Core Facilities Tours

Core facility tours at institutions near the meeting location are available to ABRF 2009 meeting attendees:

Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics & Biotechnology
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Saturday, February 7, 2009
4:15-6:00 pm
To sign up for these tours, please go to the St. Jude tour registration site.
 
The Hartwell Center for Bioinformatics & Biotechnology at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital integrates of biotechnology, bioinformatics and computing resources to provide state-of-the-art tools for biomedical discovery.  Core services include genome sequencing (Roche 454 FLX and Illumina GA), DNA sequencing and genotyping (capillary electrophoresis), Macromolecular Synthesis (peptide and oligonucleotide), functional genomics (cDNA microarrays), Clinical Application Core Technology (Affymetrix arrays), Proteomics and Mass Spectrometry (protein identification, peptide modification analysis), Molecular Interaction Analysis (surface plasmon resonance, analytical ultracentrifugation and static light scattering), and Research Informatics (bioinformatics and computing resources).

For more information, please contact Geoffrey Neale at geoffrey.neale@stjude.org.

Molecular Resource Center
University of Tennessee
Tours available by request.

The Molecular Resource Center (MRC) is one of the University of Tennessee's Centers of Excellence.  The MRC has a wide range of molecular, biochemical and immunological resources in its core laboratories at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

For more information, please contact William Taylor at wtaylor@utmem.edu.