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  Joshua Strauss, Ph.D., Director ´óÏó´«Ã½ Cryo-EM Core   News contributed by Emily Robinson, Research Technician, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Cryo-EM Core The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Chapel Hill School of Medicine’s Cryo Electron Microscopy Core is excited to announce that were awarded North Carolina Biotechnology Center Innovation Impact Grant (GII) for the acquisition of a...

The Office of Sponsored Programs is working to improve the rate review process. Part of that effort has resulted in a new set of operating plan and rate development worksheet documents. Cores should use the following  documents and the new fillable pdf operating plan for all new rate review requests...

Congrats to ORT’s own Dr. Christopher Gregory on the publication of : “Addressing the Environmental Impact of Science Through a More Rigorous, Reproducible, and Sustainable Conduct of Research” in the Journal of Biomolecular Technique.    The importance of core facilities can be felt far beyond the research enterprise. This article highlights...

´óÏó´«Ã½ Health’s News Room recently highlighted a Nature Communications article authored by our own Blossom Damania, PhD (Vice Dean for Research in the School of Medicine and Boshamer Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and Immunology) and Dirk Dittmer, PhD (Director of the Vironomics Core and Professor of Microbiology and Immunology). The...

  The MAD SSCi Conference is right around the corner! Registration for the 2023 conference will open soon. The theme of this year’s meeting will be “Cultivating Collaboration”. Meeting features include an opening reception at the Friday Conference Center, a Keynote lecture, two plenary lectures, scientific topic sessions, core administrative sessions, round...

Michelle Itano, PhD, an assistant professor in the ´óÏó´«Ã½’s Department of Cell Biology and Physiology and director of the Neuroscience Microscopy Core at the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Neuroscience Center.   Michelle Itano, PhD, an assistant professor in the ´óÏó´«Ã½â€™s Department of Cell Biology and Physiology, is...

  Dr. Michelle Itano, director of the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Neuroscience Center’s Microscopy Core, has launched a first-of-its-kind partnership with Leica Microsystems. This new Partner in Microscopy relationship offers unique opportunities for collaboration and feedback between ´óÏó´«Ã½ researchers and Leica Microsystems. The partnership was launched September 20, 2022. Congratulations...

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – September 1, 2022 – The ´óÏó´«Ã½ Nutrition Research Institute is pleased to announce that its laboratory directed by Saroja Voruganti, PhD, has been granted a Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification, allowing its lab to conduct Human DNA genotyping as a service for other researchers, scientists, and professionals...