CRCF Student Tours Roger Williams University’s Biotechnology Student Visit On October 21st, students from Dr. Avelina Espinosa’s Biotechnology class and Lab (BIO340+L) at Roger Williams University (RWU) visited the CRCF to learn about DNA sequencing, as discussed by Janet Atoyan, while Dr. Ang Cai concentrated on the tools for protein purification and analysis. In the laboratory-intensive […]
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ACS Industries
Industry Affiliate ACS Industries One of the current foci of ACS Industries Inc. is manufacturing components for water electrolysis and steam methane reformation systems. The global company, established in 1939, is headquartered in Lincoln, Rhode Island, and is in its fourth generation of family leadership with actively involved owners. Dr. Timothy Davenport is the Senior […]
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CRCF Demonstration LI-COR Biosciences – Odyssey M Imaging System Visit RI-INBRE’s Centralized Research Core Facility (CRCF) on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 11th and 12th, from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm for a live demonstration of the Odyssey M Multimodal Imager. RI-INBRE’s CRCF location Avedisian Hall/College of Pharmacy, Room 405 The University of Rhode Island 7 […]
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CRCF Instrumentation in Action! The collaboration between George and Anne Ryan Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Rhode Island (URI) and the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University aimed to investigate neuroplasticity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), utilizing sophisticated instrumentation at the CRCF, and resulted in the publication “Inhibitory interneurons show early dysfunction in […]
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Industry User: MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc. MindImmune Therapeutics, Inc. a small pharmaceutical company with an impact that is emerging daily, is based in Kingston, at the University of Rhode Island. The company is developing first-in-class therapeutic drugs targeting the immune system to treat diseases of the central nervous system, including Alzheimer’s disease. The company recently announced […]
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CCRI’s Biotechnology and Chemical Technology Programs The training collaboration between the Community College of Rhode Island (CCRI) and the Centralized Research Core Facility (CRCF) regularly hosts student groups from Professor Scott Warila’s Biotechnology class and Professor Wayne Suits‘s Chemical Technology Program. Students tour the facility and learn to use the high-performance equipment. Professor Scott Warila […]
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Centralized Research Core Facility (CRCF) – Instrumentation Updates – Demonstrations, Seminars and Workshops CRCF Instrumentation Update – Summer 2023 Two state-of-the-art Liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) instruments, the Agilent 6470B Triple Quadrupole and Thermo Orbitrap Exploris 240, were installed in the Spring, with a combined cost of one million dollars, bringing significant advancements to the CRCF‘s […]
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The Centralized Research Core Facility (CRCF) can get congested as students, post-docs, and faculty use instruments in close quarters. In the time of COVID-19, it was not possible to allow that the same level of congestion, so we changed the arrangement of the CRCF. To spread things out, we moved the benches against the outside […]
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