Facilities
Research Facilities & Building Projects
Under a state-funded initiative during the Governor Gray Davis administration, QB3 helped fund building construction at UCSC, including the Engineering 2 Building, and the Physical Sciences Building.
QB3 provides support for numerous UC Santa Cruz research facilities including the Flow Cytometry Facilities, the Life Sciences Microscopy Center, the Chemical Screening Center, the Biomolecular Cryo-Em Facility, the Sequencing Technology Center, the DNA Sequencing Core and the CRISPR Core.
Below we provide a general list of UCSC science core facilities:
| Facility name | Host department | Is this a facility where trained users get access or where customers submit samples? | Type of equipment or services available |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chemical Screening Center (SCR_021114) | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Both | Compound libraries, high throughput and high content equipment (liquid handling, plate reading, and imaging), and bioinformatics software |
| IBSC Shared FACS Facility (SCR_021149) | Baskin School of Engineering | Both | BD FACS LSRII flow cytometry analyzer and BD FACS AriaIIU cell sorter |
| CRISPR Core (SCR_021207) | MCD Biology | Customers submit samples | CRISPR cell line, cloning, lentivirus, CRISPR screen, custom projects involving CRISPR |
| Life Sciences Microscopy Facility (SCR_021135) | Biomolecular Engineering/ MCD Biology | Both | Microscopes, image processing and analysis software |
| Macromolecular Structure Function Core Facility (MSFCF) | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Both | Resources are available for crystallization and structure determination as wells as biophysical characterization of macromolecular stability and interactions |
| NMR Facility | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Both | Structural Elucidation and Structural Analysis |
| Banana Slug Genomics Center (Pending: SCR_021360) | Biomolecular Engineering | Both | Next generation sequencing data analysis and custom bioinformatics service |
| W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics | Electrical & Computer Engineering | Both | Scanning electron microscopy & focused ion beam milling |
| Keck Isotope Lab | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Both | Isotopic analysis of trace metals |
| UCSC Paleogenomics Lab | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Customers submit samples | Ancient and Degraded DNA Processing and Sequencing |
| FESEM | Earth and Planetary Sciences | Both | High resolution microscopic imaging and elemental composition of samples (rocks, thin films, fibers, etc). |
| Marine Analytical Laboratory | Institute of Marine Sciences | Trained Users | Chemical analysis of environmental samples |
| Plasma Analytical Lab | Institute of Marine Sciences | Both | Inorganic mass spectrometry |
| Biomolecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (SCR_021755) | Chemistry and Biochemistry | Both | Transmission Electron Microscopy: Sample preparation, data collection and analysis |
| Ancient and Degraded DNA Processing Center (ADDNAP) | Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | Both | Illumina Sequencing, Ancient Sample Processing, Omni-C, Environmental DNA |
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