Cores Directory

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Listing of research core items

  1. Instrument/equipment
    Photo of a room showing 3 testing computers

    Group behavioral testing

    The BrainWorks Lab for Accelerated Subject Testing (BLAST) provides space for running up 3-6 participants simultaneously in a behavioral paradigm.

    Located within BrainWorks

    Roeland Hancock

    Director
  2. Instrument/equipment

    Biocore 8K SPR (Surface Plasmon Resonance) system

    State-of-the-art Biacore™ 8K SPR system from Cytiva, part of the advanced Biacore™ 8 series.

    Yulia Surovtseva, PhD

    Director
  3. Core/facility

    Keck Bioinformatics Resource

    The Bioinformatics Resource offers software support; consultation on DNA/protein sequence, microarray, protein structure, and pathway analysis; and collaboration.

  4. Core/facility

    Keck Biophysical Resource

    As of 2026, the Keck Biophysical Resource will no longer be available for services except for NIDA investigators, who will still have access to some technologies.   

    Ewa Folta-Stogniew, PhD, MSc

    Director (Retired)
  5. Core/facility

    Keck Biostatistics Resource

    We offer consultation related to statistical and computational analysis of various types of biological and biomedical data, such as gene expression, genotyping, mass spectrometry, and next-generation sequencing.

    Hongyu Zhao, PhD

    Primary contact Director
  6. Core/facility

    Biostatistics Shared Resource

    Our highly interactive team of cancer biostatisticians works collaboratively with basic, clinical, translational, and population science researchers to advance the frontiers of cancer medicine and public health.

    Wei Wei, PhD

    Director
  7. Instrument/equipment

    Bruker Luxendo light sheet microscope

    Bruker Luxendo light sheet microscope

    Mateus Guerra, PhD

    Primary contact Associate Director
  8. Instrument/equipment

    Bruker Opterra II swept-field microscope

    Bruker Opterra II swept-field microscope

    Mateus Guerra, PhD

    Primary contact Associate Director
  9. Instrument/equipment

    Bruker Vutara 352 super-resolution microscope

    Bruker Vutara 352 super-resolution microscope

    Mateus Guerra, PhD

    Primary contact Associate Director
  10. Core/facility

    Catalysis and Separations Core

    The core enables data-centric research in the areas of catalysis and separations. It houses equipment for high throughput experimentation and analysis, separations of difficult mixtures (both chiral and achiral), and in operando monitoring of chemical reactions.

    Manisha Skaria

    Director
  11. Core/facility

    Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center (CBIC)

    The Chemical and Biophysical Instrumentation Center (CBIC) offers NMR spectroscopy, X-ray crystallography, mass spectrometry, and other instruments to characterize and structurally elucidate chemical and biophysical samples.

  12. Instrument/equipment
    Symphony Cell Sorter

    BD Symphony S6 cell sorter

    Sort into 5 mL round tubes, 15 mL conical tubes, or plates (24-, 48-, and 96-well) with 5 lasers (UV, violet, blue, yellow/green, red) and 23 detectors (6 UV, 6 violet, 4 blue, 4 yellow/green, 3 red).

    Fiona Hall, PhD

    WCFC Director