Resources

Important Documents and Links

Accidental Exposure Documents (PDFs)

• Cryptococcus neoformans
• Entamoeba histolytica
• Naegleria fowleri
• Toxoplasma gondii
• Trypanosoma brucei

Important Links (PDFs)

• Institutional Biosafety Committee
• Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee
• NIH Guidelines for Research Involving Recombinant or Synthetic Nucleic Acid Molecules
• CDC Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories (BMBL)
• Pathogen Safety Data Sheets and Risk Assessment (Public Health Agency of Canada)

How to Cite the COBRE

PLEASE NOTE: COBRE-supported infrastructure cannot be used for research that will result in co-authored publication with foreign experts, per the NIH Grants Policy Statement (NIHGPS, Revised March 2026)

The language for acknowledging the COBRE should be:

The authors acknowledge the support of a National Institute of General Medical Sciences Grant: P20GM146584.

or:

This work was funded by X, X and a National Institute of General Medical Sciences Grant (P20GM146584).

For equipment users:

Instrumentation in the EPIC µcore was provided by a US National Institutes of Health Center for Biomedical Excellence (COBRE) grant under award number P20GM146584.

EPIC μcore Equipment Calendars

To request access to an equipment calendar, please send an email to Nicki Clark-Mount. Requesting access via the calendar link will not work.

• Agilent BioTek Cytation C10 plate reader
• Avanti High Speed Centrifuge J-265 XPI 1
• Avanti High Speed Centrifuge J-265 XPI
• Axygen Thermocycler-EPIC 1
• Axygen Thermocycler-EPIC 2
• Axygen Thermocycler-EPIC 3
• Axygen Thermocycler-EPIC 4
• Eon Plate Reader
• Log Phase Reader
• QuantStudio 3 qPCR
• Synergy H1 Plate Reader
• Synergy HTX Plate Reader
• Tabletop Ultracentrifuge
• Ultracentrifuge (floor model) rotor: SW40Ti
• Ultracentrifuge (tabletop model) rotor: MLS-50

To request training and access to the Cytoflex calendars, please send an email to Caroline Palmentiero.

• Cytoflex
• Cytoflex S

To request training and access to the Leica microscope calendar, please send an email to Jillian Milanes.
Leica microscope