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The Waitt Advanced Biophotonics Center Core Facility provides technical and logistical access for Salk Faculty to advanced fluorescence, confocal, live cell, TIRF, super-resolution and electron microscopy imaging methods as well as a collaborative environment to conduct cellular imaging based biological research.
The Razavi Newman Center for Bioinformatics provides bioinformatics and genomics infrastructure, consulting, data analysis, independent research and long-term collaborations in a number of areas including comparative genomics and evolutionary bioinformatics.
Center for Cytometry and Molecular Imaging (CCMI)
Flow cytometry, cell sorting, confocal microscopy, deconvolution microscopy, phosphorimaging, fluorescence imaging and fluorescence quantitation.
Gene expression profiling using standard Affymetrix arrays and custom cDNA or oligo arrays. Quantitative PCR using ABI Prism 7xxx Sequence Detection Systems.
Gene Transfer Targeting and Therapeutics Core (GT3)
The Gene Transfer Targeting and Therapeutics Core Facility, a member of the La Jolla Neurosciences NIH Blueprint Initiative, provides design, consultation and production services for retroviral, lentiviral and adeno-associated viral vector systems.
Synthesis of inexpensive peptides for Salk scientists: providing unmodified, biotinylated, acetylated, or phosphorylated peptides.
The Vincent J. Coates Foundation Mass Spectrometry Center. Protein identification by mass spectrometry.
Stem Cell Core
Supporting the needs of Salk researchers for human ES and reprogrammed iPS cell culture. We offer training and the physical space to carry out experiments using these pluripotent cell types.
Transgenic and knock-out mice production, IVF, embryo cryopreservation and rederivation.