Animal Resources Center
The Animal Resource Center is staffed with specialized personnel in animal care and handling to support research and education activities. The center houses small and large animals in its 7,700 squares feet facility and provides information concerning purchasing, basic husbandry, quarantine, and veterinary medical care of laboratory animals.
The center also provides technical assistance and advice dealing with animal species used for investigation and supports the research programs by making readily available animals, materials and animal husbandry supplies.
The center is equipped with specialized areas to provide the following services: necropsy, stock and treatment, quarantine, bedding, cage washing and storage. The facilities also include an experimental surgery area with surgical, scrub, sterilizing, and recovery rooms.
Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
Forms to use the facility
Solicitud Propositos Cientificos.pdf
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Zilka Rios, M.S.
Behavioral Testing Facility
The Behavioral Testing Facility was created to facilitate the development of neuroscience research at the Universidad Central del Caribe recognizing the importance of behavioral testing. The facility has two mayor components: A) the equipment infrastructure and B) the technical support division. The facility offers equipment for remote behavior visualization (RBV).
Contact Information
Legier Rojas, Ph.D.
Biomedical Proteomic Facility
The mission of the facility is to accelerate discovery by giving UCC investigators access to cutting edge technologies in proteomics and in mass spectrometry. The facility stimulates the use of 2D gels and protein analysis, via the software PD-Quest, by the faculty. The aim is to provide separation and mass spectrometry techniques for the quantitative analysis of the proteome. One major objective is to identify disease and other relevant biological markers.
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Nawal Boukli, Ph.D.
Common Instrumentation and Technical Support Unit
Is a core area housing major equipment such as ultracentrifuges, freezers, spectrophotometers, gamma counters, etc, as well as the centralized cell culture facility. The unit fosters equipment sharing, centralizes maintenance of equipment and provides repair for the equipment of all the projects.
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Misty Eaton, Ph.D.
HIV and Substance of Abuse Laboratory
The laboratory supports research in the areas of HIV/AIDS and substances of abuse. Specialized facilities are made available to researchers for scientific studies in fields of immunology, drugs of abuse, HIV/AIDS and related infectious diseases. The core lab provides researchers with assays for nucleic acids detection, virus genotyping, flow cytometric phenotyping, lymphocyte proliferation, cytotoxic and non-cytotoxic activity, cytokine and chemokine determinations, and drugs of abuse quantification.
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Eddy Ríos Olivares, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Immunocytochemistry Laboratory
The immunocytochemistry laboratory specializes in the qualitative identification and localization of cells bearing selective markers by employing specific antibodies to these molecules.
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Serguei Skatchkov, Ph.D.
Integrated Research Information Support System (IRISS)
IRISS provides a computer communications network environment, with related technology and resources, to support the acquisition and management of information by the faculty involved in research. The system provides faculty with connection and access to worldwide information resources to facilitate the expansion, strengthening, exchange, and dissemination of their biomedical research work and findings.
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Joel Nieves
Neuronal Glia Culture Facility
The goal of the facility is to assist UCC investigators in the use of cultured neurons, glias
and organotypic cultures. The cultures are used for patch clamping after in vitro treatments
with drugs of addiction or inhibitors and for in vitro models of neurodegenerative diseases.
The core facility consists of a coordinator and a technician. Neuronal cultures are
prepared from fetal cortex, hippocampus or astrocytes from cerebral cortex.
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Pedro Ferchmin, Ph.D.
Optical Imaging Facility
The facility offers microscope-based systems that allow the assessment of cellular
responses, such as calcium signaling with fast temporal resolution. The facility
offers 1) Confocal imaging services; 2) Brightfield, darkfield, phase contrast, Nomarski
and epi-fluorescence imaging; 3) High spatial and temporal resolution imaging,
4) Collection of serial sections (Deconvolution capabilities) and 5) Morphometric analysis.
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Priscila Sanabria, Ph.D.
Protein and Nucleic Acid Core Facility
The Protein and Nucleic Acid Core Facility (PNACF) aids in the transition from
classical to molecular analysis of the problems being addressed by faculty members.
PNACF focuses on faculty training, seminars, training on specialized molecular
biology techniques, protein expression and protein purification and characterization.
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