Spatial Biology Seminar hosted by the Pathology Services Core
2025-07-15 11:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
We are excited to invite you to an upcoming seminar hosted by the UNC Pathology Services Core (PSC), highlighting cutting-edge advancements in spatial transcriptomics and in situ gene expression profiling.

Join us as we explore the powerful capabilities of 10x Genomics’ Visium Spatial and Xenium In Situ platforms—technologies that are transforming how we understand tissue architecture and cellular function.
🍽 Lunch will be provided.

Featured Speaker:
🔹 Dr. Kathryn Gessner – UNC Research Assistant Professor, Lineberger Cancer Center
Presenting Xenium spatial data generated right here at UNC.
🔹Poster presentations showcasing research from UNC colleagues
You’ll also have the chance to engage with experts from 10x Genomics and learn how these platforms can enhance your research by providing unparalleled resolution and spatial context.

💬 One-on-one Consultations Available!
Consultations with the PSC will be available from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM on the day of the event.
Book your consultation today to discuss your project needs and learn how we can support your spatial biology workflows.
Can’t make that time? No problem—consultations are also available by appointment year-round.

🔗 Register here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1GAq7R3FJxCDpP1BIn6c-9_SGRHjBYDoFtedMXs6V_NQ/viewform?ts=684c343f&edit_requested=true
(Or QR code in attached Flyer)

For questions, feel free to reach out to:
📩 PSC at gdelacruz@med.unc.edu

Agenda
11am: PSC, UNC-CH
11:10am: Ryan Mote, 10x-Genomics
12:00pm: Kate Gessner, UNC-CH
12:30 pm: Kaleb Naegeli, Humacyte
12:50pm: BARC, UNC-CH

We hope to see you there!

Soft Matter Infrastructure Symposium
2025-06-10 12:00 - 14:10
Building upon the success of the Research Triangle Nanotechnology Network, planning has begun between UNC-CH, NCSU, Duke, and the University of Kansas to create a community formed around soft-matter infrastructure across our region and beyond. On June 10th, we will be hosting a virtual kick-off from 12pm – 2:10pm and we’d be delighted if you and interested members in your group can join us. The agenda is attached and can also be found here. There is no cost to attend.

Please distribute the attached flier to your networks who want to:

Become part of a community of users and researchers who leverage soft-matter shared research infrastructure
Identify soft-matter fabrication and characterization capabilities across the US that should be developed locally
Provide input on services and support that will be most helpful to their research in soft matter

Discuss emerging technologies and vision for supporting the future of soft-matter research

Register here and contact Cynthia Corley or Bob Geil with any questions. Please also consider joining our LinkedIn group here to continue the conversation after the symposium.

Best regards,
The Soft Matter Infrastructure Symposium Planning Committee

Core Facility Advocacy Meeting
2025-05-14 09:00 - 11:00
Want to suggest an agenda item? Contact your CFAC representative or ORT ahead of the meeting to suggest an agenda item.

ABRF Workshop: AI In Bioimaging
2025-05-13 12:00 - 13:00
Due to overwhelming demand for the “AI in bio imagining” workshop at this year’s ABRF meeting, the series will continue:
Tuesday, May 13
12:00 – 1:00 pm ET
Register here:
https://lnkd.in/gjWn56S3
The first several sessions will replicate some of the workshop content. The first part will use AI in Fiji, led by David Kirchenbuchler.

This session is available to core facility directors and staff. If you have not activated your ABRF membership through UNC Chapel Hill’s institutional membership, please reach out to Kara Clissold (kara_clissold@med.unc.edu)

Core Staff Recognition Awards Due
2025-05-02 08:00 - 17:00
Nominations close for the UNC Spring 2024 Core Facility Staff Recognition Program. Get your nominations in! Core staff can be nominated for an award in one of three areas:

Technical Achievement
Customer Service
Performance Excellence

Mass Spectrometry Seminar Series
2025-04-23 12:00 - 13:00
Please join the UNC Metabolomics and Proteomics Core for a lunch and learn presented by Seer‘s Senior Field Applications Scientist, Dr. Pierre Mbarushimana. Seer is a biotech company dedicated to transforming proteomics through innovative nanoparticle technology. By enabling the comprehensive and unbiased analysis of proteins across a wide dynamic range, Seer’s platform empowers researchers to uncover novel biomarkers, accelerate drug discovery, and advance precision medicine.

Lunch will be provided but spots are limited, so please RSVP here to attend.

Details:
When? Wednesday April 23, 2025; 12-1PM
Where? 2004 Marsico Hall (and virtually)
What’s it about? Attending the Seer seminar will provide you with insights into an advanced nanoparticle technology that enables researchers to enrich both low- and high-abundance proteins across various sample types. By coupling Seer’s automated nanoparticle enrichment platform with mass spectrometry, researchers can measure and quantify thousands of proteins that were previously undetectable. Additionally, we will present research and clinical studies that have leveraged this technology to identify novel biomarkers and drug targets.

Zeiss CD7 Demo
2025-04-21 08:00 - 2025-04-25 17:00
The Neuroscience Microscopy Core is excited to be hosting the Zeiss CD7 demo 4/21-4/25.
Some of the many capabilities of this microscope includes:
-long term imaging with incubation
-widefield to confocal workflows
-a special objective for organoids/thick samples for deep higher resolution imaging.
For more information on the demo and to sign up for a one on one imaging session, please see the flyer.

Core Director Meeting
2025-04-14 09:30 - 11:00 | BioInformatics Building Room 1131
Come join us for a Core Director Meeting

Monday April 14, 2025 from 9:30 – 11:00 AM

In person:
Bioinformatics 1131

Zoom link:
Topic: UNC Core Director’s Meeting
Time: Apr 14, 2025 09:30 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://zoom.us/j/95710442070

Meeting ID: 957 1044 2070

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CFAC Travel Award Applications Due
2025-01-31 17:00
he UNC Core Facility Director and Staff Travel Awards are designed to encourage attendance of core facility directors and staff at regional, national, or international conferences..There will be two award cycles per year, and within each award cycle up to 5 awards of up to $1,000 will be awarded.
Awards are intended to enable core directors and staff to participate in continuing education within their field and to stay abreast of ongoing technological and service advancements that will benefit their core and the UNC research enterprise.
Awards will be decided by the School of Medicine Office of Research Technologies and the Core Facility Advocacy Committee.

The applications will be scored based on the following criteria:

Will conference attendance Impact applicant’s professional development
Will conference attendance result in new method development within the core:
Will conference attendance Result in new technological capabilities within the core:
Will conference attendance Improve core operations and management (training customers or staff, business management, marketing, etc.):

For more details and to access the application: https://www.med.unc.edu/corefacilities/travel-awards/

Cytek Biosciences ImageLearn Live (UNC Flow Cytometry Core event)
2025-01-23 13:00 - 15:00, 2025-01-22 13:00 - 15:00
The UNC Flow Cytometry core, which houses a Cytek ImageStream, invites you to attend a webinar hosted by Cytek:

We are excited to invite you to our upcoming ImageLearn Live educational webinar series “Insights Into Amnis® Imaging Flow Cytometry – Basic and Advanced Techniques with the ImageStream® System”. This webinar consists of 2 sessions.

Date: Wednesday, January 22, 2025 & Thursday, January 23, 2025

Time: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PST / 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST

Duration: Each Session is 2 Hours

Key Topics: Sample Acquisition, Compensation, Image Analysis, Machine Learning, and Data Reporting

Speakers: Garry Cuneo, Senior Field Applications Specialist, and Rich DeMarco, Senior Field Applications Specialist

Register Here: https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/5088136736051939930

Who Should Attend? This webinar is ideal for current as well as prospective users of the Cytek® Amnis® ImageStream® imaging flow cytometer interested in learning more about acquisition and analysis. Key topics discussed in this webinar include a general overview of sample acquisition, basic data analysis, and advanced data analysis. The techniques discussed will be applicable across all imaging applications.

ABRF Peer Mentoring Session
2024-12-17 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-11-19 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-10-15 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-09-17 14:00 - 15:00, 2024-08-20 14:00 - 15:00
Join your ABRF colleagues to discuss shared questions, common challenges, or issues that you’re facing in your career or professional journey. The monthly ABRF Peer Mentoring conversations are scheduled for:
Third Tuesdays of the Month
2:00 – 3:00 pm ET
Register here.
Held monthly, these peer-to-peer mentoring discussions will be an opportunity to learn from one another and to identify new ideas or approaches to situations you may face within your roles.
Similar to an informal mentoring program, these small-group conversations are an opportunity to leverage the diverse experiences and abilities within the ABRF Community.
Possible topics for peer conversations include:
– Professional development options
– Core facility career paths
– Balancing cost recovery with the need to be cutting edge
– Authorship and tracking publications
– Training
The specific number and topics discussed during the Peer Mentoring Conversations will be determined by the participants. Everyone will have the opportunity to move among topics based on their interests and the value they receive from the discussions.
Register today and include any suggested topics you’d like to discuss with your ABRF peers. Capacity for this pilot Peer Mentoring Conversation session will be limited, so sign up today to save your seat.
Feel free to contact us if you have any questions or suggestions. We look forward to seeing you.

CFAC Meeting
2024-12-11

Fall Core Facility Staff Recognition Award Nomination Deadline
2024-11-30

UNC Mass Spectrometry Imaging Workshop
2024-11-13 11:00 - 14:00

CFAC Meeting (Voucher Program Evaluation)
2024-11-13

ILab Information Session
2024-11-06 10:30 - 11:30

Fall Core Facility Staff Recognition Awards Open
2024-11-01

OVCR Funding Request Deadline
2024-10-31

Core Facility Showcase
2024-10-22 10:00 - 12:00 | Koury Oral Health Sciences Building, 385 S Columbia St, Chapel Hill, NC
Core Facility Showcase

When: Tuesday October 22, 2024 10 am – 12 pm

Where: Koury Oral Health Sciences lobbies (entrance off of either Manning or S Columbia St

What: Core facilities from UNC Chapel Hill will have a poster session and information available for existing and new customers. Come learn about new instrumentation or services in the core labs, pick up some swag, and discuss upcoming research needs.

Who: Core directors and managers across the disciplines will be present. Attendees from all sectors are welcome!

Are you a core director interested in attending? Please fill out the registration form here by October 1, 2024: https://unc.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0pvo9Ng6atpoXjM

Food will be provided to attendees who have their sign in sheet initialed by the requisite number of core directors!

Check out the website for more information closer to the event: https://www.med.unc.edu/corefacilities/core-showcase/
Questions? Contact Kara Clissold at kara_clissold@med.unc.edu

CFAC Meeting (RFA Evaluation Meeting)
2024-10-09 08:00 - 17:00

BRIC Small Animal Imaging Facility Imaging Seminar: TriTom – a multimodal platform for in vivo 3D imaging of small animals
2024-09-26 13:00 - 14:00
Date & Time: Thursday, September 26th, 1:00 -2:00 PM, followed by online demo and Q&A 2:00-3:00 PM
Location: Marsico Hall, Room 2004
Title: TriTom – a multimodal platform for in vivo 3D imaging of small animals
Speaker: Dr. Sergey Ermilov, PhotoSound, Inc.

Abstract:
The TriTom platform is designed for in vivo molecular, physiological, and anatomical imaging of preclinical murine models. It employs co-registered photoacoustic and fluorescence imaging channels enabling high-fidelity visualization of regions that either absorb light or fluoresce at imaging depths up to 20-40 mm. A typical 36-sec long TriTom 3D scan interrogates a large volume of tissue (> 25 cm3) producing molecular maps accurately registered to 3D anatomy (high-resolution blood circulatory system, internal organs, and skin). TriTom visualizes oxyhemoglobin, deoxyhemoglobin, and melanin without a need to use contrast agents, enabling spatially-resolved longitudinal assessment of vascular morphology and density, blood oxygenation, ischemia, tumor growth and metastasis. TriTom also provides quantitative in vivo imaging for a wide range of nanoparticles and molecular probes that absorb light in 460 nm – 1320 nm spectral range, and for fluorescent molecular probes with excitation between 460 nm and 800 nm, enabling applications in toxicology and targeted molecular imaging. With powerful and unique in vivo imaging capabilities, TriTom presents new ways to study live small animal models in a number of preclinical applications including cancer, toxicology, tissue engineering and regeneration, developmental biology, neuroscience, as well as in the development of drugs, therapies, optical and fluorescent molecular probes.

More information: https://www.med.unc.edu/bric/small-animal-imaging/small-animal-imaging-seminar/

You are welcome to forward the email to anyone who might be interested.
(Coffee and snacks will be served)

CFAC Voucher Program Applications DUE
2024-09-23 23:00
ORT and CFAC are excited to announce that we will once again hold a SOM Core Facility Voucher Program and ask that you forward this information to your customer e-mail lists and send to your department for distribution on departmental list servs.

The voucher program is intended for UNC researchers (from any school) to apply for up to $10,000 in funding to be spent at one or more SOM core facilities which invoice for services. This is specifically intended for NEW method development or PILOT DATA for currently unfunded projects that ALSO meets one of the following criteria:

Establishes the applicant as a new customer of at least one core facility
Creates a multi-core pipeline
Allows a customer of a core facility to use a new technique or methodology within a core they have previously used in other capacities (this is at the discretion of the core director)

Applicants (who may be PIs or trainees) will be required to meet with and have the written approval of the core directors for core facilities they intend to use at the time of submission and must plan to fully spend out their funds by June 30, 2025. Carry-over of funds is not guaranteed, and applicants should be aware that the technical feasibility to complete the study within the proposed timeframe will be an important factor in award decisions.

Cores which can be used are limited to those administered by the School of Medicine or who serve a majority-SOM customer base. To request an eligibility review of a non-SOM core, please e-mail kara_clissold@med.unc.edu.

Please find the RFA and list of eligible cores attached and all information, including necessary documentation, a submission form template to aid in organizing the application, core director/applicant signature forms, and submission instructions, can be found on the ORT/CFAC Voucher Program’s Website: https://www.med.unc.edu/corefacilities/core-voucher-program/

Applications for the Voucher Program are now open for submission and will be due September 23, 2024 at 11:59 pm

Please direct any questions about this program to Kara Clissold in the SOM Office of Research Technologies at kara_clissold@med.unc.edu

Mass Spectrometry Symposium and MAP Core Open House
2024-09-18 09:00 - 17:00 | G-202 MBRB
UNC Thermo Mass Spec Symposium and MAP Core Open House

CFAC Fall RFA Applications Due
2024-09-13
CFAC Fall RFA applications are due for cores who have completed their annual survey. For more information contact kara_clissold@med.unc.edu

Super Resolution Microscopy Summit
2024-09-12 13:00 - 20:00
From the Neuroscience Microscopy Core:

ONI is sponsoring a Super-Res Summit next Thursday, September 12th in Chapel Hill.

Please see the link for details.
https://sites.google.com/oni.bio/super-res-summit-chapel-hill/home
