October 2024 Newsletter

The NIH Lab Managers Working Group have developed a new NIH-wide database of cold storage units for use in case of unexpected failures. The database includes 4°C, -20°C, -80°C, and LN₂ storage units belonging to NIH researchers. The database and the user guidelines for Emergency cold storage are now available via CREx.

NIH IRP Cores for Protein and Proteomics

CREx catalogues over 250 Core labs and Facilities, including Cores that provide Protein and Proteomic services like peptide synthesis, protein sequencing, protein purification, and other related services.

NHLBI Core Highlight Series: Murine Phenotyping Core

Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM

The NHLBI Office of the Scientific Director is hosting a Core Highlight Series to showcase each of the NHLBI Core Facilities. The focus of this meeting is the Murine Phenotyping Core. Dr. Danielle Springer is the Director of the NHLBI Murine Phenotyping Core, which carries out physiologic and behavioral testing in a diversity of mouse models for NHLBI and other NIH Institutes.

BTEP: Fundamentals of Mass Spectrometry Based Proteomics and Applications for Quantitation

Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 2:00 PM – 4:15 PM

The NCI Bioinformatics Training and Education Program (BTEP) is hosting a workshop on how quantitation is performed in mass spectrometry-based experiments. The workshop will have two speakers. Ronald Holewinski, PhD is a proteomics expert with the CCR Protein Characterization Laboratory. Lisa Jenkins, PhD is a Senior Associate Scientist and Head of the CCR Mass Spectrometry Resource.

NIH LMWG Informational Talks: Division of Veterinary Resources (DVR) Central Services for the NIH Intramural Research Program

Thursday, October 10, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

The NIH Laboratory Managers Working Group is hosting an information talk. Dr. Ascher, Director of the Division of Veterinary Resources (DVR), at the Office of Research Services (ORS) will provide a talk on the DVR Central services for the NIH Intramural Research Program.

Biowulf 25th Anniversary Seminar Series

Thursday, October 17, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM

The High-Performance Computing group is celebrating 25 years of providing scientific supercomputing services to NIH intramural researchers. Dr. Antani at NLM will present a talk titled “Explorations in use of Synthetic Images for Biomedical ML/AI Research”.

MISSED IT? NIH Intramural Core Spotlight Seminar: NHGRI Zebrafish Core

Watch the most recent seminar from the NIH Intramural Spotlight Seminar Series featuring NHGRI’s Zebrafish Core.

Scanning Electron Microscopy

Article in the Current Protocols by scientists from the NIAID Electron Microscopy Core, Research Technologies Branch