Get to Know…Lauren Ralph (Pathology Services Core)!
July 31, 2023
Category: News
UNC Represented Among Attendees and Poster Presenters at ABRF 2023
May 25, 2023
The Association of Biomedical Research Facilities (ABRF) national meeting was held May 7-10 in Boston, MA. UNC was well represented with nine attendees from several different core facilities and core support organizations represented. Additionally, UNC core affiliates fielded three posters. Dr. Patricia Basta, of the BioSpecimen Processing Facility presented two posters....
Dr. Venkata R Chirasani named new director for R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics core
May 1, 2023
Dr. Venkata R Chirasani, R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics core director Dr. Venkata R Chirasani will be joining as the director of R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics core facility at UNC-Chapel Hill on May 1st, 2023. Dr. Chirasani is an expert in molecular modeling and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of...
Cryo-EM Core awarded a North Carolina Biotechnology Center innovation Impact Grant
April 25, 2023
Joshua Strauss, Ph.D., Director UNC Cryo-EM Core News contributed by Emily Robinson, Research Technician, UNC Cryo-EM Core The UNC Chapel Hill School of Medicine’s Cryo Electron Microscopy Core is excited to announce that were awarded North Carolina Biotechnology Center Innovation Impact Grant (GII) for the acquisition of a...
OSP Issues Statement on RSC Rate Increases
March 14, 2023
See below information from the Office of Sponsored Programs (OSP) concerning RSC rate increases. If your core’s rates are increasing or you receive pushback from.a customer about rate increases, you may wish to refer customers to the following: The University administers Research Service Centers (RSC/Core Facilities) according to Federal costing standards,...
New article on the role of core facilities in environmental sustainability co-authored by Dr. Chris Gregory from ORT
March 1, 2023
Congrats to ORT’s own Dr. Christopher Gregory on the publication of : “Addressing the Environmental Impact of Science Through a More Rigorous, Reproducible, and Sustainable Conduct of Research” in the Journal of Biomolecular Technique. The importance of core facilities can be felt far beyond the research enterprise. This article highlights...
Damania and Dittmer Featured for Research on How Cancer-Causing Viruses Evade Immune Responses
February 16, 2023
UNC Health’s News Room recently highlighted a Nature Communications article authored by our own Blossom Damania, PhD (Vice Dean for Research in the School of Medicine and Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology) and Dirk Dittmer, PhD (Director of the Vironomics Core and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology). The...
Save the Date: MAD SSCi 2023 hosted at UNC Chapel Hill
February 15, 2023
The MAD SSCi Conference is right around the corner! Registration for the 2023 conference will open soon. The theme of this year’s meeting will be “Cultivating Collaboration”. Meeting features include an opening reception at the Friday Conference Center, a Keynote lecture, two plenary lectures, scientific topic sessions, core administrative sessions, round...
Michelle Itano, PhD Receives CZI Grant to Help Train the Next Generation of Imaging Scientists
February 13, 2023
Michelle Itano, PhD, an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and director of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core at the UNC Neuroscience Center. Michelle Itano, PhD, an assistant professor in the UNC School of Medicine’s Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, is...
Core Facility Showcase Event
September 27, 2022
Over 40 core facilities will be participating in a core facility showcase event! Tuesday October 11, 2022 in Koury Oral Health Sciences Building 11 am – 1:30 pm Participating cores will have staff on hand to discuss the services they provide, your specific research projects, and exciting incoming technology....