Core Facilities

UNC Research Core Facilities are shared resources which offer a wide range of services to the research community, including cutting edge technologies, high end instrumentation, technical support, and education. Our facilities are committed to enhancing and expanding the collaborative capabilities of research at UNC-Chapel Hill.

In December 2024, Justin Fousek, a Research Systems Administrator II at the Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center Bioinformatics Core, was awarded a Core Facility Staff Recognition Award in the area of Technical Achievement. His multiple nominators highlighted Justin’s ability to find creative, compliant, and effective solutions to a myriad of technical, logistical, and com problems experienced …

Press Release from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research: In alignment with the goals of Carolina’s Strategic Research Roadmap, effective January 1, 2025, UNC core facilities will charge internal breakeven rates to all UNC System institutions. Carolina’s Strategic Research Roadmap, a comprehensive plan launched earlier this year, established goals to enhance UNC’s research assets and maximize the impact and value …

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This searchable database lists all the cores in alphabetical order.
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Office of Research Technologies

ORT oversees core services and administration, maintains the Core Facility Advocacy Committee, provides funding opportunities to cores, and more. Though ORT is situated within the UNC School of Medicine we are a resource for ALL UNC Chapel HiIl cores.

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Recent Publications supported by UNC Core Facilities
- Isogenic comparison of Airn and Xist reveals core principles of Polycomb recruitment by lncRNAs March 21, 2025
  The mechanisms and biological roles of Polycomb repressive complex (PRC) recruitment by long noncoding RNAs (lncRNAs) remain unclear. To gain insight, we expressed two lncRNAs that recruit PRCs to multi-megabase domains, Airn and Xist, from an ectopic locus in mouse stem cells and compared effects. Unexpectedly, ectopic Airn recruited PRC1 and PRC2 to chromatin with […]
  Jackson B Trotman
- Predicting infant brain connectivity with federated multi-trajectory GNNs using scarce data March 19, 2025
  The understanding of the convoluted evolution of infant brain networks during the first postnatal year is pivotal for identifying the dynamics of early brain connectivity development. Thanks to the valuable insights into the brain's anatomy, existing deep learning frameworks focused on forecasting the brain evolution trajectory from a single baseline observation. While yielding remarkable results, […]
  Michalis Pistos
- Optogenetic stimulation of cell bodies versus axonal terminals generate comparable activity and functional connectivity patterns in the brain March 16, 2025
  Optogenetic techniques are often employed to dissect neural pathways with presumed specificity for targeted projections. In this study, we used optogenetic fMRI to investigate the effective landscape of stimulating the cell bodies versus one of its projection terminals. Specifically, we selected a long-range unidirectional projection from the ventral subiculum (vSUB) to the nucleus accumbens shell […]
  Li-Ming Hsu

Get to Know Justin Fousek (LCCC Bioinformatics)

Biomolecular NMR Laboratory and Macromolecular X-Ray Crystallization Core Highlighted in Recent Nature Chemical Biology Paper

UNC Core Facilities to Honor Internal Pricing to All UNC System Institutions

Recent Publications supported by UNC Core Facilities

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