Core Facilities

The FAST Labs in Jupiter has core facilities, common equipment and shared equipment at the FAU campus as well reciprocity agreements with our world class partner institutions, the Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience and the Scripps Research Institute. FAU students and faculty can access state of the art research equipment with equal priority and on a cost basis.

FAU's Advanced Cell Imaging Core Facility provides imaging services and light microscopy equipment to support scientific and clinical investigators at FAU and other institutions. Across the Boca and Jupiter campuses, the core houses five imaging systems, covering a variety of light microscopy techniques. Additionally, the core provides five powerful image data analysis workstations with advanced imaging software.

FAU's Neurobehavior Core Facility provides facilities and resources to perform an array of mourse behaviors including consultation to guide researchers in understanding phenotypes and selecting behaviors relevant to their animal models, access to space and equipment to carry out tests, expertise in use of software and data analysis, and serve as a venue for training students in all of the above, to contribute to a well-rounded, research-intensive education to future scientists. The Neurobehavior Core also provides services for in vivo microdialysis and high-performance liquid chromatography sample analysis. 

FAU's Center for Molecular Biology and Biotechnology (CMBB) Core Facility makes its Instrument facilities and core laboratory available to both academic and private-sector users.

Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience Core Facilities provides in-house access to top of the line technology and expertise in the Imaging Center, Mechanical Workshop, Molecular Biology, and Animal Resource Center.

The Scripps Research Institute Florida Campus Research Services offers core facilities in bioinformatics, animal models, computational biology, flow cytometry, genomics, sequencing, high-throughput molecular screening, histology, mass spectrometry and proteomics, metabolics, nuclear magnetic resonance and x-ray crystallography.