Life Sciences


UMASS AMHERST CORE FACILITIES

We work together with researchers toward a singular goal: advancing applied science and technology to address the world’s most pressing challenges. The UMass Amherst Core Facilities offer expertise and resources that create new opportunities, not only for scientific achievement, but also for establishing new models of collaboration.

Animal Imaging
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Animal Imaging

This facility conducts research using equipment capable of fluorescence and luminescence imaging independent of or concurrent with CT imaging.

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Animal Models
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Human Health 
  • Life Sciences 

Animal Models

Provides transgenic, gene targeting, and other services to the research community

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  • Life Sciences 
  • Manufacturing / Engineering / Materials 

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM)

Provide analytical and high resolution scanning probed based microscopy, including Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) related techniques as well as force measurements.

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  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Cell Culture

Two cell culture facilities for both biological and bio-engineering approaches. Biosafety cabinets, incubators and general wet lab supplies.

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Pillars for Energy! Nanostructured Carbon Pillars: This 3-Dimensional nanostructured hierarchical network in carbon is the ultimate route to efficient energy storage! Imaged at the cross-sectional site of a nano-patterned film using Scanning Electron Microscope. What you see are the focussed and out-of-focus pillars at a micron scale, which creates an amazing electronic graph! Sravya Nuguri Polymer Science and Engineering Department, College of Natural Sciences IALS-UMass Core Facilities
  • Life Sciences 
  • Manufacturing / Engineering / Materials 

Electron Microscopy

Transmission (TEM) and Scanning (SEM) Electron Microscopes as well as related sample preparation equipment..

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Flow Cytometry
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Flow Cytometry

Enables researchers to image structures ranging from single molecules to whole model organisms and performs microscope-based high-throughput screens.

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Genomics Resource Laboratory
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Genomics Resource Laboratory

Provides solutions for Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) and advances instrumentation for DNA, RNA analysis. Facility is equipped with instruments including Illumina NextSeq 500 and MiSeq.

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Histology–Tissue Resources
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Histology–Tissue Resources

Histological services such as processing and paraffin embedding tissues, sectioning fixed or frozen tissues and immunohistochemical analysis. HistoSpring Tissue Registry provides access to tissue/cells from human breast and ovarian patients.

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IALS Clinical Testing Center
  • Human Health 
  • Life Sciences 

IALS Clinical Testing Center

Utilizing the ‘gold standard’ SARS-C0V-2 assay – involving RNA extraction/qPCR, to ensure the lowest possible false positive/false negative results.

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Light Microscopy
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Light Microscopy Facility

Nine different Nikon microscopes available that enable a full range of light microscopy methods and applications. Expert support offered for acquisition and analysis of data.

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NMR
  • Human Health 
  • Life Sciences 

NMR

Elucidates structure, conformation, dynamics and interactions between the molecules

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Nutriceutical Formulation
  • Human Health 
  • Life Sciences 

Nutriceutical Formulation

Isolates and concentrates bioactives, thermally treats them by ultrahigh pasteurization and agitating retort, produces emulsion systems by homogenization, and encapsulates by freeze or spray drying.

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Sleep Monitoring Lab
  • Human Health 
  • Life Sciences 

Sleep Monitoring Lab

Equipped with EEG systems for recording sleep physiology (sleep staging). A central control room will allow for on-line observation and monitoring of sleep in populations from infants to the elderly.

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Small Molecule Screening
  • Cellular / Molecular / Animal Sciences 
  • Life Sciences 

Small Molecule Screening

The Small Molecule Screening Facility assists researchers in developing high-throughput (HT) screening assays, performs HT screens of chemical libraries to identify new small molecules that can be used to probe biological processes of interest.

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