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Registeration
Registeration
Registration
- To participate, register your core here
- In order to be featured on the Core Day webpage, upload your posters here by December 22, 2023
- Boards will be 40x60; recommended poster dimensions are 36x48
- Please have your poster set up by 1:45pm at the latest and plan to take your poster with you at the end of the event
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Participating Cores and Posters
Participating Cores and Posters
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:
Paul A. Baker -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Adaptive Human Performance Lab
The Adaptive Human Performance Lab (AHPL) was designed to provide innovative and extensive services for exercise, nutrition, physical activity, and health assessments and interventions for research related to improving physical and psychological well-being of people with disabilities.
Contact:
Rebecca Rogers -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
CCTS Bioinformatics
CCTS Bioinformatics assists in experimental design and the collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of biomedical data to help with publications, grants, and future research.
CCTS Bionutrition
CCTS Bionutritionconnects investigators with approved dietary protocols, study planning, registered dieticians, cooks, facilities, and equipment in support of human nutrition studies.
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.
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.
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.
CCTS Engagement of Communities
The CCTS supports the development of authentic partnerships between researchers and the populations we serve. Through our Engagement of Communities domain, we provide learning and collaboration opportunities to a wide variety of community stakeholders.
CCTS Informatics
CCTS Informatics connects investigators with biomedical data and analytics.
CCTS Partner Network
The missionof the CCTS Partner Network is to discover and advance scientific findings that can ameliorate disparities in chronic diseases disproportionately affecting the under-represented communities we serve.
CCTS Research Commons
CCTS Research Commons connects investigators to translational expertise and platforms that accelerate the pace of discovery, thereby improving health and healthcare access in our region.
CCTS Specimen Processing and Biorepository
The CCTS Specimen Processing and Biorepository specializes in research based clinical specimen processing and biobankingwith barcoded inventory management. Our lab is located within the CCTS Clinical Research Unit (CRU) in Jefferson Tower. More complex blood processing occurs in our facility located in Shelby 230.
CCTS Training Academy
theacademic career arc including graduate and postgraduate students, staff professionals, early career and established faculty and the community.
Center For AIDS Research
The UAB CFAR cores provide an exceptionally cost-effective mechanism for supporting and stimulating cutting-efge HIV research that is available to researchers at UAB and external collaborating institutions.
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.
Contact:
Amy Miller -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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.
Contact:
Racheal Nerud -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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:
Cheryl Perry, PhD -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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.
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.
Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (CEMF)
The Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (CEMF) advances the overall UAB mission by supporting the application of cryo-EM in making new scientific discoveries. We provide access and training in the use of cutting edge cryo-EM technology and techniques for the characterization of biological samples from the cellular to the atomic scale.
Contact:
James Kizziah, Ph.D. -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Terje Dokland, Ph.D. -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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:
Vidya Sagar Hanumanthu -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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.
HUMI - Human Imaging
The Human Imaging Shared Facility (HISF) provides advanced medical imaging resources and services in support of campus wide research, including the O’Neal Cancer Center clinical studies.
Contact:
HUMI - Human Imaging -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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:
Heather Hunter -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Dr. Barbara Gower -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Mixed Methods, CBPR and Qualitative Research Approaches
The Mixed Methods Research-Community Based Participatory Research-Qualitative Research Approaches (MMR-CBPR-QR) Core was developed following the increase in recognition of these approaches in social and behavioral sciences, and in the increased calls by funders for research using these methodologies.
Contact:
Nataliya Ivankova -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Ronit Elk -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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:
Edlue Tabengwa -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
NORC Metabolism Core
The NORC Metabolism Core Physical Activity Laboratory is located on the 2nd floor in the Susan Mott Webb Bldg. Equipment located in our facility include treadmills, bike ergometers, weight training stations, and several thousand pounds of free weights designed to work all the large muscle groups of the body.
Contact:
David Bryan -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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.
Research MRI Core (RMRIC)
The Research MRI Core provides resources at UAB for state-of-the-art magnetic resonance imaging experiments and analyses for examining brain and body anatomy and function both in health and disease.
Contact:
RMRIC -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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:
Kirk Habegger, Ph.D. -
Office - 205-934-9835; SHEL 1213
Lab - 205-934-9836; SHEL 1230
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:
Jordyn Wheeler -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Sharon Samuel -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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:
James George, PhD -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Small Animal Phenotyping Core
Contact:
Daniel L. Smith, Jr, Ph.D. -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Maria S. Johnson, Ph.D. -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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:
SDHC -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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:
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. 
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:
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. 
The Bio-Analytical Redox Biology Core
The Bio-Analytical Redox Biology (BARB) Core provides state-of-the-art services in mitochondrial metabolism, oxidative stress, psychological and physiological stress assessment research in diabetes, obesity, exercise, pediatric neonatology, cancer, aging, optometry, microbiology, neurobiology, nutrition, pain, psychology, urology, and cardiometabolic disease research on a fee-for-service basis.
Contact:
Dr. Melissa Sammy, PhD -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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:
Dr. John Parant -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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:
UBDS -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
UAB Integrative Center for Aging Research
The UAB Integrative Center for Aging Research (ICAR) is a University-Wide Interdisciplinary Research Center. The mission of this interdisciplinary community is to promote the health and well-being of older adults and their families through research, education and outreach initiatives.
Contact:
SDHC -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
UAB Kinome Core
Kinomics is the study of the kinome, a global description of kinases and kinase signaling. In our facility, we utilize the PamStation®12 (PamGene International) Kinomic Array platform to study the kinome. This system utilizes a high content peptide microarray containing phosphorylatable tyrosine (PTK chip) or serine/threonine (STK chip) residues within kinase substrates.
Contact:
Joshua Anderson PhD -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Christopher Willey, MD, PhD -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
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:
Kyoko Kojima -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
UAB PharmacoEpidemiology and Economic Research Group (PEER)
The PEER Group is dedicated to rigorous, multi-disciplinary data analysis intended to improve public health. We support the research and training missions of UAB and welcome opportunities to collaborate with research groups within and external to the University.
Contact:
Jeffrey Curtis, MD MS MPH -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 
Vision Science Research Center, Molecular and Cellular Analysis Core
Support Services- Ocular phenotyping
- Analysis of electrical output of CNS tissues
- Biostatistics (provided by CCTS BERD unit)
Contact:
Jose Luis Roig-Lopez -This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
