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The University of Texas at Austin is hiring a director to oversee the Center for Biomedical Research Support at the University ...

The University of Texas at Austin is hiring an Assistant Vice President for Research of Core Facilities. For full details and ...

Hi Ian, Alison had a very good response. I also oversee a microscopy core. We don't charge any kind of fee for new ...

Hi Ian, I'd be very cautious about charging new users upfront for damage. First, having run the facility here for 25 ...

I'm attaching our rate setting template, AND I have a question: I'm curious if anyone uses an adjustment for lab accidents ...

November 17, 2025 ABRF Members, Sharing the microgrant opportunity below .... ...

We are a training core, so once a user is trained, they are free to use (most) instrumentation at will. Although, as you can ...

Interesting, I did not know about the PPII. Yeah, the Femto is extremely expensive, so I thought that the FA might be a better ...

We use our FA primarily for that (we do ONT, not PacBio), though we aren’t completely happy with how well it works. Our NGS lab ...

Our lab's FA has always been very robust. We have a service contract, but have not needed it for repairs - we replace the capillary ...