Unit Type: Core Facilities

The UNC Zebrafish Aquaculture Core Facility provides zebrafish husbandry and training services to researchers at UNC-CH.

The Vironomics core is designed to facilitate research labs at UNC by performing large-scale Real Time PCR reactions and high throughput sequencing using Roche 454 GS Junior.

Our mission: to provide researchers with a single facility where they can access a comprehensive range of resources and services for gene transfer research.

Services: tissue procurement, blood procurement and processing, quality assurance/histopathologic review, support of oncology clinical trials, other biospecimen collection and banking, tissue sectioning, nucleic acid isolation, database management and tissue bank searches, and alternate collection sites.

The Rapid Case Ascertainment Core now offers our services to obtain medical records from hospitals, free-standing cancer centers, clinics, physician’s offices, and other treatment facilities for consenting patients participating in approved research projects.

The R. L. Juliano Structural Bioinformatics Core Facility (SBI Core) is a computational core that trains researchers in computational structural biology techniques.

The Pharmacometrics Core is equipped to assist investigators at each step in the pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic research process, from study design and data analysis to publication.

The Oligonucleotide Synthesis Core Facility produces and purifies oligonucleotides for use in genetic research experiments, such as PCR, DNA sequencing, primer extension, and as hybridization probes.

The Nutritional Biochemistry and Metabolomics Core provides assistance for nutritional biochemical and molecular biological techniques and cutting edge metabolomic capabilities.

The Diet, Physical Activity and Body Composition Core provides methodological resources and expertise for dietary intake, physical activity and body composition in the human population.