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.
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
Dr. Shanker Japa
actgvir@tulane.edu
504-988-4005
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
Prasad V.G. Katakam
pkatakam@tulane.edu
504-988-1426
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-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
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
Biochemical Genetics Core
Cytogenetic Core
Molecular Diagnostic Core
Hans Andersson
handers@tulane.edu
504-988-5229
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
Ryosuke Sato
rsato@tulane.edu
Kailash Pandey
kpandey@tulane.edu
504-988-1628
implant@tulane.edu
Imaging and Detection
Sample Processing & Analysis
Liquid Chromoatography
Centrifugation
Jeffrey G. Tasker, Director
tasker@tulane.edu
504-862-8762
Molecular Biology
Single cell RT-PCR
Carmel Bridgeman, Coordinator
cbridgem@tulane.edu
504-862-8195
Protein Biochemistry
Recombinant Virus Production
The MNCF can generate, expand, and titer three commonly used viruses.