Shared Research Facilities and Equipment
Many facilities across North Carolina support life sciences research.
The listing covers core laboratory facilities at university and nonprofit research institutions that are open to researchers or collaborators outside of their home institutions.
Representatives of the core facilities listed below have voluntarily submitted their information. Not all institutions list available core lab facilities, but many are in the process of organizing and compiling these resources. As this information becomes available, we'll add those links.
NCBiotech has funded equipment in many core facilities in the state.
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The Analytical Instrumentation Facility (AIF) is NC State’s core facility for electron microscopy, spectroscopy, and nanomaterials characterization. The AIF supports state-of-the-art scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM and TEM), X-ray scattering and spectroscopy, mass spectrometry, scanning probe and Raman microscopy, nanoindentation, and hosts extensive sample preparation facilities. The AIF has tools to support biological EM including cryo-SEM, cryo-TEM, and cryomicrotome.
electron microscopy, spectroscopy, spectrometry, diffraction, atomic force microscopy, nanoindentation
- Crystallography, X-ray Diffraction, NMR, & EPR
- Diagnostic Microbiology
- Imaging & Microdissection
- Nanotechnology
The mission of the ASU Human Performance Laboratory is to investigate the influence of unique plant molecules on age-related loss of muscle mass (sarcopenia), muscle mitochondrial biogenesis, and exercise-induced immune dysfunction and oxidative stress.
Flavonoids, exercise testing, immune function
- Human Performance, Nutrition, & Physiology
The Atomic Absorption Spectrometry Lab provides arsenic speciation analysis that determines the levels of inorganic arsenic and levels of its methylated metabolites in simple solutions and/or biological matrices.
Arsenic, Oxidation, Selenium, Speciation
This facility is to develop capability for drug efficacy and toxicity screen in accordance with Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) Regulations using the zebrafish model. Additional assays including behavioral and morphological assays in a high-throughput format will be used.
zebrafish, GLP studies, drug toxicity screen, behavioral assay, high throughput morphological assay
- Imaging & Microdissection
- Model Systems
- Pharmaceutical & Drug Discovery
The Biofluid Shared Resource facility uses state-of-the-art automation for the extraction and allocation of DNA. Extensive quality-control ensures maximum investigator confidence in sample processing and storage.
DNA extraction, RNA, blood, tissue, liquid handling, clinical, Oragene, storage, sample tracking, Biobank, licensable samples
- Biorepository
- Genetics & Genomics
The Bioinformatics Services Division (BiSD) of UNC Charlotte provides a wide range of bioinformatics services to the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC), UNC Charlotte and other life science companies throughout the country. Located on the NCRC in Kannapolis, North Carolina, our experienced team is adept at analyzing and interpreting the volumes of data produced by today's genomic technologies. Whether you are just considering a new project and need some advice or you already have a pile of data that you need to make sense of, we would be happy to talk with you.
Bioinformatics Analysis, Statistical Consultation, High Performance Computing, Custom data analysis, workflow development, Scripting support, Data Visualization, Data integration, Bioinformatics component of grant preparation.
- Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & HPC
User-operated Aviv 62DS CD Spectropolarimeter with automated titrator, thermoelectric temperature control, simultaneous fluorescence and CD detection. Staff-operated Beckman XL-A analytical ultracentrifuge for sedimentation equilibrium and velocity. User fees apply.
circular dichroism, fluorescence, analytical ultracentrifugation, sedimentation velocity, sedimentation equilibrium, temperature control, automated titration
- Other -omics & Analytical
The Biomolecular Interactions Core Facility (BICF) houses analytical equipment and resources for characterization of biomolecules and their interactions. Trainings are available on all instruments and we also accept submitted samples. We currently offer Isothermal Titration Calorimetry (ITC), Analytical Ultracentrifugation (AUC), Ultra Pressure Liquid Chromatography (UPLC), Circular Dichroism (CD), and Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR).
AUC, Sedimentation Velocity, Sedimentation Equilibrium, ITC, CD, SPR, UPLC, ligand binding, protein-protein interactions, protein-DNA, protein-RNA, oligomerization, AAV analysis
- Bioprocessing
- Other -omics & Analytical
- Pharmaceutical & Drug Discovery
The UNC Biomolecular NMR Laboratory (part of the UNC Center for Structural Biology) was created to support research into the structure and dynamics of biological molecules. The spectrometers are used to conduct studies of protein and nucleic acids in solution.
Bruker Avance III HD 850 Spectrometer, Bruker Avance III HD 700 MHz Spectrometer,Bruker Avance III HD 600 MHz Spectrometer,Bruker Avance III HD 500 MHz Spectrometer. Three TCI cryoprobes and one QCI. High-throughput Sample Jet sample changer,
- Crystallography, X-ray Diffraction, NMR, & EPR
- Bioprocessing
- Nanotechnology
- Other -omics & Analytical
- Pathology/Histology
- Pharmaceutical & Drug Discovery
The BSBC provides high-performance computing resources to the scientific community (including faculty, scientists, and BioTech/BioPharma companies) in the Piedmont Triad area whose biotechnology research requires high-performance parallel computing. Application required (see http://bsbc.uncg.edu/).
Hardware: Dual load-sharing head nodes, 89 heterogeneous compute nodes, 752 CPU cores, 49,152 streaming GPU cores, 96 port Infiniband switch, 20-TB storage subsystem Software: NAMD, Conf Memories, NW Chem, AMBER
- Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & HPC