences Lab has a Tescan Vega XM3 Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) with integrated EDS microanalysis system (Oxford Instruments). The SEM has a large chamber to scan samples up to 20 cm x 20 cm. The instrument has low vacuum capability, allowing for imaging and microanalysis of non-conductive samples without applying surface coatings.

The Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Berkeley operates a premier Autonomous Vehicle (AV) test track and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) laboratory, located at the Richmond Field Station. This facility serves as a critical proving ground for the future of mobility, bridging the gap between digital twin simulation and public road deployment. At the core of the facility is a fully connected smart intersection, instrumented to rigorous Caltrans standards.

The BIDMap Crystalline Materials Facility provides automated sample handling and powder X-ray diffraction analysis for porous materials research. The facility features SBS-format plate   handling systems, controlled incubation environments, powder diffraction capabilities, and advanced gas sorption instrumentation. The facility supports structural characterization, phase identification, and stability studies of porous materials through standardized protocols for sample preparation and analytical measurement.

The Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) Histopathology Core supports histological analy

The Center for CRISPR Target Discovery (CCTD) provides comprehensive support for functional genomic experiments using CRISPR technology, including pooled library cloning and screening in mammalian cell cultures to identify gene targets for therapeutic development.

The College of Chemistry Glass Shop produces custom glassware for research. Services include design, consulting on glassware systems, and custom glassware fabrication, with experience in producing glass apparatus for physics, chemistry, materials engineering, and other research focuses.

Equipment includes glassblowing lathes, torches, kiln, diamond saw and other glass coldworking equipment.

The PEER Lab is located at the Richmond Field Station and has a long history of successfully providing the engineering community testing facilities, the staffing expertise to execute a given project, and the academic background to provide appropriate data analysis, design input and overall project management. The PEER-UC Berkeley Lab is available to write both academic style reports, along with AC156 and IEEE-693 reports submitted to regulatory agencies. 

The College of Natural Resources' Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) Spectroscopy Facility has a Perkin Elmer 5300 DV optical emission ICP with auto sampler.  The ICP can measure up to at least 21 different elements simultaneously. Users should estimate between 6 and 12 samples per hour plus a half hour warm up of the instrument.  Applications include plant elemental analysis, soil extracts, silicon chip analysis, nanoparticles, rock fusions to name just a few. 

The Earth and Planetary Sciences XRD, SEM, and Sample Preparation Labs provide users the opportunity to perform a wide range of analyses on samples including X-ray powder diffraction, SEM imaging, and EBSD textural analysis, EDS chemical analysis as well as all sample preparation required for analysis. 

Equipment includes: 

QB3 Genomics is a partnership between the Vincent J. Coates Genomics Sequencing Lab ( GSL – B206 Stanley Hall), the Functional Genomics Laboratory (FGL – 255 Weill Hall, formerly LSA), and the Computational Genomics Resources Facility (CGRL – 238 Koshland Hall). QB3 Genomics’ mission is to make genomics research tractable and affordable to UC Berkeley and the greater genomics community.

The Archaeological Research Facility (ARF) is a hub for archaeologists and archaeology-related research at UC Berkeley. They have field and lab instruments available for on and off-campus researchers on a recharge basis. They also offer workshops on the use of these instruments. Their field instruments include near-surface geophysical sensors (GPR, gradiometry, and resistivity), mapping devices (RTK GNSS, total stations, GIS software, 3d scanners), and photography (UAV, cameras, pole and kite photography systems).

Greenhouse, growth chamber, lath house, and field space for plant and environmental science research. Resources include mist propagation beds and rooms, work space, supplemental lighting, and biosafety, temperature, and lighting controls. Experienced staff provides horticultural consultation, supplies, plant monitoring and watering, and pest control. The facility is available to UC Berkeley and LBL affiliates and, on a limited basis, to outside users.

Provides all services related to the X-ray diffraction of single crystals and powders of small molecule compounds. Typically, X-ray diffraction is used to determine the solid-state molecular structure at the atomic level of crystalline samples, including absolute stereochemistry of chiral compounds. The facility currently houses state-of-the-art single crystal and powder X-ray diffractometers.

The Energy & Biosciences Institute, located in Koshland Hall, provides access to instrumentation including mass spectrometry, high throughput liquid handling device, various chromatorgraphy applications, and fermentation.

The Microanalytical Facility provides Elemental Analysis. Elemental analysis is a process where a sample of the some material (e.g. soil, water ,polymers, minerals, chemical compounds) is analyze for their chemical composition.  There are a several analytical instruments in the facility:

The Berkeley Seismological Laboratory conducts essential research on earthquakes and solid earth processes while collecting and delivering high quality geophysical data. We provide robust and real-time earthquake and hazard information on Northern California earthquakes, in collaboration with our partners. We enable the broad consumption of earthquake information by the general public while educating and training students at all levels.

The UC Berkeley Small Molecule Drug Discovery Center’s main goal is to support translational research by providing access to a library of over 100,000 small molecule and natural product compounds and expertise in assay development. It supports compound storage, dispensing, sample management and execution of screens using a variety of readouts (absorbance, fluorescence, luminescence, imaging-based) for biochemical and cell-based assays as well as automation for following up on interesting hits in dose response to find useful compounds for discovery and human trials.

The MGCF is a research resource in computational chemistry and scientific visualization for over 50 research groups in the College of Chemistry and the wider campus community. We provide high-performance computing resources for research and educational uses in chemistry and related disciplines.

On-Call Glass Washers/Laboratory Helpers are deployed to five buildings across campus on a recharge basis to replace career Laboratory Assistants who are on leave or vacation.

Provides bacterial, yeast, C. elegans (worms), Drosophila, or any specialty media you have a protocol for on a recharge basis to over 20 labs on campus and at LBNL.

The Cell Culture Facility, located in 336 Barker Hall, supports research by providing cell cultures (mammalian and insect), media, supplies and expertise on a recharge basis for more than 70 different laboratories on and off the main campus. The Facility provides cell cultures for researchers to take to their labs for experiments, provides media and materials for checkout, and also allows use of laminar flow hoods, incubators and microscope for researchers who are using cells provided by the Facility, to use on site. We also work with off-site companies.

This facility has generated hundreds of transgenic mice and made numerous gene-targeted mice. Recently the facility has shifted to using Cas9/CRISPR-mediated gene targeting as this offers the ability to produce gene-targeted mice with unprecedented speed and ease.

The High-Throughput Screening Facility (HTSF), located in the Li Ka Shing Center, provides access to cell culturing space, automated liquid handling, automated plate reader and high-throughput, high-content microscopy instrumentation for screening experiments, along with tools for analysis and data visualization.

Serves all UC affiliated laboratories, academic institutions, government agencies and commercial businesses – providing Sanger sequencing, genotyping, high-throughput nucleic acid purification/quantification, PCR reaction cleanup, PCR products size selection, human cell line authentication, stem cell validation, and free (and paid) consultation services. Open access (for a fee) instruments include: Bio-Rad CFX96 Touch Real Time PCR System, Bio-Rad QX200 Droplet Digital PCR System, and an Agilent Technologies TapeStation 4200. 

The Marvell NanoLab, located in the CITRIS headquarters building, Sutardja Dai Hall, includes more than 15,000 sq feet of Class100 and Class1000 cleanroom. The Marvell NanoLab is a shared research center providing more than 100 Principal Investigators and over 500 academic and industrial researchers a complete set of micro- and nano-fabrication tools. Please contact us if you are an academic or industrial researcher interested in the capabilities of the Marvell NanoLab.

US, CT, MRI, EchoMRI (mouse fat-water measurement), X-ray irradiator.

The Cal-Cryo facility, housed in the basement of Stanley Hall, is led by Professors Eva Nogales and James Hurley and began operations in February 2018. Our facility is used to collect image data of biological or soft material samples before it is processed using single particle or tomographic reconstruction methods Our staff offer consultation and training in specimen preparation, microscope operation, image acquisition, and data analysis. The facility’s instrumentation features automated data collection. Both single-particle micrographs and tomography tilt series can be collected.

A state-of-the-art light microscopy facility specializing in live and fixed cell imaging. Specializes in Widefield, Spinning-Disk Confocal, Laser Scanning Confocal, Deconvolution and Super-Resolution fluorescence microscopy. Also advanced software for image analysis and presentation (Imaris, HuygensPro), as well as microtechnique (both paraffin/plastic and cryotomy) equipment and training.

The Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center's MRI facility houses an actively-shielded 3 Tesla Siemens Prisma scanner. The 64-channel console is equipped with 20-, 32- and 64-channel receive-only head coils, small and large flex coils, and spine/body matrix coils. The scanner is capable of high-performance EPI for fMRI, diffusion imaging, perfusion imaging, high resolution anatomical scanning and a wide range of standard clinical sequences.

The BNC is a fabrication and experimentation facility specializing in BioMEMS, microfluidic devices, electron/ion beam microscopy and nanofabrication. We are a core facility of the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences and are open to university, national lab, and industry users.

Provides EM services to the Berkeley campus and the academic community at large. The EML houses both TEMs and SEMs and provides three types of service: (1) education and training, (2) equipment for trained users, and (3) full service microscopy for pilot studies. The EML specializes in cryopreservation via HPF/FS. All services are available to anyone with an interest in electron microscopy: graduate and undergraduate students, post-doctoral researchers, faculty, staff, and non-UC users.

A state-of-the-art light microscopy facility specializing in imaging live cell and live small model organisms (zebrafish, drosophila, c. elegans, etc.), laser-scanning and spinning disk confocal microscopy, multi-photon microscopy, fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM), super resolution (AiryScan and Fast Airyscan), light-sheet microscopy (SPIM), holographic patterned illumination for optogenetic studies, and slide scanning with histological stains and fluorescence.

The Cell and Tissue Analysis Facility (CTAF) provides the cell culture equipment and high-end instrumentation needed to grow and assess mammalian cells, tissues, proteins, and more from flow cytometry to mass photometry to automated epifluorescence, confocal, and multiphoton imaging. Please contact Mary West, mwest@berkeley.edu for consultation!

Instruments include:

The Flow Cytometry provides UC Berkeley and local researchers with access to cutting-edge High-Dimensional Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting (Hi-D FACS) and analysis. The facility also provides flow cytometry instruments and expertise.

Accepts organic, soil, water, and air samples for analysis of stable isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, sulphur, oxygen and hydrogen at natural abundance.

Provides routine access for liquid- and solid-state NMR experiments as well as diffusion and micro-imaging applications. PMRC Core is primarily used for determining critical aspects of molecular structure, for studying reaction mechanisms qualitatively and quantitatively, and materials characterization. Instruments are available at field strengths 300 MHz to 700 MHz with probes to study a broad-band of nuclei (1H-19F and 31P-103Rh).  Further information can be found at: pmrc.berkeley.edu

Provides comprehensive proteomics services using mass spectrometry, determining the protein contents of samples as simple as gel bands or as complicated as whole cell extracts. The facility provides identification of post-translational modifications and relative quantitation as well as consultation regarding sample preparation and experimental design.

The facility provides proteomics services principally through mass spectrometry.  Currently we have two Thermo LTQ XL linear ion trap mass spectrometers and a Thermo Fusion Lumos mass spectrometer.

Provides routine acquisition of mass spectra and accurate mass measurements of biological, organic, and inorganic compounds, as well as mass measurements of intact proteins, lipids, oligosaccharides, and non-covalent protein-protein and protein-ligand complexes and supramolecular coordination clusters. The facility also provides advanced proteomics analysis and operates an open access laboratory. 

Offers gene cloning, protein expression and protein purification services. Also provides reagents such as competent cells, Cas9 proteins and TEV protease.