Core Facilities
The New Mexico INBRE is supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Center for Research Resources. Six institutions make up the New Mexico INBRE core: New Mexico State University, University of New Mexico, New Mexico Tech, New Mexico Highlands University, Eastern New Mexico University and the National Center for Genome Resources. Each link will take you to a page that shows facilities located at each of the Core institutions.
- New Mexico State University
- University of New Mexico
- New Mexico Tech
- New Mexico Highlands University
- Eastern New Mexico University
Overview
The goal of the New Mexico INBRE consortium is to develop, coordinate and share biomedical resources and expertise among the faculty and students at the participating institutions. By supporting communications among the member institutions, more effective use of their biomedical resources, both human and equipment, will be made. Further, current biomedical research programs require data acquisition, interpretation and analysis in multiple disciplines. By cross-training faculty and students in data analysis in disciplines new to them, as well as by supporting the data representation and modeling in these fields, we will increase the biomedical research activity at institutions in the INBRE consortium.
Core Resources and Activities
The Bioinformatics Core of the NM INBRE has focused on three areas of activity.
- Teleconferencing
- Software Integration
- Hardware Installation
In the area of teleconferencing, we are enhancing the endpoint capabilities of major educational and research institutions around New Mexico and are improving the connectivity among institutions and with nationwide networks. We are deploying 13 Polycom ViewStation FX to 11 participating institutions. This has already increased the ability of researchers to communicate with each other. Additionally, we have been instrumental in obtaining support for statewide participation in the National Lambda Rail , a state-of-the-art national computing network with international peering.
In the area of software integration we have collected and organized a large number of software packages to support biomedical research. This includes a large array of molecular sequence analysis and curation software, and capabilities for molecular structure prediction and analysis. One example is the EMBOSS/Jemboss suite of software, for which we have created a tutorial. Much of the available software is graphical in nature and is most effectively used with a graphical interface. For those who wish to use INBRE computational resources and do not have native network-capable windowing systems, the Virtual Network Computing server and clients are available. In order to make this collection of software more useful, we are in the process of organizing additional documentation.
Finally, in the area of hardware installation, we have built a set of hardware resources that are available to participating INBRE researchers. This includes capability of running all of the research software we have integrated as well as a wide array of additional software.
| NMSU (SFCF) | Equipment |
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Cary 100 Spectrophotometer Cary Eclipse Fluorometer Perkin-Elmer Spectrum ONE FTIR |
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| NMSU (COCF) | Equipment |
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Renovation (17x17 sq. ft.) Double stacked CO2incubation tanks Inverted phase contrast microscope Table top centrifuge Water baths Ultra pure water system Balances (analytical and top loading) pH meter Vibratome Refrigerator Ultracold freezer Chemical flow hood Vacuum pump |
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| UNM | Services |
| Mass Spectrometry Facility | |
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Amersham/Pharmacia High Resolution FPLC Beckman Refrigerated Centrifuge Columbus Instruments Gas Mixer Beckman UV/Vis Spectrophotometer Photometric CoolSnap CCD Camera |
| NMT | Equipment |
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ABI Prism 310 Genetic Analyzer Becton Dickinson Flow Cytometer AccuSterilizer AS12 Autoclave Ultracentrifuge Rotors Coulter Cell Counter TD-700 Fluorometer Electrode for pH Meter Model 550A pH Meter DNA Engine 2000 Thermal Cycler CDS 2000 Pyrolysis Unit ABI Prosm 310 Genetic Analyzer Becton Dickinson Flow Cytometer Pyrolysis Unit Installation Optima L-100 XP Ultracentrifuge Model 203 Oxygen Meter Cornelius Ice Machine Zoom IPG 2-D Protein Gel Unit Injection Port for Pyrolysis Unit |
| NMHU | Equipment |
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BioRobot 3000 New Brunswick 4330 Innova Floor Model Refrigerated Incubator Shaker BioRad biologic LP Protein Purification System and Fraction Collector Eppendorf UV/VIS Biophotometer Eppendorf MiniSpin Microfuge GE General Purpose Refrigerator/Freezer Kenmore general Purpose Microwave Barnstead-Thrmolyne EasyPure UV/UF Water Purification System Labline Variable Angle Rocker Denver INstrumnets APEX Toploading Balance Cimarec Stir Hot Plate VWR Dry Block Heater HP Document Scanner 7 X Gilson Pipettmen 2 X Eppendorf EasyPet Serological Pipettor |
| ENMU | Equipment |
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Centrifuge ThermoSpectronic French Press Fermnetor Olympus BX51 W1 Microscope Sorvall Discovery 100SE Ultracentrifuge Sorvall A-841 Rotor New Brunswick BioFlo110 Fermentor Millipore tangential flow HPUF Filtration Sestem Beckman Coulter LS6500 Scintillation Counter Perkin Elmer Lambda 35 UV/V is Spectrophotometer RevCo -80C Freezer BioRad Bio Logic LP FFLC Bio Rad Model 491 Prepcell Sorvall T-890 Ultraspeed Rotor |
