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Core Facilities & Services

There are many core facilities and services on campus, within and external to the Office of Research, at which researchers can access instruments and services to aid in their efforts.

If you would like add a facility or service to this list, please email Kassie Obelleiro (kobelleiro@ucdavis.edu). Thank you for supporting research at UC Davis.

Office of Research Core Facilities & Services

Air Quality Research Center

    • Monitoring stations/facilities include the following.
      • UC Center, Fresno
      • University of California WestSide Research and Extension Center
      • Global Atmosphere Watch at Cahto Peak
      • Global Atmosphere Watch at Bodega Marine Laboratory
      • Chews Ridge Atmospheric Monitoring Station

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Bodega Marine Laboratory

    • The Bodega Marine Laboratory is specialized facility equipped with the following.
      • Instrument and sensor network
      • Cadet Hand Library
      • Teaching classrooms and lecture hall
      • Dorms
      • Wet labs
      • Greenhouses
      • Vessel fleet
      • Dive training facility
      • High flow seawater system

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California National Primate Research Center

    • Analytical and Resources Core
    • Behavior Assessment Core
    • Computation Imaging Core
    • Inhalation Exposure Core
    • Other services

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Cancer Center

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Campus Mass Spectrometry Facilities

    • Instruments include the following.
      • Thermo Electron LTQ-Orbitrap Hybrid MS
      • Applied Biosystems 4700 MALDI TOF/TOF
      • Thermo Electron LCQ Classic
      • Waters XEVO G2 qTOF (coming soon!)
    • Services include the following.
      • Electrospray Ionization Services
      • Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization (MALDI) Services

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Center for Biophotonics Science and Technology

    • High Resolution Imaging
      • Veeco/Digital Instruments Bioscope II atomic force microscopy system that can be combined with all optical microscope at CBST; supported by an Olympus IX71 miscroscope frame
      • Deconvolution fluorescence microscope equipped for DAPI/FITC/Rhodamine/Alexa647 fluorescence imaging
      • Structure illumination fluurescence microscope (OMX v2.0, Applied Precision, LLC, Issaquah, WA)
    • Nonlinear Optics
      • Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) microscopy system which can operate in either point0scan and/or spectroscopy mode
    • Fluorescence and Microscopy
      • Widefield/total internal reflection fluorescence (TIRF) microscopy system consisting of an iMic live cell fluorescence microscope (TILL Photonics, Munich, Germany), which is fully computer controlled by a JAVA-based application software to perform complex acquisition protocols
      • Real-tme, live-cell confocal fluorescence microscope consisting of an Olympus IX71 microscope frame with a CSU10 spinning disk unit spinning at 1800 rpm (Yokogawa, Japan), to which a motorized filter wheel (Ludl Electronics) and an iXon electron-multiplying back-illuminated CCD camera (Andor Technology, Inc, Ireland) are attached
      • Confocal fluorescence lifetime (FLIM) microscope

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Controlled Environment Facility

    • Instruments include the following.
      • E7
      • PGR15
      • TC30
      • PGV36
      • Dew Chamber
      • BDR8
      • TCR120
      • GR48 and GR48 modified for Arabidopsis
      • TC16
      • Drying Area
      • Dark Room
      • Seed Storage Chamber
      • Vernalization Chambers

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Crocker Nuclear Laboratory

    • Proton and alpha particle beams up to 70 MeV for radiation effects, chemical analysis and cancer therapy
    • Machine and electrical shop facilities

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Interdisciplinary Center for Plasma Mass Spectrometry

    • Instruments include the following.
      • Inductively coupled plasma (quadrupole) mass spectrometry (ICP-MS)
      • Multiple-Collection ICP-MS
    • The following services are available.
      • Quadrupole ICP-MS (solution)
      • Quadrupole ICP-MS (laser ablation)
      • Multiple Collection ICP-MS (solution)
      • Multiple Collection ICP-MS (laser ablation)
      • Sr isotopes (water, carbonates) analysis
      • Bulk Rock Trace Element Analysis

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McClellan Nuclear Research Center

    • Instruments include the following.
      • 2 MW TRIGA reactor
      • Imaging system comprising of 4 neutron beam tubes tangential to reactor core
      • Film neutron radiography system comprised of gadolinium vapor deposited screen, film cassette (vacuum container), and film (fine grain emulsion)
      • Neutron tomography system comprised of 1024x1024 pixel CCD (charge coupled device) camera
      • bays for neutron imaging activities
    • The following services are available.
      • Neutron radiography imaging
      • Neutron tomography imaging
      • Neutron irradiation
        • Radiation Hardness Testing
        • Neutron Activation Analysis
        • Isotope Production

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Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Facility

    • The following spectrometers are available.
      • Avance 800 (liquids spectroscopy)
      • Avance 600 (liquids spectroscopy)
      • Avance 500 (solids spectroscopy)
      • Avance 500 (liquids spectroscopy)
      • Avance 400 (in vitro spectroscopy)
      • Biospec 7T (in vivo spectroscopy, imaging)
    • The folloing services are available.
      • Spectrometers ran by facility staff
      • Operator training course
      • Consultation with staff

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Campus Core Facilities & Services

Animal Resources and Laboratory Services

 

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Center for Laboratory Animal Science

 

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Center for Mind and Brain

Core research areas include:
  • Attention and visual cognition
  • Audio-visual integration
  • Music
  • Language and neurolinguistics
  • Cognitive and neurocognitive development
  • Disorders of the mind and brain
  • Short-term and long-term memory
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Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging

Animal imaging and specimen imaging services including:
    • optical imaging (bioluminescence, fluorescence)
    • positron emission tomography (PET)
    • single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
    • microCT
    • magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
    • biomedical isotope production
    • radiotracer synthesis

 

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Center for Visual Sciences Core Facilities

    • Multi-neuron Recording Module
    • Microscopy Anatomy Module
    • Instrumentation Module
    • Retinal Cell Culture Module

 

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Genome Center

 

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Host Microbe Systems Biology Core

The  provides researchers with access to cutting edge technology for examining gene expression profiling. Services include:
    • Sample Labeling
    • Microarray Hybridization/Scanning
    • Sample Quality Control
    • Data Analysis
    • Assistance with Experimental Design

 

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Paleomagnetism Laboratory

 

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UC Davis Mouse Biology Program

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