Facilities

The University of Oregon is home to a range of world-class research core facilities that provide researchers, industry partners, and students with access to the latest instrumentation and services.

A person pulls a tank of fish out of a rack in the aquatic animal care facilities.
AqACS provides support for researchers using aquatic and semi-aquatic animal models, primarily fish, to study vertebrate genomics and vertebrate development. 
A person stands in front of a liquid handling platform in the G C 3 F core facility.
GC3F supports life science research with advanced instrumentation, including DNA sequencing, advanced light microscopy, flow cytometry, sample prep, microscopy, and fragment analysis. 
Two gloved hands gently cradle a mouse.
ACS is responsible for administering all activities related to the care and use of animals. 

 

A person waters plants in a greenhouse.
Comprising more than 6,000 square feet of greenhouse space and a one-acre field, the UO Research Greenhouses support the research and teaching missions of faculty and students in multiple academic departments and institutes at the UO and at other universities nationwide.
A person looks into the lenses of a microscope.
The imaging facility is part of the Genomics and Cell Characterization Core Facility. It supports scientific researchers and provides high resolution, state-of-the-art microscopy technologies for imaging.
A close up view of zebrafish in a tank.
ZIRC provides a central repository for wild-type and mutant strains of zebrafish (Danio rerio) and for materials and information about zebrafish research to labs worldwide. 
A row of servers.
ZFIN, a sister resource to ZIRC, is an online database for zebrafish genetics, genomics, and development. ZFIN incorporates genetic mapping data from the zebrafish genome initiative and provides links to related gene information in species-specific databases. 

 

 

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