ORT Core Facility Workshop- External F&A
2023-01-17 09:00 - 11:00 (America/New_York)
Jackie Schwamberger, who presented in our June Core Director’s meeting, is back to talk about F&A! Alongside her will be Ben Wright, from OSP and together they are here to work with core staff or business managers/departmental accountants on developing tracking mechanisms for F&A, discussing what are allowable vs non-allowable expenses, and demonwhat documentation is needed to justify purchases with F&A funds. Jackie and Ben are happy to answer questions specific to your core and customers as well as more general questions! Register here for a zoom session on January 17th. Spots are limited so register soon—and keep your eye out for a repeat session in late spring! This event will be held via Zoom.

Cost-Share and Matching Fund Request Submission Deadline
2023-01-13 17:00, 2022-11-23 17:00, 2022-09-16 17:00, 2022-07-22 17:00
If you are asking CFAC for cost-sharing towards an instrument purchase or matching fund requests for grant submissions, you MUST submit your request using our online form: https://www.med.unc.edu/corefacilities/cfac-cost-sharing-and-matching-fund-request-submission-form/

Funding decisions and awards will be discussed and finalized at the CFAC meeting following each submission deadline.

For assistance or advice in filling out this form please contact your CFAC representative or ORT at corefacilities@med.unc.edu.

CFAC Meeting
2023-01-11 09:00 - 11:00, 2022-12-14 09:00 - 11:00, 2022-11-09 09:00 - 11:00, 2022-10-12 09:00 - 11:00, 2022-09-14 09:00 - 11:00, 2022-08-10 09:00 - 11:00, 2022-07-13 09:00 - 11:00, 2022-06-08 09:00 - 11:00
This is the monthly meeting of the Core Facilities Advocacy Committee. If you have a question, topic, or specific issue to bring to CFAC’s attention prior to this meeting please contact your CFAC representative or ORT (corefacilities@med.unc.edu) by the Monday prior to the meeting date!

CFAC Winter/Spring RFA Opens for Submissiond
2022-12-14 08:00 - 17:00
More information will be available Wednesday morning

OSP-Sponsored Core Director's Meeting
2022-12-13 10:00 - 11:00
Ben Wright, Director of Research Core Development in OSP, will be presenting on:

Financial Reporting
Rate reviews
iLab
New Research Core Development webpage
External research core agreements portal
Upcoming workshops
and more!

Zoom link: https://unc.zoom.us/j/97515014164

Fall Core Staff Awards- Nominations CLOSE
2022-11-30 08:00 - 17:00
The UNC Research Core Facilities Staff Recognition Program is designed to recognize extraordinary achievements by SHRA and EHRA NF permanent, full- and part-time employees of biomedical research cores (including full-service recharge, collaborative and limited access core labs) at UNC Chapel Hill.
There will be two award cycles per year, and within each award cycle up to three nominated staff members may be chosen for recognition, one for each of three categories of staff excellence. Each selected staff member will receive $1,000 (taxable income).
Awards will be decided by a selection committee.

Submissions for this cycle open November 1, 2022 and close November 30, 2022.

Fall Core Staff Recognition Program Opens for Nominations!
2022-11-01 08:00 - 17:00

Imaris User Group Meeting hosted by Microscopy Services Laboratory
2022-10-18 - 2022-10-20
The Microscopy Services Laboratory will host an Imaris User Group Meeting from October 18 to 20. This will be a 3-day, intensive course for users of Imaris, a powerful 3D analysis and visualization software available at MSL, the Hooker Imaging Core and the Neuroscience Microscopy Core. The course will be taught by company representatives and go over all the functionality in the software, in detail. I took a prior version of this course myself several years ago and it was immensely helpful in learning how to use Imaris for different research questions.

The course will take place in the Carolina Gaming Arena, where each of 33 attendees will have access to identical, top-of-the-line computers that can run the full version of Imaris. I expect intense interest in this opportunity, so please spread the word and sign up here:
https://forms.office.com/r/r7s3mcWVDb
Sign-up closes on Friday, September 16th
Questions should be directed to Pablo Ariel (pablo_ariel@med.unc.edu)

NCBC Innovation Impact Grant Deadline
2022-10-12 12:00 - 12:01
https://www.ncbiotech.org/funding/grants/innovation-impact-grant

The Innovation Impact Grant (IIG) program supports the purchase of research equipment for core facilities at academic or nonprofit institutions fostering innovation within North Carolina’s life sciences ecosystem.
Priority will be given to proposals demonstrating a high impact on the applicant institution and broader life sciences research community.

Funding Deadline: October 12, 2022 at 12:00 NOON.

Core Facilities Showcase Fair
2022-10-11 11:00 - 13:30 | Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, 385 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC
Where: Koury Oral Health Sciences Building (385 S. Columbia St) 1st and Ground Floor lobbies
When: Tuesday, October 11, 2022 from 11:00 AM to 1:30 PM
What: Participating core facilities will each have a manned table and will be giving short, TED-style talks in Kirkland Auditorium. Come talk to our core directors about your research and listen to research highlights in our core facilities. Lunch will be provided for attendees who have their registration card signed by the requisite number of core directors!
Special thanks to the SOM Office of Research, VCR Core Development Team, and Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center for their support for this event!
List of Participating Cores (TBA)
Schedule of Presentations (TBA)
Are you interested in attending but you are not based at UNC? Parking (paid) is available just down the road at the Dogwood Parking Deck or the Koury Oral Health Sciences Building is right off the Health Sciences Library bus stop on Columbia St!
For more information reach out to the UNC SOM Office of Research Technologies at corefacilities@med.unc.edu

Neuroscience Microscopy Core and Leica Microsystems: Partner in Microscopy Celebration
2022-09-20 10:00 - 12:00 | Mary Ellen Jones Room 3116

Core Annual Planning Surveys Due!
2022-09-02 17:00
Annual planning surveys, which were e-mailed to you in July, are due!

Timely receipt and completion of these surveys are not only helpful for ORT data and metrics, they are required if your core intends to apply for CFAC funding for this fiscal year.

We appreciate your assistance! If you have any questions please contact ORT at corefacilities@med.unc.eduCore

UNC Microscopy Cafe Series
2022-06-10 10:00 - 11:00, 2022-05-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Medical Biomolecular Research Building (MBRB) Room G202
The UNC Microscopy Café is an informal seminar series and discussion group on microscopy theory and practice. Microscopy Café will meet monthly with a ~50 minute seminar followed by a dedicated time and space for informal discussions about any microscopy topic(s) you want. Each seminar is designed to be stand-alone and accessible and informative for all levels. We welcome attendance and participation from the entire UNC research community and neighbors.
Seminars will be hybrid with a webcast for those who cannot participate in person. Links will be emailed to registered participants the day before the event and added to our Google Calendar event description (also accessible from the website). Please complete the free registration form for each seminar to help us document impact!

March 11, 10am, MBRB G202: Fluorescence Basics with Wendy Salmon (Hooker Imaging Core) Register here (free)

April 8, 10am, MBRB G202: Why Microscopy? with Pablo Ariel (Microscopy Services Laboratory)
May 13, 10am, MBRB G202: From pixels to graphs – an introduction to squeezing numbers out of microscopy images from Kasia Kedziora (Genetics & BARC)
June 10, 10am, MBRB G202: Moving, Storing and Using image files from Michelle Itano (Neuroscience Microscopy Core)

ORT to Represent Core Facilities at Durham Tech "Back to Work" Virtual Hiring Event
2022-06-09 12:00 - 13:00
Kara Clissold, Associate Director of the Office of Research Technologies, will be representing any UNC core facility who will be hiring in June and wishes to advertise their job posting at Durham Tech’s “Back To Work” Virtual Hiring Event. We have an hour time slot with which to meet with interested students and discuss the open positions in our cores.
These positions should be suitable for recent graduates of 2- or 4-year college degree programs related to biotechnology. If you are interested in advertising your open position during this hiring event please contact Kara at kara_clissold@med.unc.edu by Tuesday, June 7th to provide a job description.

Core Director's Meeting
2022-06-02 08:30 - 11:00 | BioInformatics Building Room 1131
Please let us know via e-mail (kara_clissold@med.unc.edu) if you will be attending in person so I can get a catering count!

Agenda

Location- Bioinformatics 1131​

8:30- Open for bagels and coffee on the outdoor patio!

We will begin at about 8:50 with a few opening remarks and housekeeping items.

9:00- Purchasing with Troy Morse
9:30- Rate Reviews with Chris Gregory and Kara Clissold
10:00- Contracts with Diane Koltz
10:30- Best Practices in F&A Tracking with Jackie Schwamberger
11:00- End of meeting!

Additional Note:
If there is anyone associated with your core (employee, business manager, accountant, etc.) who would benefit from these sessions they are welcome to attend. Please forward the invitation to anyone who would benefit from these sessions.

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Microbiome/Metagenome Data Analysis Workshop
2022-05-11 09:00 - 16:00, 2022-05-10 09:00 - 16:00, 2022-05-09 09:00 - 16:00 | Friday Center
Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative (BARC), UNC Microbiome core and SOM Office of Research are planning to host a hands-on bioinformatics data analysis workshop focused on “Analysis of next generation sequence data for microbiomes, metagenomes and metatranscriptomes” soon.
Please see the announcement below for information regarding how to apply. An application is required and we will be doing a selection of candidates. We generally are able to select one person per investigator group. If more than one person applies from a lab we may ask the PI to choose one person to attend.

The workshop will discuss the basics of processing 16S rRNA amplicon, metagenomic, and metatranscriptomic sequencing of microbial communities. For 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing results, students will learn to use QIIME2 to determine taxonomic composition and for preliminary diversity and differential abundance analysis. For metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing results, students will learn to use Kraken2/Bracken and HUMAnN2 to determine composition of taxa, gene families, and pathways. Microbiome data will be analyzed and visualized in QIIME2 and R. We will also cover metagenome assembly strategies.

When: May 9th through May 11th 2022 (9 am – 4 pm).
Where: UNC Friday Center (Parking will be available)

Points to note:
1. Workshop is only open for researchers with a current affiliation with UNC-CH
2. Workshop will be held at an off-campus location. You should be willing/able to attend for the entire duration of the workshop. Since the sessions build upon sequential learning it may be difficult for you to keep up (and for us to help you) if you miss any sessions.
3. Free Breakfast/Lunch/session breaks are included.
4. There is no charge to attend as of now (Necessary Disclaimer: subject to change/a small fee).
5. You must have a laptop (PC/Mac) that you can bring along.
6. Workshop is limited to 15 (fifteen) participants due to venue space constraints, COVID protocols and to ensure that everyone gets adequate attention/help.
Application procedure:
If you are interested in attending the workshop, please complete the questionnaire (just the items between the lines below) and send to Dr. Hemant Kelkar (hkelkar@unc.edu) by email by 5 pm on April 25th, 2022.
Applicants will be notified of the selection decision by May 1st.

Please answer the following questions to best of your knowledge.
1. Are you comfortable using linux? If you have no linux experience please indicate that (prior experience is not required/expected).
2. Have you done QIIME2 analysis before? If yes, how comfortable are you with QIIME2 package?
3. Have you done any microbiome related data analysis before? If yes, can you summarize your experience?
4. Do you have your own microbiome/metagenome sequencing dataset you are planning to bring? (if yes, specify if 16S rRNA amplicon or WGS sequencing). If you presently don’t have your own data are you planning to do a related experiment soon?
5. Provide some biographical information.
A. Your Information
Name:
UNC Email:
ONYEN:
Contact phone:
Current UNC Affiliation (student, postdoc, staff, faculty):
B. Information about your PI (if you are not the PI)
Name:
Department:
UNC Email:

Early Bird Registration Deadline for MAD SSCI Conference
2022-05-01 08:00 - 17:00
MAD SSCi 2022 will be a collaborative meeting with the FASEB Committee on Shared Research Resources. It will take place June 16-17, 2022 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. In addition to the fantastic science and development of the FASEB report, it will feature a pre-meeting Business Skills Workshop on June 14 & 15, a pre-conference workshop on the importance of animal models in research on June 15, and various vendor user group meetings.

As a core director/manager at UNC Chapel Hill you have access to ABRF member pricing! Please contact Kara Clissold at corefacilities@med.unc.edu if you have questions about your ABRF membership.

Early bird registration closes May 1st!

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