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Fall 2024 Newsletter Instrument Updates
CRCF Instrument Updates The CRCF acquired two new instruments: a Thermo U3000 HPLC and a Leica Ivesta Steroeoscope. Thermo U3000 HPLC Our Shimadzu Nexera-I, the only HPLC at CRCF, experienced a malfunction that required substantial funds for repair. In response, Dr. Bongsup Cho has generously transferred his HPLC to CRCF, making it available for […]
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Instrumentation in Action Publication Highlights Tess Puopole, a Ph.D. student from Dr. Navindra Seeram’s lab in the Department of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences, recently published a paper on investigating cannabinoids as P2X purinoreceptor 4 (P2X4) ligands using Biacore T200 surface plasmon resonance (SPR) at CRCF. The Biacore T200 is a state-of-the-art SPR instrument that utilizes label-free […]
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CRCF Demonstrations, Seminars, and Workshops Leica Mateo microscope and stereoscope demonstration (March 2024) In March 2024, a Leica Mateo TL inverted light microscope and a Ivesta stereoscope for cell culture were demonstrated. Over five researchers from URI’s Biology, Pharmacy, Physics, and Engineering departments participated in imaging and analyzing their samples. The demo was also featured […]
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Demonstrations, Seminars, and Workshops The Centralized Research Core Facility (CRCF) hosted a Leica Microsystems workshop featuring THUNDER imaging and Aivia artificial intelligence (AI) analysis. Leica THUNDER, an imaging technology, is designed to improve the optical resolution of microscopy images. THUNDER uses computational methods to reconstruct high-resolution images from the acquired data, providing clearer and more […]
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Integrating Cutting-Edge Technology: CRCF’s Event Empowers Biotechnology Students On April 22, 2023, the CRCF organized a groundbreaking event that combined an instrument demonstration with the activities of the Biotechnology class curriculum. The success of this initiative opened new avenues for integrating cutting-edge technology into the educational experience of undergraduate students. The event featured William Rice, […]
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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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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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