Research Facilities & Building Projects

Under a state-funded initiative during the Governor Gray Davis administration, QB3 helped fund building construction at UCSC, including the Engineering 2 Building, and the Physical Sciences Building.

QB3 provides support for numerous UC Santa Cruz research facilities including the IBSC Cell Culture and Flow Cytometry Facilities, the Life Sciences Microscopy Center, the Chemical Screening Center and the CRISPR Core. Below we provide a general list of UCSC science core facilities:

Facility name	Host department	Is this a facility where trained users get access or where customers submit samples?	Type of equipment or services available
Chemical Screening Center (SCR_021114)	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Both	Compound libraries, high throughput and high content equipment (liquid handling, plate reading, and imaging), and bioinformatics software
IBSC Shared FACS Facility (SCR_021149)	Baskin School of Engineering	Both	BD FACS LSRII flow cytometry analyzer and BD FACS AriaIIU cell sorter
CRISPR Core (SCR_021207)	MCD Biology	Customers submit samples	CRISPR cell line, cloning, lentivirus, CRISPR screen, custom projects involving CRISPR
Life Sciences Microscopy Facility (SCR_021135)	Biomolecular Engineering/ MCD Biology	Both	Microscopes, image processing and analysis software
Macromolecular Structure Function Core Facility (MSFCF)	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Both	Resources are available for crystallization and structure determination as wells as biophysical characterization of macromolecular stability and interactions
NMR Facility	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Both	Structural Elucidation and Structural Analysis
Banana Slug Genomics Center (Pending: SCR_021360)	Biomolecular Engineering	Both	Next generation sequencing data analysis and custom bioinformatics service
W.M. Keck Center for Nanoscale Optofluidics	Electrical & Computer Engineering	Both	Scanning electron microscopy & focused ion beam milling
Keck Isotope Lab	Earth and Planetary Sciences	Both	Isotopic analysis of trace metals
UCSC Paleogenomics Lab	Ecology & Evolutionary Biology	Customers submit samples	Ancient and Degraded DNA Processing and Sequencing
FESEM	Earth and Planetary Sciences	Both	High resolution microscopic imaging and elemental composition of samples (rocks, thin films, fibers, etc).
Marine Analytical Laboratory	Institute of Marine Sciences	Trained Users	Chemical analysis of environmental samples
Plasma Analytical Lab	Institute of Marine Sciences	Both	Inorganic mass spectrometry
Biomolecular Cryo-Electron Microscopy Facility (SCR_021755)	Chemistry and Biochemistry	Both	Transmission Electron Microscopy: Sample preparation, data collection and analysis
Ancient and Degraded DNA Processing Center (ADDNAP)	Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	Both	Illumina Sequencing, Ancient Sample Processing, Omni-C, Environmental DNA