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Core Facilities

Tulane University has research core facilities that are available to research groups/investigators. As noted in the list below, these cores are usually under administrative control of a research center. Detailed information about the core can be found in the synopsis and/or on the core website. Contact information for the director and other contact for the core is listed below.

Coordinated Instrumentation Facility

George Flowers, Ph.D
flowers@tulane.edu
504-865-5198
Synopsis


 

Tulane Center for Aging - Genomics and Biostatistics Core

Dr. Mimi Sammarco
msammarc@tulane.edu
504-988-3090 / 504-988-4087


 

Clinical & Translational Core Facility

Dr. Shanker Japa
actgvir@tulane.edu
504-988-4005


Transgenic Core Facility

Ann Mullin
amullin@tulane.edu
504-865-6742


Tulane Hypertension & Renal Center of Excellence

Molecular Imaging and Analytical Core - THRCE & COBRE

Minolfa C. Prieto, M.D.
mprieto@tulane.edu
504-988-2675

Mouse Phenotyping Core Facility

Dewan S.A. Majid, M.D.
majid@tulane.edu
504-988-2600


Tulane Diabetes Research Core

Seahorse - Cellular Bioenergetics Core - Med and Pharm

Prasad V.G. Katakam
pkatakam@tulane.edu
504-988-1426


 

Louisiana Cancer Research Consortium/Tulane Cancer Center Cores
Cancer Genetics Program – COBRE Core

Erik Flemington
eflemin@tulane.edu
504-988-1167

 

Cancer Crusaders Next Generation Sequence Analysis Core
Erik Flemington
eflemin@tulane.edu
504-988-1167

Cell Analysis Core Facility
Prescott Deininger
pdeinin@tulane.edu
504-988-6385

Mary Price
mprice1@tulane.edu
504-988-3422

Tulane Cancer Center Office of Clinical Research
Natalya Semiletova
nsemiletova@tulane.edu
504-988-6121

Biospecimen Core
Krzysztof Moroz
kmoroz@tulane.edu
504-988-6199


ACL/BSL-3 Core Facility

ACL-3 questions:

Dawn Wesson, PhD
504-988-2643
wesson@tulane.edu

Brendan Carter, MSPH
504-988-6368
Bcarter5@tulane.edu

BSL-3/ABSL-3 questions:

Angela Birnbaum, MPH, RBP, CBSP, SM-NRCM, CHMM, PMP
504-988-0300
birnbaum@tulane.edu


 

Tulane Center for Gene Therapy Cores

Real-Time PCR Core
Christine McBride
robinson@tulane.edu
504-988-7071

Affymetrix Microarray Core
Justin Manges
jmanges@tulane.edu
504-988-7063

DNA Diagnostics Core
Charlene Crain
ccrain@tulane.edu         
504-988-7706

DNA Sequencing Core
Justin Manges
jmanges@tulane.edu
504-988-7063

Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Core
Alan Tucker
atucker@tulane.edu
504-988-7741

Histology Core
Dina Gaupp or Claire Llamas  
dgaupp@tulane.edu
504-988-1194

Tissue Culture Core Facility
Margie McCants
mmccants@tulane.edu
504-988-7714

Microscopy Core Facility
Michael Raeder
mraeder@tulane.edu
504-458-1364


 

Hayward Genetics Center Cores

Biochemical Genetics Core
Cytogenetic Core
Molecular Diagnostic Core

Hans Andersson
handers@tulane.edu
504-988-5229


 

Tulane National Primate Research Center Cores

Anatomic Pathology Core
Pete Didier, DVM, PhD
pjdidier@tulane.edu
985-871-6289

Clinical Pathology Core
Pete Didier, DVM, PhD
pjdidier@tulane.edu
985-871-6289

Confocal Microscopy and Molecular Pathology Core
Robert Blair, DVM, PhD, DACLAM
rblair3@tulane.edu
985-871-6635

Flow Cytometry Core
Amitinder Kaur, MD, MBBS
akaur@tulane.edu
985-871-6606

Genetics and Genome Banking Core
Michael Kubisch, PhD
mkubisch@tulane.edu
985-871-6369

Immunology Assay Core
Amitinder Kaur, MD, MBBS
akaur@tulane.edu
985-871-6606

Infectious Disease Aerobiology Core
Chad Roy
croy@tulane.edu
985-871-6417

Pathogen Detection and Quantification Core
Carolina Allers, PhD
callersh@tulane.edu
985-871-6488

High Containment Research Performance Core
Jay Rappaport, PhD
jrappaport@tulane.edu
985-871-6201

Vector-Borne Infectious Disease and Diagnostic Parasitology
Monica Embers, PhD
members@tulane.edu
985-871-6607

Virus Characterization, Isolation, Production, and Sequencing Core
Nicholas Maness, PhD
nmaness@tulane.edu
985-871-6595

 


 

Animal and Gene Targeted Core Facility

Ryosuke Sato
rsato@tulane.edu

Kailash Pandey
kpandey@tulane.edu
504-988-1628


 

Shared Instrumentation Facility- Tulane University School of Medicine - Department of Biochemistry

implant@tulane.edu
Imaging and Detection
Sample Processing & Analysis
Liquid Chromoatography
Centrifugation


 

Molecular Neuroscience Core Facility (A joint project of Tulane University and Louisiana State University)

Jeffrey G. Tasker, Director
tasker@tulane.edu
504-862-8762

Molecular Biology

Single cell RT-PCR

  • RT-PCR (genotyping)
  • Realtime PCR (relative or absolute quantitation)
  • Northern Blotting
  • in situ Hybridization

Carmel Bridgeman, Coordinator
cbridgem@tulane.edu
504-862-8195

Protein Biochemistry

  • Western Blotting
  • Cryo-sectioning
  • Cell Culture
  • Enzymatic activity assays
  • ELISA

Recombinant Virus Production
The MNCF can generate, expand, and titer three commonly used viruses.

  • Lentivirus
  • Adeno-associated virus
  • Pseudorabies virus