Indiana CTSI Research Service Cores and Resources

The Indiana CTSI Research Service Cores and Resources are your aid to locate instrumentation and services suited to your research. A listing of a Core’s capabilities, contact information, and website address can be found by clicking their ‘Learn More’ button. All of the Designated Service Cores are eligible for CTSI Core Pilot grants and Post-Doc grants
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Notre Dame

Designated Service Core

Biophysics Instrumentation Core (BIC) Facility

The BIC Facility offers sophisticated instrumentation dedicated to characterizing biomolecular conformations and interactions, as well as equipment for the isolation and purification of macromolecules for subsequent detailed biophysical analysis.

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Notre Dame

Non-Designated Service Resource

Center for Research Computing

The CRC houses two complementary resources: the High-Performance Computing section, providing over 35,000 cores of computational power with the associated support infrastructure for both hardware and installed software, and the Cyberinfrastructure section, empowering Faculty and industry partners to develop research software and environments that support advanced data and information processing services including acquisition, storage, management, integration, mining and …

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Notre Dame

Non-Designated Service Resource

Center for Zebrafish Research

3,000 sq. ft. facility consisting of 8 double-sided racks and 38 single-sided racks, maintained independently. Separate room houses the nursery.

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Notre Dame

Designated Service Core

Freimann Life Sciences Center (FLSC)

The Freimann Life Sciences Center is comprised of 2 state-of-the-art animal facilities equipped to house a wide variety of vertebrates. FLSC’s key goals are to support the University of Notre Dame’s teaching and research. The Center is fully accredited by the Association for Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International.

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Notre Dame

Designated Service Core

Genomics and Bioinformatics Core Facility (GBCF)

The Genomics & Bioinformatics Core Facility (GBCF) at the University of Notre Dame provides essential and comprehensive services and support for state-of-the-art genomics experiments and bioinformatics analysis. The GBCF is committed to supporting innovative research by delivering high-quality genomic and bioinformatic solutions; enabling researchers to advance understanding and make impactful discoveries across diverse …

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Notre Dame

Designated Service Core

Integrated Imaging Facility (NDIIF)

The Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility (NDIIF) is a state-of-the-art research core that makes available to the Notre Dame science and engineering community, as well as external customers, an integrated suite of sophisticated microscopes and imaging stations. The NDIIF also provides resident professional staff (three Ph.D.-level imaging specialists and two technicians) to guide the non-expert users. 

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Notre Dame

Designated Service Core

Integrated Imaging Facility – Histology Core (NDHC)

The Notre Dame Histology Core (NDHC) provides a means to examine biological processes in mice, rats, frogs, zebra fish, fruit flies, sheep bone, and even human tissue by use of immunohistochemical techniques and pathology.

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Notre Dame

Non-Designated Service Resource

Keck Center for Transgene Research (resources)

Unique research resources available for collaboration

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Notre Dame

Designated Service Core

Magnetic Resonance Research Center

The Magnetic Resonance Research Center (MRRC) supports research in chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, engineering and related fields. The MRRC operates six solution-state NMR spectrometers (400 to 800 MHz), a solid-state 300 MHz NMR instrument, and an X-band EPR spectrometer. Most instruments are equipped with sample changers for increased sample throughput. See the MRRC website for more information.

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Notre Dame

Designated Service Core

Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics Facility

Analysis of large and small molecules using several ionization methods, low or high resolution, hyphenated techniques, proteomics, and metabolomics.

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Notre Dame

Non-Designated Service Resource

Molecular Structure Facility

The Molecular Structure Facility at the University of Notre Dame provides for X-Ray structural studies of small (ca. 2kDa) molecules. The Facility has the capability to examine a wide range of molecules from “light atom” biologically relevant to metal-complexed compounds which can be readily analyzed using non-destructive techniques.