The Hastings Foundation and Wright Foundation Laboratories are a university-wide state-of-the-art facility located on the USC Health Sciences Campus. The laboratories serve basic and clinical scientists seeking to study emerging infectious diseases and ongoing public health agents in the fields of molecular biology, pathology, immunology and marine biology. Since the laboratories went live in February
The mission of the USC Proteomics Core is to make the cutting edge mass spectrometry technology available to the entire USC research community. While the core is a fee-for-service facility, it is also a research environment for multi-disciplinary research and education that utilizes mass spectrometry and other proteomics technologies to tackle complex biological and medical
http://uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/Core/MolGen/ The Molecular Genomics Core (MGC) offers high-throughput analyses of genetic, epigenetic and transcriptomic variation. The MGC was created in the summer of 2009 through the merger of the DNA Core, the Microarray Core and the Genomics Core. The MGC is divided into an HSC (Health Science Campus) component and a CHLA (Children’s Hospital, Los
NextGen Sequencing has been offered through the Molecular Genomics Core in the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center for several years, but the service really took off in early 2011 with the hiring of dedicated sequencing staff, a director to oversee NextGen projects and the acquisition of a high-output sequencer from Illumina, the HiSeq 2000. Since
http://uscnorriscancer.usc.edu/Core/Transgenic/ The Transgenic/Knockout Core was established in 1993 to produce transgenic and knockout mice for USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators and to increase the use of mouse technology through education and consultation to the cancer research community. Since its inception, the core has operated under the faculty leadership of Robert Maxson, PhD and manager,
