2022 Core Day - UAB Institutional Research Core Program

Animal Behavioral Assessment Core

The Behavioral Assessment Core provides a facility for the behavioral testing of mice and rats. Newly created transgenic mice can be analyzed using the most-accepted battery of behavioral tests, the SHIRPA (Rogers et al. 1997).

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Ayanabha Chakraborti - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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UAB Biological Data Science Core (U-BDS)

The UAB Biological Data Science Core (U-BDS) offers access to computational biology capabilities. We aim to provide services, foster long-term collaborations with the UAB research community, and provide training for biomedical investigators on a specific set of analysis tools and techniques.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Lara Ianov - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Liz Worthey - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Bio-Analytical Redox Biology (BARB) Core

The Bio-Analytical Redox Biology (BARB) Core promotes mitochondrial, metabolic, and redox biology research in diabetes, obesity, exercise, pediatric neonatology, cancer, aging, optometry, neurobiology, and cardiometabolic disease related research on a fee-for-service basis.

BARB Core service request form

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Melissa Sammy, PhD (Research Associate) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kelley Smith-Johnston, BS (Research Associate) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Multidisciplinary Molecular Interaction Core (MMIC)

The Multidisciplinary Molecular Interaction Core (MMIC) provides use of a Biacore T200 Biosensor Instrument that is capable of determining the binding kinetics, affinity, specificities, and thermodynamics of biomolecular interactions. The Biacore T200 uses surface plasmon resonance (SPR) technology to precisely monitor label-free binding activity between proteins, peptides, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, lipids or small drugs (200-1000 Daltons) in real-time.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Edlue Tabengwa - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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UAB O'Neal CCC Mass Spectrometry & Proteomics Shared Resource (MSPSR)

The UAB O’Neal CCC Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Shared Resource (MSP-SR) is a well-established and highly operative research core at UAB since 2007. As an institutionally designated core facility, the MSP-SR provides UAB investigators state-of-the-art capabilities in mass spectrometry, proteomics, and bioanalytical technologies.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Dr. James Mobley (Director of the facility) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Kyoko Kojima - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center

With over 35 years of continuous funding from the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, along with UWIRC support, the Gregory Fleming James Cystic Fibrosis Research Center has an extensive breadth of resources and expertise ranging from cutting-edge one-mircon resolution optical coherence tomography imaging to CF animal models to CFTR expression technology to ion channel analysis and more.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Emily Falk Libby - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Steven Rowe - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Center for Exercise Medicine

The UAB Center for Exercise Medicine (UCEM) focuses on improving the health and well-being of children and adults of all ages through acceleration of innovative, exercise-based interdisciplinary research across five pillars – precision, regeneration, rehabilitation, interaction, and sustainability.

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O'Brien Center for Acute Kidney Injury

We support shared core facilities to enhance collaborations and further research in kidney-related research, foster interactions among investigators from different backgrounds and disciplines whose shared interest is in kidney research, and provide intellectual resources and infrastructure to attract new and established investigators to AKI research.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Monica Vasiliu - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Center for Addiction and Pain Prevention and Intervention

The mission of CAPPI is to conduct cutting-edge research that can be developed into better treatments for addiction and pain. The faculty and staff in CAPPI seek to educate other professionals and the public about addiction and pain in a way that promotes compassion and minimizes the stigma of these two health conditions. CAPPI also serves as the focal point for community outreach in order to build effective partnerships with the communities we serve.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Dr. Caitlin Clevenger - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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High Resolution Imaging Facility Information

The High Resolution Imaging Facility (HRIF) provides state-of-the-art imaging resources and technical support to the UAB community. Â The HRIF offers electron microscopy and light microscopy including confocal, live cell, multi-photon, widefield, super resolution, sub-micron nanoparticle imaging and image analysis.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Shawn Williams - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Small Animal Imaging Facility

Small Animal Imaging Shared Facility provides state-of-the-art molecular imaging for preclinical studies in small animals, and support transition to human imaging studies. SAIF provide training to Cancer Center members in the applications of molecular imaging in cancer models. To establish methods for image analyses and maintain the instruments and keep them accurately calibrated.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Sharon Samuel - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Metabolism Core

The Metabolism Core provides state-of-the-art, cost-effective, centralized services for assessment of biochemical analytes, human body composition and energy metabolism, insulin sensitivity, and beta-cell function for research studies related to nutrition, obesity, and diabetes.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Heather Hunter - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Civitan International Neuroimaging Laboratory

The Civitan International Neuroimaging Lab serves as a core resource at UAB for neuroimaging experiments and analyses that examine brain anatomy and function in health and disease. In addition to brain research, the CINL facilities, equipment, and staff also support researchers using imaging in studying the spinal cord, eye, liver, skeletal muscle, heart, and kidney.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Eleanor Yourich - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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UAB Laser Microdissection Facility

Laser Microdissection enables users to isolate specific areas of tissue or cells for downstream analysis. The facility will offer training in acquiring transmitted and fluorescent images with wide-field microscope.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Xiuhong Song - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Dissemination, Implementation, and Improvement Science Core (DIISC)

DIISC is a subsidiary of the Center for Outcomes Effectiveness Research and Education UWIRC. DIISC provides group and one-on-one consultations to UAB investigators regarding projects and research proposals that include dissemination and implementation science aims and objectives.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Larry Hearld, Ph.D. - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Center For AIDS Research

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Center for AIDS Research (UAB CFAR), one of the seven original CFARs established by NIAID in 1988, has a rich history in HIV research, care, and treatment. Investigators at the UAB CFAR have deep expertise in the areas of basic science, prevention, clinical investigation, and engagement with the community.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Dr. Donna Porter - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Center for Outcomes and Effectiveness Research and Education

The COERE has a large, diverse membership including faculty and trainees spanning Divisions, Departments, Schools, Colleges and disease specific Centers at UAB. Facilitating networking and collaboration among members, the UAB COERE aspires to enhance the rigor of interdisciplinary outcomes research studies.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Madeline Gibson - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Macromolecular Structure Core

Cryo-EM and X-ray crystallography are complementary techniques that work in concert to resolve mechanistic aspects of biological processes. The MSC addresses the needs of investigators for both XRC and Cryo-EM in one unified core facility.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
James Kizziah - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Norbert Schorman - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Cystic Fibrosis Mouse Model Core

The CF Mouse Model Core distributes varieties of CF mice and CF mice with corrected or attenuated phenotypes to our CF research community, including CFTR knock out, Cftr deltaF508, Cftr G542X Knock In, Cftr G551D, Cftr delta10/delta10, Cftr cam TgG542X, Cftr delta10/delta10, B6 CFTR KO FABP-hCFTR and humanized CFTR mice.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Ming Du - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
David Bedwell - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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The Lung Health Center - MOPA Core

The Lung Health Center mission is to advance lung health in our state, region, and nation by fostering collaborative and innovative research for the prevention, diagnosis, prognostication, and treatment of lung disease. Current cores within the LHC include the Human Pulmonary Function Laboratory, the Biospecimen Repository, the Administrative core, the Multiplex Opsonophagocytosis Assay (MOPA) Core, Genomics Core, and the Imaging Core.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Elizabeth Westfall (LHC) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
David LaFon (MOPA) - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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ARP Comparative Pathology Lab and Gnotobiotic Mouse Core Facility

CPL Provides research pathology services: Embedding (OCT/Paraffin), H+E, special, and unstained tissue sections.
GMCF - Generate germ free and gnotobiotic mouse models for researchers at UAB.
Website: Gnotobiotic Mouse Core Facility

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Jeremy Foote - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Pathology Core Research Lab (PCRL)

The PCRL is a well-established lab providing state-of-the-art histology and histomorphometric analysis of various tissue types, including soft tissues, bones, teeth and engineered tissues. The lab provides general and complex histological services, including paraffin, frozen and plastic section histology, immunohistochemistry, Tissue MicroArray (TMA), and histomorphometry using the Bioquant Imaging Analysis System.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Dezhi Wang - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Targeted Metabolomics and Proteomics Laboratory (TMPL)

This Core specializes in the quantitative analysis of small molecules in biological systems. These can be cellular intermediates, bacterial products, food items, lipids and even peptides (proteins are metabolized, too!). The assays can be targeted or untargeted -omics. Optimized sample extraction is available.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Stephen Barnes - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Landon Wilson - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Social Determinants of Health Core

We provide one-on-one consultation on individual- and area-level measures of social determinants of health (SDH). Methodological expertise on obtaining and analyzing area- and individual-level SDH. Additionally we provide geo-linking services to obtain area-level SDH measures and integrate them with data from electronic health record, patient registries or cohorts, administrative claims, and other clinic or research data.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Elizabeth Baker - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Gabriela Oates - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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UAB Graduate School

The UAB Graduate School offers educational support and programs for graduate students, post-docs, and faculty involved in research and research focused graduate programs at UAB. Programs include certificates in Research Communication, Research Laboratory Management, Leadership and Professional Development, and Mentoring and Leadership.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Stacey S. Cofield, PhD - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Active Video Gaming and Virtual Reality Core

The purpose of the Active Video Gaming and Virtual Reality Core is to advance scientific knowledge related to gaming for health and disability and facilitate the implementation and evaluation of gaming interventions. Services include access to our state-of-the-art virtual reality and adaptive gaming systems, as well as consultations for designing and implementing adaptive gaming interventions and related grant proposals for people with disabilities.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Byron Lai - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Raven Young - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Microbiome Institutional Research Core

The Microbiome Institutional Research (MIRC) Core provides UAB investigators with access to cutting-edge analysis designed to investigate microbe community structure found on and within the human body and environmental communities. The use of a standardized analysis platform for 16S rRNA gene analysis allows investigators the capacity for analysis of microbial community. The cost for this service is $50/sample and includes the informatics to determine taxa and diversity metrics.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Dr. Casey Morrow - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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CFTR Protein Production Core

The CFTR Protein Production Core is supported and administered by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation and capitalizes on the CFTR protein expression and purification expertise at Dr. John Kappes' laboratory with Dr. Zhengrong Yang. Up to milligram quantities of analytically pure, properly folded, and biochemically active protein can be provided.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Zhengrong Yang - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Advanced Materials Characterization Core

We provide analysis and characterization of samples including elemental composition, chemical bonding, crystal structure, surface imaging at small scale, and chemical structure. The instruments we have for service are: X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and energy dispersive x-ray analysis.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Paul A. Baker - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS)

From bench to bedside, the CCTS is on a mission to improve health and health equity in communities across the deep south. By working together, we can accelerate the translation of fundamental and clinical research into improvements for human health and healthcare delivery.

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CCTS Informatics

CCTS Informatics provides bioinformatic and clinical informatic expertise and platforms that inform clinical study design through outcome analyses spanning the CCTS Hub, the CCTS Partner Network and national CTSA consortium.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Jake Chen, PhD
Geoff Gordon, MSEE
Matt Wyatt, MSHI
Elliot Lefkowitz, PhD

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CCTS Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD)

The CCTS Biostatistics, Epidemiology and Research Design (BERD) provides consultation, guidance and expertise on study design, data management and statistical analysis throughout the CCTS Partner Network.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
David Redden, PhD
Peng Li, PhD

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CCTS Research Commons

CCTS Research Commons aims to accelerate the pace of discovery by connecting investigators, through a variety of mechanisms, to expertise, platforms, technologies, facilities and resources located at the CCTS Hub, throughout the CCTS Partner Network and via the CTSA consortium.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Swathi Thaker, PhD
Anne Russell, PhD

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CCTS Training Academy

The CCTS Training Academy offers transdisciplinary, educational programs and enrichment activities for research teams spanning the academic research career arc across the CCTS Partner Network.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Jessica Bumpus, PhD
Jean Lambert, MS
Jeanne Merchant, MPH
Angela Henson
Molly Wasko, PhD

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CCTS Clinical Research Support Program (CRSP)

The CCTS Clinical Research Support Program (CRSP) provides clinical research training and support services that inform and enable clinical studies from regulatory approval through closeout.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Meredith Fitz-Gerald, RN, MSN

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CCTS Bionutrition

The Bionutrition Unit enables nutrition-related research, inclusive of a Metabolic Kitchen supporting nutritional requirements for outpatient studies, facilities and equipment to support onsite nourishment and metabolic analyses, study planning and nutrional education.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Ciara Mitchell, MA, RD, LD
Betty Darnell, MS, RD, LD

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CCTS Clinical Research Unit (CRU)

The Clinical Research Unit provides dedicated clinical space, equipment and nursing to support clinical studies involving outpatient visits at the CCTS Hub.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Joshua Vernon, MSN, RN
Orlando Gutierrez, MD

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Child Health Research Unit (CHRU)

The Child Health Research Unit provides dedicated clinical space, and essential equipment to support pediatric clinical studies requiring outpatient visits.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Melissa McBrayer
Cheryl Perry, PhD - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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CCTS Specimen Processing and Biorepository

The CCTS Specimen Processing and Biorepository Unit offers bedside to bench management of biospecimens collected for research purposes in accordance with best practices, barcoded inventory management, advanced processing and distrubtion.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Maitlyn Eady, MPH
Rachael Shevin
Jing Wu

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CCTS Engagement of Communities

The CCTS Engagment of Communities domain provides learning and collaboration opportunities to foster authentic partnership between investigators and the population we serve to establish shared research goals and speed the translation of knowledge into health improvements for all.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Clifford Kennon, EdS, MPA, CPP
Jennifer Croker, PhD

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Clinical Trials Initiative

Clinical Trials Initiative represents infrastructure enabling the design, implementation, execution and dissemination of clinical studies at the CCTS Hub, across the CCTS Partner Network and CTSA consortium.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Frannie Horn, JD, EdS
Mark Marchant, MPH, MBA, CCRP
Jason Nichols, OD, MPH, PhD, FAAO
Ashley Specht

Websites:
CCTS-Oncore
CCTS-Partnerships
Medicine-CTAO

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Small Animal Microsurgical Core

The UAB Small Animal Microsurgical Core Facility (UMCF) was originally established to fulfill an acute need for complex rodent microsurgical services in a cost-effective and timely manner on the UAB campus. Specific procedures include organ transplantation, models of ischemia reperfusion injury, cannulations, and other microvascular procedures.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Monica Vasiliu -
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Jennifer LaFontaine -
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Small Animal Glycemic Clamp Core

We provide various types of glucose clamps in conscious, unrestrained rodents to get a mechanistic interrogation of insulin action in whole body and insulin responsive tissues.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Teayoun Kim - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Shared Resource, O'Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center

BSBI Provide biostatistics and bioinformatics support of the O’Neal Comprehensive Cancer Center at UAB), which includes designing clinical trials, basic and translational research, and high throughput dataset analyses, as well as data mining from microarray, microbiomics, and other multi-omics analysis.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Sejong Bae - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Southeastern Biosafety Laboratory, Alabama, Birmingham

SEBLAB is one of 12 Regional Biocontainment Laboratories in the country dedicated to the study of emerging infectious diseases and biodefense. SEBLAB houses state-of-the-art biosafety level 3 and animal biosafety level three laboratories. SEBLAB can accommodate animal the size of fish to rabbits. SEBLAB is currently the only facility at UAB registered for Select Agents.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Moustafa Awaden, SEBLAB Biocontainment Manager - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Erik Dohm, SEBLAB Facility Director - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Justin Roth, UAB Biosafety Officer and Select Agent Responsible Official - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Hypertension Research Center

The UAB University-Wide Interdisciplinary Hypertension Research Center (UAB HRC) provides infrastructure to expand and accelerate research discoveries, train students, fellows and early stage investigators, recruit new faculty members focused on hypertension and sustain UAB as a world-renowned institution for hypertension research. Over 80 active HRC members at UAB have impressive portfolios of basic, clinical and population research funding that provide opportunities for interdisciplinary hypertension-related research activities.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Faith Lang - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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UAB Zebrafish Research Facility

The UAB Zebrafish Research Facility (ZRF) occupies ~5000 net square feet in the Research Support Building and includes2 recirculating aquaria systems (Aquaneering Inc. & Tecniplast) with centralized water conditioning and purification supplying 45 racks (>3100 3 L aquaria). The ZRF Procedural Laboratory includes five embryo processing stations (dissection microscopes, injectors, micromanipulators), incubators, a pipette puller, and two fluorescent microscopes, as well as other equipment needed for embryo manipulation and fish work.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Ryan Centini - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Katie Dorris - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Microbiome Center Culture Core

The UAB Microbiota Culture Core provides a variety of microbiota culture services, including Obtaining and growing defined bacteria from culture collections. We have an extensive library of bacteria, including many obligate gut anaerobes from human and mouse; Isolating and culturing bacteria from complex biological samples, including difficult to isolate bacterial families; and Recovery and freezing of anaerobic and aerobic microbiota to preserve and restore model organism phenotypes.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Wayne Duck - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Center for Palliative and Supportive Care

The UAB Center for Palliative and Supportive Care is a driving force in the field of palliative and supportive care, leading the way in competent and compassionate clinical care, collaborative research, community outreach and training. Our research is collaborative, extensive and reaches local, regional, national and international forums.

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Aras Acemgil - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Stacey Miller - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Martha Hilley - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Flow Cytometry and Single-Cell Core Facility

The facility provides services of flow cytometry analysis and is equipped with BD LSRII, BD Symphony A5, BD Symphony A3, BD LSR Fortessa, and Attune NxT custom-designed flow analyzers and Amnis ImageStream imaging flow cytometer. Sorting services are provided by the BD FACS ARIA II, ARIA SORP, BD FACS ARIA III, and BD Melody sorters.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Vidya Sagar Hanumanthu - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Transgenic and Genetically Engineered Models Core

The TGEMs Core is a centralized facility for the efficient production of genetically modified animal models for UAB investigators. Genetically engineered models (mice, rats and zebrafish) are produced by trained professionals at high standards of quality and with excellent efficiency. For the investigator, this approach means availability of highly specialized services at a reasonable cost.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Dr. Laura Lambert - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Megan Newton

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Animal Resources Program

ARP provides animal care, health surveillance, procurement, and husbandry for all UAB research animals. We strive to be partners to the UAB animal research community. ARP offers many services beyond simply providing husbandry for your animals, among them are trouble shooting problems with your animal models, help with IACUC protocols, training on both basic and advanced animal techniques, etc. ARP has over 100 staff that operate animal facilities in 13 different UAB buildings, one of which is approximately 30 miles East of campus.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Erik Dohm, ARP Executive Director - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Tim Crutchfield, ARP Financial Manager - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Jon McGill, ARP Operations Manager - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dale Payton, ARP Facility Manager - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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Nephrology Research and Training Center (NRTC)

The Nephrology Research and Training Center (NRTC) takes a multidisciplinary, interdepartmental approach to the study of kidney disease and physiology. Our mission is to focus on strategies that integrate basic concepts and clinical insights into translational research that should help in the understanding, prevention, and treatment of renal disease. Our vision is to improve health and well-being of those affected by kidney disease and hypertension through research and public awareness.

Contact and Breakout Room Staff:
Paul W. Sanders, MD - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Monica Vasiliu, PhD - This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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