Our Core Facilities
exist to:
- Consolidate expensive
technologies
- Provide access to
state-of-the-art tools for research
- Coordinate shared resources
- Expand the base of sponsored
research by providing a strong research
infrastructure.
There are
currently eight
Core Facilities
at the College
of Medicine,
organized as the
Section of
Research
Resources, and
located in rooms
C1727-C1735,
C3603, C3706,
C3707-C3709,
C7643, at
the Animal
Research Farm
and MRI Building
and the
Hershey
Center for
Applied
Research.
There are
also
numerous
additional
Institutional
Facilities
available to
researchers
at both the
Hershey
and State
College
campuses
(See Other
Institutional
Cores Tab at
left).
Research
Resources' Core
Facilities are
not affiliated
with specific
departments, but
have
a diverse
Faculty Advisory
Committee which
helps staff
members develop
policy and
strategic
direction. Core
Facilities are
accessible to
all
investigators at
the College of
Medicine and
other PSU
campuses at
subsidized fee
levels, as well
as to
researchers
outside the PSU
system at fee
levels
equal to
full costs
of analyses.
All Core
Facilities
are busy,
and staff
will not
always have
time to act
immediately
on walk-in
requests,
questions,
or sample
submissions
that will
require work
by staff.
Please try
to contact
facility
staff by
email to
arrange
appointments
for
consultations
and sample
drop-off. Particularly
prior to
submission
of large
numbers of
samples or
complex
samples,
please let
the
appropriate
staff know
when such
samples are
anticipated
- this
allows us to
analyze your
samples in
the most
efficient
way
possible.
Citations
for
Publications
-
Acknowledgement,
Authorship,
&
Publications
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All
research
tools
and
work
contributed
by
our
Core
Facilities
should
minimally
be
acknowledged
in
any
publications.
Guidelines
for
authorship
have
been
established
by
the
International
Committee
of
Medical
Journal
Editors
and
similar
organizations
(e.g.,
discussed
by
Huth
(Huth,
E.
J.
[1986]
in
Guidelines
on
Authorship
of
Medical
Papers,
Annals
Int.
Med.
104
:
269-274)
and
Bailey
(Bailey,
B.
J.
[2001]
What
Is
an
Author?
Otolaryngol.
Head
Neck
Surg.
124
:2-3
).
These
guidelines
suggest
that
if
staff
scientists
from
any
Core
Facilities
have
helped
to
design
the
experiments,
have
done
data
analysis
and
interpretation
of
data,
or
both,
they
should
be
co-authors
of
papers
that
use
data
generated
by
the
facility,
should
participate
in
reviewing
pertinent
sections
of
the
article,
and
should
give
final
approval
to
the
manuscript
wording
and
conclusions
from
those
sections
before
publication.
If
you
publish
articles
or
receive
grants
using
data
or
tools
generated
in
our
Core
Facilities,
please:
- Acknowledge the Core Facilities' contributions for "standard" services (see individual facilities pages for information on how to cite a specific facility).
- Consider authorship for more significant intellectual and planning contributions,
- Let us know when something is published or a grant is awarded so that we can track publications and grants.
These
actions
are
crucial
for
continued
support
for
the
Core
Facilities
you
depend
on,
support
both
from
external
funding
agencies
(see
below)
and
from
internal
institutional
sources.
This
funding
keeps
your
costs
for
usage
of
Core
Facilities
as
low
as
possible.
In
addition,
we
have
received
generous
support
for
providing
advanced
instrumentation
through
Tobacco
Settlement
Funds
provided
through
the
Pennsylvania
Department
of
Health,
and
the
use
of
analyses
using
any
TSF-supported
instrumentation
or
services
should
also
be
acknowledged
in
any
publications
as
follows:
"Core
Facility
services
and
instruments
used
in
this
project
were
funded,
in
part,
under
a
grant
with
the
Pennsylvania
Department
of
Health
using
Tobacco
Settlement
Funds.
The
Department
specifically
disclaims
responsibility
for
any
analyses,
interpretations
or
conclusions."
Continued
TSF
support
for
advanced
instrumentation
is
also
dependent
in
part
on
specific
demonstration
of
the
many
research
projects
benefitting
from
TSF
support
(i.e.,
acknowledgement
in
publications
as
above).
In
particular,
all
Functional
Genomics
services
(e.g.,
microarrays,
qRT-PCR)
have
been
heavily
supported
by
TSF
funds,
as
have
services
and
instrumentation
purchases
for
proteomics
&
mass
spectrometry,
laser
capture
microdissection,
confocal
microscopy,
MRI,
and
flow
cytometry. |
Funding
for Core
Facilities
Funding
to
create
and run
the Core
Facilities
has been
provided
in part
by the
following:
-
Ben
Franklin
Partnership
-
Institutional
Support
-
Juvenile
Diabetes
Research
Foundation
-
National
Institutes
of
Health
(Shared
Instrumentation
Grants)
-
National
Science
Foundation
-
Penn
State
Cancer
Institute
-
Tobacco
Settlement
Funds
Professional
Memberships
For
suggestions
or
comments
about
the Penn
State
Hershey
Core
Research
Facilities
website,
please
email
Dr.
Bruce A.
Stanley
at
bstanley@psu.edu, or fill in an anonymous Feedback Form.
(Dr. Stanley's Teaching pages can be found by clicking HERE, Research Pages by clicking HERE)
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