Category: News

The CZI will support the innovative imaging work of Michelle Itano, PhD, director of the UNC Neuroscience Microscopy Core facility, for five years thanks to a grant totaling nearly $800,000. Read the story: http://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2019/march/itano-earns-czi-grant-to-support-imaging-scientists

Associate professor and Beerstecher-Blackwell Distinguished Term Scholar Patricia Silveyra, PhD, MSc, was appointed director of the UNC School of Nursing (SON) Biobehavioral Laboratory (BBL) on September 1, 2018.

The HPSSC expertise is available to facilitate the development of joint proposals, provide technical support and consultation for researchers working with stem cells.

The Macromolecular X-ray Crystallography Core has added several new technologies to speed the crystallization of proteins—including membrane proteins—for structure determination.

Pablo Ariel, PhD, Director of the Microscopy Services Lab (MSL) has just published a user guide for the LaVision BioTec UltraMicroscope II light sheet system

The Hooker Imaging Core (HIC) is an open core providing a broad range of light microscopy techniques, analyses and consultation for UNC researchers. The core is located in Taylor Hall near Lineberger and the MBRB and includes several confocal and widefield microscopes in addition to systems for high content screening...

A new report from the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) identifies challenges faced by shared resources providers and users, and makes recommendations for improvement.

The UNC Vironomics (viral genomics) Core aims to facilitate ZIKV research projects at UNC, from translational research, to animal studies, to high-throughput screening.

UNC core facility churns out radioactive agents to investigate the subcellular activity that drives disease