BIOMOLECULE CHARACTERIZATION AND SEPARATION CORE FACILITY

这个子项目是许多研究子项目中利用 资源由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目和 调查员(PI)可能从NIH的另一个来源获得了主要资金， 并因此可以在其他清晰的条目中表示。列出的机构是 该中心不一定是调查人员的机构。 得克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校(UTEP)继续支持专门从事生物分子分离和表征的多用户研究设施--生物分子分离和表征核心设施(BCSFC)。该核心维护着各种仪器，如质谱仪、纳米HPLC、Biacore(表面等离子共振)、柯达FX活体成像系统、离心机、超离心机、伽马和贝塔闪烁计数器、配有各种检测器的高效液相系统、毛细管电泳仪、UV/VIS光谱仪、微板荧光计和发光计、RT-PCR、热循环仪和其他几种共享仪器。还有许多其他资源可用于记录和分析使用这些仪器收集的实验数据。该核心的目的是为最广泛的用户群体提供使用维护良好的、最先进的生物分子分析设备的机会。该设施自2007年1月起设在新的生物科学大楼的5.208室。该设施每月平均有249名个人用户进入，代表来自UTEP部门(7个)和埃尔帕索休斯顿公共卫生学院(1个)的44个研究小组。BCSCF配备了一名全职协调员(Lani Alcazar，BS)，负责日常维护、安排工厂技术人员和工程师的预防性维护、用户导向和协助，以及账户和库存维护。向核心主任(伊戈尔·阿尔梅达博士)提供了部分薪金，用于持续监督这些活动。

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. The subproject and investigator (PI) may have received primary funding from another NIH source, and thus could be represented in other CRISP entries. The institution listed is for the Center, which is not necessarily the institution for the investigator. The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) continued its support for a multi-user research facility specializing in the separation and characterization of biomolecules, the Biomolecule Separation and Characterization Core Facility (BCSFC). This Core maintains instruments, such as mass spectrometers, nanoHPLCs, BIACORE (surface plasmon resonance), KODAK FX in vivo imaging system, centrifuges, ultracentrifuges, gamma and beta scintillation counters, HPLC system equipped with various detectors, capillary electrophoresis, UV/Vis spectrophotometers, microplate fluorometer and luminometer, RT-PCR, thermalcyclers, and several other shared instruments. Numerous other resources are available for documentation and analysis of experimental data collected using these instruments. The purpose of this Core is to provide the broadest possible group of users with access to well-maintained, state-of-the-art, equipment for biomolecule analysis. The facility is housed at room 5.208 of the new Biosciences building since January 2007. The facility was entered in average 1,000 times per month, by 249 individual users, representing 44 research groups from UTEP departments (7) and from the School of Public Health Houston at El Paso (1). The BCSCF is staffed by a full-time coordinator (Lani Alcazar, BS), who has been responsible for routine maintenance, scheduling preventive maintenance by factory technicians and engineers, user orientation and assistance, as well as account and inventory maintenance. Partial salary was provided to the core director (Igor Almeida, PhD) for ongoing oversight of these activities.