The following rates and access options apply.
CMCA access categories
Access to CMCA is available under three categories at different rates:
- Internal: UWA Staff, Students, Visitors and Affiliates
- Associates: Australian Publicly funded researchers and Government organisations (including WA Research Partners*)
- External: Commercial and industry
*WA Research Partners
The WA Research Partner access agreement includes staff, students, adjuncts and clinical appointments from UWA, Curtin University, Murdoch University, The University of Notre Dame and Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO).
Under the access agreement, CMCA will invoice the WA Research Partners based on the Associate rate. The home institutes, through their respective Research Offices, will typically cover two-thirds of the cost, passing the remaining one-third directly onto the researcher.
Access options
Users can access CMCA equipment within a category by paying in arrears by the hour or purchasing pre-paid blocks of hours.
Option one: Pay in arrears
- Users can pay for equipment access by the hour.
Option two: Pre-paid access
- Users can pre-pay for a block of hours in advance and receive a discounted rate.
- The larger the block you buy, the more the discount.
- Block hours can be used on any instrument within a category.
- Block hours must be used by a single user (no shared blocks).
- Blocks must be used within 12 months of purchase.
- When you run out of hours, you must buy a new block of hours (or switch to paying by the hour).
Would you like staff with that?
If you do not want to be trained and run the instrument yourself, there is the possibility of paying an additional hourly fee for CMCA’s expert staff to undertake the work for you.
For some NCRIS-supported instruments, e.g. ion probe facility, staff costs are included within the hourly rates and no additional staff charges apply.
Purchase instrument time
To purchase instrument time, please download and complete the CMCA payment form [PDF, 570KB] . Pre-purchased hours will be credited to you within 72 hours of purchase so please do not submit the payment form until you have been trained and are ready to commence your work. Pre-purchased hours must be used within 12 months of purchase. Please consider this when deciding how large a block to purchase.
CMCA rates
Internal
Eligibility criteria
Subsidised internal rates apply to UWA Staff, Students, Visitors and Affiliates (including Adjunct, Clinical and Honorary appointments), when the project grant funding is administered by UWA.
If CMCA facility access is for a project with funding administered by another organisation, or has been commissioned by the funder, or has a commercial focus then associate rates will apply.
Membership fee paid on initial registration (inc. training in one platform, where applicable)
| Honours & Masters by Coursework: | $100 |
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| All others (PhD & Masters by Research, Post-docs & staff): | $250 |
Training fee (per additional platform or instrument type)
| All users: | $100 |
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CMCA staff operator charge
| Staff: | $40/hour (Please include an additional $40/hour UWA in-kind support on all grant applications. Total $80/hour) |
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Equipment access rates
Hours | Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | Category 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay by the hour | $15 ($15/hour) | $30 ($30/hour) | $30 ($30/hour) | $55 ($55/hour) | $55 ($55/hour) |
| Pre-pay block of 50 | $500 ($10/hour) | $1,000 ($20/hour) | $1,000 ($20/hour) | Not available | Not available |
| Pre-pay block of 100 | $750 ($7.50/hour) | $1,500 ($15/hour) | $1,500 ($15/hour) | $5,000 ($50/hour) | Not available |
| Pre-pay block of 200 | $1,000 ($5/hour) | $2,000 ($10/hour) | $2,500 ($12.50/hour) | $9,350 ($46.75/hour) | Not available |
| Pre-pay block of 400 | $1,250 ($3.12/hour) | $2,500 ($6.25/hour) | Not available | $17,600 ($44/hour) | Not available |
Instrument groups
Category 0:
- Sample prep & ancillary equipment: CryoEM preparation facilities, microtomes, vibratome, glow discharge unit, vacuum oven, critical point dryer, freeze dryer, furnace, geological sample prep room, anesthetic trolleys
- Analysis workstations and software
- Crawley campus and Perkins building visitor parking bays
Note: Complimentary access to Category 0 facilities is provided to all researchers who are registered to use other facilities at CMCA, e.g. instruments in Categories 1-4. Researchers wishing to access only facilities in Category 0, e.g. sample prep or data processing computers will be required to pay for access. Please enquire through CMCA Admin if you wish to do this.
Category 1:
- NMR: Bruker Avance 600 MHz, Bruker Avance 500 MHz, Bruker Neo 400 MHz, Varian 400 MHz
- Basic Light Microscopy: Olympus IX81 ([email protected]), Nikon Ti-U ([email protected]), Zeiss Optical ([email protected]), Nikon 6-colour Microscope ([email protected])
- Benchtop SEM: JEOL Neoscope SEM
Category 2:
- Electron Microscopy: FEI Titan TEM, JEOL F200 Screening TEM, FEI Helios FIB-SEM, FEI Verios SEM, Zeiss SEM, Tescan SEM, JEOL 8530F microprobe (x2)
- Advanced Light Microscopy: Nikon A1Si, Nikon A1RMP, Nikon A1 FLIM/FCS, Nikon SIM, Nikon STORM
- X-ray Microscopy: Zeiss Versa 520 XRM
- Scanned Probe Microscopy: Cypher VRS AFM, Keysight 5500 SPM, WITEC Alpha 300RA+ Confocal Raman, Hysitron TI 950 Nanoindenter
- Flow Cytometry: BD Canto, BD Fortessa, BD Calibur, Luminex 200, BD Influx, BD Melody, CyTOF, Beckman Coulter Z2, 10x Chrominium Genomics Platform, CellCelector
- Bioimaging Facility: Bruker Skyscan 1176 micro-CT, CRi Maestro 2, Caliper IVIS Lumina II, FUJIFILM VisualSonics Vevo LAZR-X, FUJIFILM VisualSonics Vevo 3100
Category 3:
- Cryo Electron Microscopy: JEOL F200 cryoTEM, JEOL F200 Screening TEM, JEOL IT800 cryoSEM
Category 4:
- Pre-clinical MRI: Bruker Biospec 9.4T MRI
Category 5:
- Large Field of View CT: Nikon XT H 225 ST
Advice for grant applicants
Researchers applying for grant funding are advised to calculate their microscopy and analysis budget based on the relevant hourly charge (and not to incorporate block discounts into their budget). For grant schemes where UWA will provide in-kind support, the Internal rate ($15, $30 or $55) should be requested from the funding agency and the in-kind contribution from UWA should be included as $30, $60 or $110, respectively to reflect UWA’s two-thirds in-kind support for your access to CMCA facilities.
Competitive Neutrality
Internal users should note that undertaking commercial work at the UWA internal rate is considered to be a breach of CMCA policy and may also be illegal under the Trade Practices Act 1974 administered by the ACCC. Internal users who need to undertake microscopy on behalf of a commercial client must discuss this with the platform leader prior to commencing work.
Associate
Eligibility criteria
Associate rates are available to Australian publicly funded researchers and Government organisations. This includes WA Research Partners.
All rates are exclusive of GST.
Membership fee paid on initial registration (inc. training in one platform, where applicable)
| Honours & Masters by Coursework: | $200 |
|---|---|
| All others (PhD & Masters by Research, Post-docs & staff): | $500 |
Training fee (per additional platform or instrument type)
| All users: | $200 |
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CMCA staff operator charge
| Staff: | Price on application |
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Equipment access rates
Hours | Category 1 | Category 2 | Category 3 | Category 4 | Category 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pay by the hour | $45 ($45/hour) | $90 ($90/hour) | $60 ($60/hour) | $165 ($165/hour) | $130 ($130/hour) |
| Pre-pay block of 50 | $1,500 ($30/hour) | $3,000 ($60/hour) | Not available | Not available | Not available |
| Pre-pay block of 100 | $2,250 ($22.50/hour) | $4,500 ($45/hour) | $4,500 ($45/hour) | $15,000 ($150/hour) | Not available |
| Pre-pay block of 200 | $3,000 ($15/hour) | $6,000 ($30/hour) | $7,500 ($37.50/hour) | $28,050 ($140.25/hour) | Not available |
| Pre-pay block of 400 | $3,750 ($9.37/hour) | $7,500 ($18.75/hour) | Not available | $52,800 ($132/hour) | Not available |
Instrument groups
Category 0:
- Sample prep & ancillary equipment: CryoEM preparation facilities, microtomes, vibratome, glow discharge unit, vacuum oven, critical point dryer, freeze dryer, furnace, geological sample prep room, anesthetic trolleys
- Analysis workstations and software
- Crawley campus and Perkins building visitor parking bays
Note: Complimentary access to Category 0 facilities is provided to all researchers who are registered to use other facilities at CMCA, e.g. instruments in Categories 1-4. Researchers wishing to access only facilities in Category 0, e.g. sample prep or data processing computers will be required to pay for access. Please enquire through CMCA Admin if you wish to do this.
Category 1:
- NMR: Bruker Avance 600 MHz, Bruker Avance 500 MHz, Bruker Neo 400 MHz, Varian 400 MHz
- Basic Light Microscopy: Olympus IX81 ([email protected]), Nikon Ti-U ([email protected]), Zeiss Axioskop ([email protected]), Zeiss Stereo ([email protected])
- Benchtop SEM: JEOL Neoscope SEM
Category 2:
- Electron Microscopy: FEI Titan TEM, JEOL F200 Screening TEM, FEI Helios FIB-SEM, FEI Verios SEM, Zeiss SEM, Tescan SEM, JEOL 8530F microprobe (x2)
- Advanced Light Microscopy: Nikon A1Si, Nikon A1RMP, Nikon A1 FLIM/FCS, Nikon SIM, Nikon STORM
- X-ray Microscopy: Zeiss Versa 520 XRM
- Scanned Probe Microscopy: Cypher VRS AFM, Keysight 5500 SPM, WITEC Alpha 300RA+ Confocal Raman, Hysitron TI 950 Nanoindenter
- Flow Cytometry: BD Canto, BD Fortessa, BD Calibur, Luminex 200, BD Influx, BD Melody, CyTOF, Beckman Coulter Z2, 10x Chrominium Genomics Platform, CellCelector
- Bioimaging Facility: Bruker Skyscan 1176 micro-CT, CRi Maestro 2, Caliper IVIS Lumina II, FUJIFILM VisualSonics Vevo LAZR-X, FUJIFILM VisualSonics Vevo 3100
Category 3:
- Cryo Electron Microscopy: JEOL F200 cryoTEM, JEOL F200 Screening TEM, JEOL IT800 cryoSEM
Category 4:
- Pre-clinical MRI: Bruker Biospec 9.4T MRI
Category 5:
- Large Field of View CT: Nikon XT H 225 ST
External users
Eligibility criteria:
External rates apply to commercial and industry-based projects.
CMCA works with external users in a variety of ways including:
- Fee for service analysis charged by the hour
- Research collaborations
- Training of external users for direct facility access
Please contact us today to discuss your specific requirements in more detail.
Microscopy Australia Ion Probe Facility
Rates for the UWA Ion probes IMS 1280 Facility
| Rates | Internal | Associate | international Universities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 - Minimum charge (15 hours)1 | $1200 additional hours charged at $80/hour | $1200 additional hours charged at $80/hour | $1500 additional hours charged at $100/hour |
| 2023 - Minimum charge (1 Day)2 | $2100 | $2600 | $2800 |
Please note:
1 In 2022 the minimum bookable time on the instrument is fifteen (15) hours.
2 In 2023 and beyond the instrument will be transitioning to a full day rate only.
Commercial prices available on request. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Rates for the NanoSIMS*2 Facility
| Rates | Internal | Associate | international Universities |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minimum charge (1 day)3 | $800 | $800 | $800 |
Please note:
3 The instrument is bookable for full days only.
Commercial prices available on request. Please contact us to discuss your requirements.
Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS)
Metabolomics Australia
Our highly experienced team have many years of experience and have actively led, or supported hundreds of research programs for academic and commercial research objectives.
Please contact us today to discuss how we can assist with:
- Sample preparation
- Targeted and untargeted metabolomics programs
- Metabolomics identification
- Advanced data analysis and reporting
WA Proteomics Facility
The WA Proteomics Facility is a node of Proteomics Australia based at CMCA that provides services to WA researchers including - sample analysis by mass spectrometry, data analysis and consulting. Services are delivered through a joint venture between The University of Western Australia and Proteomics International.
Our goal is to use our expertise and equipment to fuel cutting-edge research. We strive to form strong collaborations with any interested scientists to increase the value of their research.
Please contact us today to discuss how we can assist with:
- Protein identification to provide evidence to link a protein to the gene that encodes it
- Quantitative proteomics to reveal the abundance of specific proteins in a complex sample
- Targeted proteomics to enable specific proteins of interest to be analysed
- Flux proteomics to measure the synthesis and degradation rates of proteins
Contact us
- Email
Please email your enquiries to [email protected]
- Phone
Call during office hours:
(+61) 8 6488 2770 
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