Molecular Biology Core Facility

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1. Resource Description

   The Molecular Biology Core Facility at Meharry Medical College is a multi-functional facility that provides to faculty, students, and staff of the college the primary service of DNA sequencing but also provides access to shared equipment housed in a centralized location and facilitates convenient and rapid access to frequently used molecular biological reagents. The Molecular Biology Core houses a number of shared items of research instrumentation. The core also maintains an Invitrogen Supply Center that stocks many routinely used reagents for molecular biological research. The major service activities of the Molecular Biology Core are to provide training and technical assistance with the use of shared equipment housed in the core and provide convenient access to molecular biological reagents. Training in the proper use of equipment is provided by the Laboratory Coordinator and also as needed by vendor technical personnel. The core maintains in-house freezers and supply cabinets stocked with many commonly used molecular biological reagents from Invitrogen. In-house reagents are ordered online from Invitrogen and picked up from stocks housed in the core. Invitrogen items not stocked in the core can be ordered online without shipping charges.

2. Contact

   Sloan-Brown, Karen

3. PI

   Holt, Robert, Ph.D.

4. Provides Service

   Shared equipment training and technical assistance

5. Provides Service

   Access to shared equipment and molecular biological reagents

6. ERO_0000053

   No

7. Affiliation

   Molecular Biology Core Facility

8. Performs Technique

   Instrumentation technical support

9. Performs Technique

   Material processing technique

10. Website(s)

    http://www.mmc.edu/research/core/molecularbio/mission.html

11. Director

    Holt, Robert, Ph.D.