Acknowledging the contributions made by facilities

It's important to give credit to the contribution made by our facilities and their staff.

Acknowledging the contribution of our research facilities provides a mechanism to demonstrate their success.

This acknowledgement increases the research facility's visibility internally and externally, and:

generates additional income to the School through external collaborations,
raises our profile within the UK and internationally, and
strengthens our funding applications and REF cases.

How to acknowledge the facility

Note Contributions

Please routinely note the contributions made by research facilities and staff in all publications.

Send a draft to the facility

As a matter of courtesy, and for your own benefit, please send a copy of the draft publication to the facility prior to submission.

Facility staff can help spot errors in methods or presentation of results, and it provides an opportunity for them to ensure you have acknowledged them correctly.

Acknowledging specific facility staff

Please communicate with, and acknowledge, specific facility staff if they were involved in performing experiments or provided more involved training/advice/work for you.

Please make sure you consider co-authorship if their contributions go beyond this.

Standard text to include in publications

Edinburgh Genome Foundry

This research was conducted with material produced with the assistance of the Edinburgh Genome Foundry, a synthetic biology research facility specialising in the assembly of large DNA fragments at the University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Genomics

Analyses were carried out by Edinburgh Genomics at the University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh Genomics is partly supported through core grants from NERC (R8/H10/56), MRC (MR/K001744/1) and BBSRC (BB/J004243/1).

EdinOmics

The metabolomics and/or proteomics analyses were carried out by the EdinOmics research facility (RRID: SCR_021838) at the University of Edinburgh.

COIL

Imaging was performed in Centre Optical Instrumentation Laboratory (COIL), which is supported by a Core Grant (203149) to the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh.

Edinburgh Protein Production Facility

This work was supported by the Edinburgh Protein Production Facility (EPPF) and the Centre Core Grants (092076 and 203149) to the Wellcome Centre for Cell Biology at the University of Edinburgh.

CRYO EM

Data/Grid screening was acquired/performed in the cryoEM facility in School of Biological Sciences at the University of Edinburgh. The cryoEM facility was set up with funding from the Wellcome (087658/Z/08/Z) and SULSA.

Transmission / Scanning EM

The authors would like to acknowledge Stephen Mitchell at the School of Biological Sciences electron microscopy unit for assistance with EM. We acknowledge the support of the Wellcome Multi User Equipment Grant (WT104915MA).

FACS facilities

Flow cytometry data were generated within the Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Facility in Ashworth, King’s Buildings at the University of Edinburgh. The facility is supported by funding from Wellcome and the University of Edinburgh.

LEAP Facility

Cell processing, analysis and optoinjection were carried out using LEAP Technology supported by the UK Centre for Mammalian Synthetic Biology (funded by BB/M018040/1).

This article was published on 8 Dec, 2022