
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.
The Center's ongoing role is to provide this information portal. If you would like to submit a new listing or update an existing listing please fill this form.
The Proteomics Core facility provides services for the analysis of proteins from tissues, cells or other biological samples. We are available to the UNC community, as well as external customers worldwide. We're committed to educating students and researchers in the field of proteomics and will work with you from initial experimental design through publication. We offer an array of sample preparation and instrumentation services, as well as method development and in-depth consultation to help researchers optimize their experimental design. The facility is equipped with three state-of-the-art systems: a Sciex 5800 MALDI-TOF/TOF, a Thermo Easy nLC 1000- QExactive HF, and a Waters nanoAcquity-Thermo LTQ-Orbitrap Velos. We offer several services including: protein identification, protein characterization, phosphoproteomics, large-scale proteomic profiling, and protein-protein interaction analyses.
mass spectrometry; LC/MS/MS; MALDI-TOF/TOF; CE/MS: protein identification; quantitative proteomics; post-translational modification identification; phosphoproteomics; targeted analyses; high-resolution intact mass analysis
- Other -omics & Analytical
We provide consultations and collaborations on research studies requiring computational structural biology methods. The analyses available through the core (part of the UNC Center for Structural Biology) are not limited to the study of static structures, but also include molecular dynamics studies for analyzing the contribution of dynamic and collective motions to macromolecular functionality.
structure visualization, modeling and analysis, sequence analysis, Protein Data Bank (PDB) and Pymol Modeling
- Bioprocessing
- Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & HPC
- Cell/Tissue Culture & Flow Cytometry
- Crystallography, X-ray Diffraction, NMR, & EPR
The Vector Core at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC Vector Core) operates as a full-service viral vector production organization. We have extensive experience in vector design and manufacturing of research and clinical grade vectors for academic, government, foundation, and biotech industry clients.
Viral vector production, Adenovirus, Adeno-associated virus, Lentiviral vectors, Plasmid, Research, Preclinical, CGMP, Testing Services
- Bioprocessing
- Viral Vectors
The UNCW-Crest Research Campus Spectroscopy Facility provides access to state-of-the-art NMR and MS instrumentation. Our core contains a 500- and 600-MHz NMR spectrometer along with multiple high- and low-resolution mass spectrometers. Access is preferentially given to UNCW students and staff with metered use provided for industrial partners. See https://uncw.edu/cms/facilitiescorespectroscopy.html for use and contact information.
NMR, MS
- Crystallography, X-ray Diffraction, NMR, & EPR
- Other -omics & Analytical
The Metabolomics Facility houses a LECO GC-time of flight mass spectrometry and Agilent LC-time of flight mass spectrometry, which are suitable for small molecule metabolite profiling and high-throughput screening.
Metabolite profiling, quantitative measure of metabolites and phytochemicals, biochemical analysis
- Imaging & Microdissection
- Other -omics & Analytical
The mission of the Center for Marine Science at UNCW is to promote basic and applied research in the fields of oceanography, coastal and wetland studies, marine biomedical and environmental physiology, and marine biotechnology and aquaculture.
Mariculture, diagnostics, bioassays, screening, chemical diversity, molecular diversity, culturing of marine organisms, structure determination, and dna sequencing
- Model Systems
- Genetics & Genomics
- Design Services & Machining
UNC-Chapel Hill hosts more than 50 core facilities. A wide range of services is provided from analytical chemistry to microscopy to X-ray crystallography among others. Access to services may vary. For more information download this brochure.
- Model Systems
- Bioprocessing
- Biorepository
- Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & HPC
- Cell/Tissue Culture & Flow Cytometry
- Crystallography, X-ray Diffraction, NMR, & EPR
- Design Services & Machining
- Diagnostic Microbiology
- Genetics & Genomics
- Human Performance, Nutrition, & Physiology
- Imaging & Microdissection
- Immunology/Antibody Production
- Nanotechnology
- Other -omics & Analytical
- Pathology/Histology
- Pharmaceutical & Drug Discovery
- Viral Vectors
WFU is home to many core research facilities which include microscopy, X-ray, NMR, and computer facilities; biomechanics, human performance, blood chemistry, physical function and behavioral physiology laboratories; and a Center for Nanotechnology.
- Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & HPC
- Human Performance, Nutrition, & Physiology
- Crystallography, X-ray Diffraction, NMR, & EPR
- Imaging & Microdissection
- Other -omics & Analytical
- Nanotechnology