Core Facility Technology Talks 2025

Recording Available!

Unable to attend the Technology Talks during Research Week? A recording of the session is available here.

How to Attend

Talks will be held Monday October 20, 2025 from 1 pm until 4 pm during UNC Research Week.

Both virtual and in-person attendance options are available. The talks will be held in 3112 Mary Ellen Jones for those who wish to attend in-person. For those who wish to attend remotely, please scan the QR code or click here to re gister for the webinar. Once you are registered, a zoom link/calendar event will be provided.

Schedule of Talks

Start Time	Title (click for abstract)	Core Facility
1:00	Screening Therapies Against Living Patient Tumor Tissues Organotypic brain slice cultures	Screening Live Cancer Explants Core
1:15	Olink High-Throughput Biomarker Analysis at UNC- a Long COVID case study Olink Target 96 Panels and the Olink Signature Q100 instrument	Respiratory TRACTS Core
1:30	AI Meets Drug Discovery: Harnessing MolGPT for Designing Potent Protein Binders Machine learning	R.L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics Core
1:45	Obtain Collision Cross-Section Values in Cyclic Ion Mobility Separations Using Waters select series cyclic ion mobility mass spectrometer to obtain Collision-Cross-Section Values in Multipass High-Resolution Ion Mobility experiments.	Biomarker Mass Spectrometry Facility
2:00	Discover the Future of Histopathology with HALO AI at the Pathology Services Core HALO AI software from Indica Labs – digital image analysis.	Pathology Services Core
2:15	Clinical proteomics for the masses Mass spectrometry-based proteomics using the newly acquired Seer nanoparticle enrichment platform, coupled with downstream analysis on the Thermo Astral, a next-generation, high-throughput mass spectrometer.	Michael Hooker Metabolomics and Proteomics Core
2:30	Decoding Biological Complexity through Multi-Omics Multiomic extraction, data collection, and workflow	High-Throughput Sequencing Facility
2:45	Getting the most RNA from your blood Blood processing for RNA extraction from PAXGENE blood tubes	BioSpecimen Processing Facility
3:00	Setting up a genomic long-read sequence analysis pipeline Oxford Nanopore Technology (ONT) long-read sequence analysis using the open-source EPI2ME platform.	The Clinical Genome Analysis (GENYSIS) Core
3:15	Efficient and Cost-Effective 16S rRNA Sequencing: Preserving Microbial Diversity with Less Reagents Miniaturization of 16S rRNA Sequencing using Opentron Flex robot	UNC MIcrobiome Core
3:30	Achieving High-Resolution Light-Sheet Imaging with the ASI ct-dSPIM ASI ct-dSPIM imaging system	Neuroscience Microscopy Core
3:45	Mixed Method Evaluation: Case studies from the ECHO program mixed method evaluation, logic modeling, data analysis, research implementation and support, project management, bibliometrics	Abacus Evaluation