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Core facilities play an integral role in our research infrastructure, empowering researchers to break new ground by offering specialized laboratories with state-of-the-art equipment, unique instrumentation and shared services managed by scientists with the technical expertise and experience to help others.

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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.

    Key Resources Filmmaking opportunities; professional experience; production credit.
    Location New Brunswick/Piscataway
    Contact Name Thomas Lennon
    Contact Email TL625@mgsa.rutgers.edu
  • 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.

    Key Resources Additive manufacturing, Arc melting, Atomic force microscopy, Chemical Characterization and elemental analysis, Crystal growth by Czochralski (CZ) method, Electrical testing, Evaporators and films, Furnaces, Glass melting and characterization, Hot presses, Microscopy preparation, Electron Microscopy, Optical Microscopy, Mechanical properties, Non-destructive evaluation, Optical characterization and measurements, Particle and pore size analysis, Processing preparation, Processing, compaction and forming, Raman/FTIR/UV/Vis spectroscopy, Rheology, Synchrotron Probe testing, Thermal measurements, X-ray diffractometers
    Location New Brunswick/Piscataway
    Contact Name MSE Lab
    Contact Email mselabs@soe.rutgers.edu
  • 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. 

    Key Resources Eight cages of Comprehensive Laboratory Animal Monitoring System (CLAMS, Columbus Instrument) for indirect calorimetry; 16 TSE metabolic cages with environmental chambers for indirect calorimetry; EchoMRI-100 Whole-body body composition analyzer; Infusion pumps and swivel and tether systems for stable isotope tracer infusion; Anatomical Microscope and surgery station
    Location New Brunswick/Piscataway
    Contact Name Hyok Joon Kwon, PhD, Phone: (732) 235-4909
  • Metabolomics Shared Resource

    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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    Key Resources Metabolomics; mass spectrometry; isotope tracing; oncometabolomics; liquid chromatography; HPLC
    Location New Brunswick/Piscataway
    Contact Name Xiaoyang Su
    Contact Email xs137@rwjms.rutgers.edu
  • The microbiome analysis lab offers genome characterization of complex samples to allow organism identification.

    Key Resources Next generation sequencing; genomics; phylogenetics; bioinformatics; microbiome; bacteria
    Location New Brunswick/Piscataway
    Contact Name Gary Guojun Wu
  • 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

    Key Resources The MaGIC Core has developed and maintains several tools for investigator usage. These are designed to be utilized as secondary visualization analysis after primary analysis through the Core.
    • Fun Interactive RNASeq Expression Tool (FIRE-tool): RNAseq is a mainstream analysis methodology spanning most biological disciplines. This tool is to accept the raw feature counts from the RNAseq pipeline and bring about full visualization capabilities.
    Other tools under development:
    • scRNA
    • 16s Metagenomics
    • ATAC-seq
    Location Newark
    Contact Name Alexander Lemenze
  • NPBC Core Full Instruments View

    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.

    Key Resources Targeted metabolomic studies using UHPLC-QQQ/MS; Non-targeted metabolomic studies and proteomic studies using UHPLC-QTOF/MS; Quality control on natural products using LC/UV/MS; Chemical profiling, characterization and bioanalysis of aromatic volatile compounds and fatty acids using GC-QQQ/MS with headspace analysis; Structure elucidation of natural and synthetic compounds using NMR; Hemp analysis research lab
    Location New Brunswick/Piscataway
    Contact Name James Simon
    Contact Email jimsimon@rutgers.edu
  • Research Pathology Services

    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.

    Key Resources Pathology; histology; microscopy; necropsy; tissue sectioning; tissue staining; morphometric analysis; immunohistochemistry; electron microscopy
    Location New Brunswick/Piscataway
    Contact Name Michael Goedken
  • 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.

    Key Resources Teledyne Webb Slocum Gliders and onboard instrumentation
    Location New Brunswick/Piscataway
    Contact Name Michael Crowley
  • The Rutgers Clinical and Research Data Warehouse (CRDW) is a secure, HIPAA-compliant central repository that includes diverse healthcare data and essential analytical tools for gaining insights into medical conditions, outcomes, and treatments. 

    Key Resources Access to comprehensive clinical data; enhanced research capabilities through robust data analytics tools; efficient data management; collaborative opportunities.
    Location Other