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The Mason Gross Documentary Film Lab partners with scientists, artists, researchers, and community leaders within the university and around the world to create dynamic nonfiction films that reach a large audience. Uniquely creative and intentionally interdisciplinary, the lab team produces professional broadcast-ready documentaries while involving students at every level of production.

The Materials Science Department occupies over 60,000 square feet of research laboratories including multiple capabilities available for users on a fee-for-service basis.

The Metabolic Phenotyping Core Facility provides investigators with services to comprehensively assess metabolism in rodents. This is particularly relevant if one is interested in understanding the role of genes or drugs in controlling metabolism. Given the huge cost of the obesity and diabetes epidemic, this has potential relevance to many investigators at Rutgers that do not work on metabolism, but may have stumbled upon a metabolic phenotype that may potentially have relevance for obesity and diabetes.

The facility provides advice on experimental design and metabolic phenotyping capabilities such as Indirect calorimetry, body composition, metabolic turnover studies and hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp analysis in live animals, that includes data analysis and interpretation. 

This shared resource pushes the frontiers of tumor metabolism measurements and provides Rutgers Cancer Institute members with easy, cost-effective access to these capabilities. The overarching objective is to enable scientific discoveries that significantly impact cancer diagnosis and therapy.

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The microbiome analysis lab offers genome characterization of complex samples to allow organism identification.

The Molecular and Genomics Informatics Core is designed to provide bioinformatics research services to members of the Rutgers community as a whole and industry collaborators.

The mission of the Molecular and Genomics Informatics Core is to support cutting edge researchers by providing expertise in high-throughput computational analyses. This is to be provided by utilizing up-to-date pipelines for expediting standard workflows, and implementing custom bioinformatics analyses to accommodate the myriad of solutions for academic research. MaGIC will also emphasizes training opportunities by providing remote bioinformatics learning tools, project support and assistance on request, and regular courses.

Services Provided

Whole Genome Sequencing analysis: Variant analysis; De novo assembly
Transcriptome sequencing analysis: Differential gene expression; Pathway analysis
Single cell transcriptome sequencing analysis: Base single cell analysis; Hash-tagged single cell analysis; CITE-seq single cell analysis
Epigenetic sequencing analysis: ChIP-Seq differential peak analysis; ATAC-seq differential peak analysis
Amplicon Sequencing Analysis: Unique amplicon quantification; 16s Metagenomics sequencing analysis; VDJ sequencing diversity analysis
Custom services to include: Hourly consultations; Tool/pipeline development; Web interface development
Anticipated Future Services: Integration of metabolomic and proteomic data analysis; Statistical support for large data set analyses

The Natural Products and Bioanalysis Core provides botanical and food product authentication, adulteration, botanical integrity, nutraceuticals, food quality and safety, metabolism, bioavailability and PK studies of natural products, metabolomics and proteomic studies using state-of-the-art analytical instrumentation. Our core also focuses on basic and applied foods, flavor and aroma chemistry and product quality control.

Rutgers Cancer Institute is excited to announce a new organoid development shared resource (ODSR) that is being operationalized under the leadership of Faculty Director Michael Verzi, PhD, and with the full support of Shared Resource Management. The service is being developed in response to enthusiastic member support from surveys performed in 2018 and 2022.

The mission of the ODSR is to offer Rutgers Cancer Institute researchers advanced cancer models of tumor initiation and growth utilizing three-dimensional culture techniques to maintain patient-derived cells, perform drug testing studies in optimized protocols, and support the development of 3-D cultures for basic researchers.

The Research Pathology Services mission is to support research in animal models of human disease by providing histology techniques and veterinary pathology services. With expertise in a wide range of mammalian and non-mammalian species, the Facility assists investigators with the selection of animal models, design of experiments, analysis of gross and microscopic tissues, and interpretation of findings.

The Rutgers University Center of Ocean Observing Leadership integrates across interdisciplinary scientific research, education and outreach and the application of an operational ocean observing system. Faculty and students comprising the scientific teams participate in collaborative research programs in which academic, industry and government partnerships are forged between physicists and biologists, between scientists and engineers, and between observationalists and modelers. The education group is the focal point for outreach activities to the K-12 community and to non-science majors within Rutgers. The Operations Center maintains a sustained coastal ocean observatory that provides real-time ocean data to the research and education groups and also serves as the training ground for Operational Oceanography students.

The COOL Operations Center maintains the world’s most advanced coastal ocean observatory. State-of-the-art sampling capabilities are continuously upgraded as new technologies developed and demonstrated by the research group are immediately transitioned into the operational setting of the Center. Cost-effective sustained spatial sampling of the coastal ocean is accomplished with a variety of new platforms and sensors that include: (1) the local acquisition of satellite imagery from the international constellation of thermal infrared and ocean color sensors, (2) a triple-nested multi-static HF radar network for surface current mapping and waves, and (3) a fleet of long-duration autonomous underwater gliders equipped with physical and optical sensors,  Raw datasets are shared with a variety of super-users throughout the U.S. for real-time backups, data archiving, and advanced product generation. Operational data products are produced in real time and displayed on the World Wide Web for use by scientists, educators, decision-makers and the general public.