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Parcellation of adult human brain in 3D, labeling every voxel with brain structure spanning 141 structures. These parcellations were drawn and adapted from prior 2D version of adult human brain atlas.
Core provides electron microscopy imaging and analytical characterization, surface analysis by XPS or Raman, access to instrumentation, training, and service for using scanning (SEM), transmission (TEM) and scanning transmission (STEM) electron microscopy, surface analysis and vibrational spectroscopy, specimen preparation.
Core provides access to computing infrastructure while offering technical support. Provide tools and instruction allowing for inclusion of high performance computing in classroom.
Core offers mass spectral proteomic analysis. Assists with qualitative and quantitative characterization of proteins in biological matrices such as plasma/serum, tissue, cell lines and other biological material to gain understanding of physiological pathways, molecular interactions and regulatory signaling.
Core offers services in cytometry and antibody technology, helps to design projects, data acquisition, analysis and/or interpretation beyond routine practices,critical drafting and/or revision of manuscript for intellectual content purposes.
Core provides sequencing resources. Service support for Illumina Next Generation and Sanger sequencing projects, from project design and sample preparation through downstream analysis. Provides DNA extraction, SNP genotyping, and fragment analysis services, and can facilitate custom projects upon request.
Core to assist researchers and students in their imaging needs of fluorescence and electron microscopy and to increase use of microscopes in science education. Consultation, training or touring facility is also available by appointment.
Core provides RNA library preparation services for Illumina, PacBio and Oxford Nanopore sequencing platforms. Single Cell RNA and Spatial Transcriptomics services are available with 10X Genomics technology. Provides RNA extraction, RNA QC and SNP genotyping and methylation bead array services. Provides support from project design through downstream analysis.Service facility, from hypothesis to publication.Microarray: expression and genotyping Affymetrix, Agilent, Nimblegen. Sequencing: RNA, gDNA, ChIP, Capture, 16SNovaSeq, HiSeq 2500, 3000, MiSeq.
Core dedicated to facilitation and development of congenic mice for pre clinical projects across United States. Provides genotyping, background checks to verify purity of mice DNA.
Core Facility provides expertise and advice for experimental design of transgenic or gene knockout experiments, including DNA construct production and genotyping assays, makes reagents available for generation of transgene or gene targeting constructs, and performs all experimental aspects, which include pronuclear injection of transgene constructs, generation of recombinant mouse ES cells, blastocyst injection, and embryo transfer surgeries, for generation or rederivation of genetically manipulated mouse strains. Transgenic founder mice or chimeric animals with targeted alleles are then transferred to individual investigator for analysis.
Provides electron microscopy services for faculty, staff and students of Dartmouth College community, including College, Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth Medical School, and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Provides training about how to use instruments and service assistance available for those unable to spend time on microscopes, and for processing of biopsy samples from DHMC.
Core provides murine echocardiography, blood pressure determinations, surgical procedures and phlebotomy, as well as assistance with mouse husbandry and genotyping.
Core offers high throughput screening of large chemical libraries of compounds to identify novel chemical entities that target biological system of interest.Provides target identification and validation, assay development, high throughput screening, hit confirmation, data mining and medicinal chemistry to facilitate hit to lead development.
Research oriented service laboratory providing informatics support to research community. Services include data analysis and mining in proteomics, genomics and chemistry, systems biology approaches such as pathway, network and interaction analyses, large scale statistical and machine learning studies, protein structure, function and stability prediction, sequence and domain analyses,d esign and implementation of relational databases and software programs, consultation on experimental design involving data acquisition, management and analysis, report, grant, and manuscript preparation.
Core provides synthetic chemistry expertise. Includes novel and commercially unavailable small molecules, fluorescent molecules and peptides. Assists in identifying hits for medicinal chemistry optimization in infectious disease targets and provides synthesis capabilities for structure activity studies. Core staff will work with investigators to design and synthesis novel molecular probes. Core provides access to model organism Danio rerio (zebrafish), and allows investigators to image embryonic and adult zebrafish treated with molecular probes for phenotypic drug discovery and other projects, encompasses Purification and Analysis Laboratory that provides purification, analysis and quality control of compounds via HPLC-MS, utilizes automated mass directed fractionation for purification in both reversed and normal phases (including chiral separations), provides relative purity analysis by UPLC coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometer for structure confirmation.
Core focuses on cloning, expression and purification of prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins for COBRE and other investigators in Kansas and region. Laboratory maintains equipment to support production of properly folded proteins in quantities suitable for structural studies (X-ray and NMR), functional studies (catalytic or biological), label-free binding studies (SPR) and/or high throughput (HTP) screening studies.
Basic research oriented core provides genomic services.Services include Next Generation Sequencing Solutions,DNA and RNA sequencing, Illumina, PacBio, NGS Library preparation including single-cell RNA-seq, Nucleic Acid Extraction Services, total RNA extraction from blood samples in PAXgene tubes, total RNA extractions from cell pellets and miRNA extraction from serum/plasma.
Core provides identification of proteins and metabolites with differential quantitative expression in cells, tissues or in protein affinity purifications. Particular emphasis is on quantitative analysis of posttranslational modifications such as phosphorylation.
Facility consists of a Beckman Coulter ProteomeLab XL-I analytical ultracentrifuge is configured with a scanning UV/Vis detection system and Rayleigh Interference Optics. Used to characterize variety of biophysical properties of macromolecules such as molecular weight, sedimentation coefficient, diffusion coefficient, equilibrium constant and stoichiometry. Can assess sample heterogeneity (aggregation and purity), molecular conformation (folded or unfolded), composition (assembled or unassembled) and thermodynamic properties of interacting systems. Provides spectrum of data for protein characterization in solution.
Core provides equipment with support of research technicians. Research animals are cared for in transient housing rooms. Multiple anesthesia systems and telemetry equipment are available. All procedures are reviewed by Rensselaer Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) and attending veterinarian. Fully outfitted sample and subject preparation workspaces also are available. Additional fees may be incurred for bioresearch animal technician assistance.