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.

 

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Category
Facility Institution
Duke University
Durham

The Light Microscopy Core Facility (LMCF) offers a wide range of confocal and fluorescence microscopes and image analysis resources. We aim to offer affordable and efficient access to standard and advanced imaging instrumentation.

More information/services:

Light microscopy, fluorescence imaging, confocal, multiphoton, live cell imaging, image analysis

  • Imaging & Microdissection
Lisa Cameron
lisa.cameron@duke.edu
(919) 613-8216
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill

The mission of the Histology Research Core Facility is to provide high-quality, cost-effective and timely histological results to researchers in the UNC system and abroad. This includes performance of existing, and development of new methodology for histological processing, sectioning and staining of both plant and animal specimens and all immunohistochemistry procedures. Other services provided: nissl, x-gal, beta gal, sectioning, staining, counterstain, prussian blue, cresyl violet, sudan iv

More information/services:

histology, paraffin, frozen, microtome, cryostat, cryosection, immunofluorescence, immunohistochemistry, hematoxylin, eosin, H+E, masson's trichrome, oil red o, sirius red, picrosirius red, alcian blue, PAS, von kossa, DAB, fluorescence

  • Pathology/Histology
J. Ashley Ezzell
jezzell@email.unc.edu
(919) 966-1202
North Carolina State University
Raleigh
More information/services:

consulting, sample preparation and crystalization, data collection, data analysis, SER-CAT collection

  • Crystallography, X-ray Diffraction, NMR, & EPR
Paul D. Swartz
paul_swartz@ncsu.edu
9195130713
North Carolina State University
Raleigh
More information/services:

Thermo Orbitrap Elite, Waters Q-TOF Premier, Waters Xevo-TQ Triple Quadrupole, Sciex API-3000 Triple Quadrupole

  • Other -omics & Analytical
Kevin Blackburn
kevin_blackburn@ncsu.edu
9195150833
Core Facilities - HubSpot
North Carolina State University
Raleigh

The CALS Center for Electron Microscopy provides scanning and transmission electron microscopy services including associated tissue preparation for the biological sciences. Digital imaging services are also available.

More information/services:

Transmission electron microscopy, Scanning electron microscopy, TEM, SEM, Ultramicrotomy, Critical point drying, Sputter coating, Biological samples, Digital Imaging

  • Imaging & Microdissection
Valerie Knowlton Lapham
valerie_knowlton@ncsu.edu
(919) 515-2664
North Carolina State University
Raleigh
More information/services:

surface plasmon resonance (SPR), circular dichroism, analytical ultracentrifugation, bio-layer interferometry (BLI)

  • Other -omics & Analytical
Peter M Thompson
pmthomps@ncsu.edu
919.515.0836
Duke University
Durham

The Informatics group of Duke's Center for Genomic and Computational Biology (GCB), in which the Computational Solutions core is based, operates, manages, and maintains high-performance infrastructure tailor-designed for the computing, networking, and data moving challenges arising from genomic science. This includes a high-performance computing (HPC) cluster (HARDAC) with large parallel file system storage attached, OpenStack and VMware-based compute VM clusters. Our infrastructure is used every day by researchers across schools and departments, as well as by cores within and outside of GCB. We maintain strong cybersecurity to meet the data protection requirements for PHI and other sensitive data.

More information/services:

high-performance computing, bioinformatics, reproducible science, computational workflows, virtual machines

  • Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, & HPC
Hilmar Lapp
hilmar.lapp@duke.edu
(919) 613-4661
Gateway Research Park
Greensboro

Gateway Research Park is a joint venture created by NC A&T State University and the University of North Carolina Greensboro to catalyze university research, innovation and economic development.

More information/services:

NanoBiology, Lab rental space

  • Nanotechnology
(336) 375-9232
Duke University
Durham

Duke MGC uses state-of-the-art technology to offer a variety of experimental platforms to facilitate genomics research for single-cell omics, DNA genotyping, DNA copy number, and DNA methylation.

More information/services:

Illumina, GWAS, microarray, DNA methylation, DNA copy number, TaqMan genotyping, single-cell, scRNAseq, 10x Genomics, scATACseq, CITE-seq

  • Genetics & Genomics
Karen Abramson
karen.abramson@duke.edu
(919) 684-0704
North Carolina State University
Raleigh

The laboratory provides instrumentation and assistance for multi-parameter flow cytometric analysis and sorting. It is available for use to all NCSU researchers and to those outside the NCSU community and operates as a by appointment, fee for service lab.

More information/services:

Cell Sorting, Flow Cytometry, CytoFLEX, BD LSRII, MoFlo-XDP, AutoMACS, Seahorse XF, LunaII cell counter, Flourochromes, Lasers, BSL2, BSL2+ cell sorting

  • Cell/Tissue Culture & Flow Cytometry
Javid Mohammed
jpmohamm@ncsu.edu
(919) 513-6443
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