The University of California, Santa Cruz community is home to several shared biomolecular resource facilities that can be accessed by our researchers and beyond. Here is a summary list prepared by the CSC, last updated on Jan 27, 2023 (if you work for a UCSC Core Facility, add its information to my list using this form). You can also go to a self-updating, public list on Core Marketplace of those with RRIDs. To add your facility, go here. To use the logo shown above (in a few different formats) and a slide with the list of facilities, see this slide deck.
| Facility | Contacts | Resources |
|---|---|---|
| Chemical Screening Center | Beverley Rabbitts | High throughput equipment available to trained users and chemical compound libraries. |
| Macromolecular Structure and Function | Sarvind Tripathi | crystallization and structure determination as wells as biophysical characterization of macromolecular stability and interactions. |
| Mass Spec Facility | Qianglii Zang | LC-MSLTQ and LTQ-Orbitrap Velos Pro MS |
| NMR Facility | Jack Lee | Three instruments for small molecules, proteins, and other biomolecules. |
| X-ray Crystallography Facility | Tim Johnstone | |
| cryoEM | Vitor Hugo Balasco Serrao | Transmission Electron Microscopy: Sample preparation, data collection and analysis |
| EPR | Kevin Singewald | |
| Life Sciences Microscopy Center | Ben Abrams | Microscopes, image processing and analysis software |
| CRISPR Core | Alice Devigne | CRISPR cell line, cloning, lentivirus, CRISPR screen, custom projects involving CRISPR |
| Flow Cytometry Facility | Bari Nazario | a flow cytometer and a FACS sorter |
| Cell Culture | Bari Nazario | Mammalian cell culturing biosafety cabinets, incubators, and other equipment. |
| Nanopore Sequencing | Brandy Baird | DNA sequencing and genomics |
| Banana Slug Genomics Center | Patricia Chan | Next generation sequencing data analysis and custom bioinformatics service |
| WM Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics | Tom Yuzvinsky | Scanning electron microscopy & focused ion beam milling |
| ADDNAP | Beth Shapiro, Sarah Ford | Ancient and Degraded DNA Processing and Sequencing center. Illumina Sequencing, Ancient Sample Processing, Omni-C, Environmental DNA |
| Paleogenomics | Sarah Ford | |
| marine analytical lab | Brian Dreyer | Chemical analysis of environmental samples |
| plasma analytical lab | Brian Dreyer | Inorganic mass spectrometry |
| Organic Geochemistry Lab | Pratigya Polissar | |
| UCSC Cell Browser | Matthew Speir / Maximilian Haeussler | Single Cell Sequencing data analysis, repository, hosting and data visualisation |
| stable isotope lab (SiL) | Colin Carney | |
| Keck Isotope Lab | Terry Blackburn | isotopic analysis of trace metals |
| FE Scanning Electron Microscopy | Myriam Telus | high resolution microscopic imaging and elemental composition of samples (rocks, thin films, fibers, etc). |
| Greenhouse | Sylvie Childress | |
| Hydrogeology, Atmospheric Sciences, Glaciology, Fluvial Geomorphology, Active Tectonics, Rock Preparation, Geochronology, Mineral Physics, Paleomagnetism, Seismology, SCZ Seismographic Station |