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Event Series CFAC Meeting

CFAC Meeting

This is the monthly meeting of the Core Facilities Advocacy Committee. If you have a question, topic, or specific issue to bring to CFAC's attention prior to this meeting please contact your CFAC representative or ORT (corefacilities@med.unc.edu) by the Monday prior to the meeting date!

Event Series CFAC Meeting

CFAC Meeting

This is the monthly meeting of the Core Facilities Advocacy Committee. If you have a question, topic, or specific issue to bring to CFAC's attention prior to this meeting please contact your CFAC representative or ORT (corefacilities@med.unc.edu) by the Monday prior to the meeting date!

Cost-Share and Matching Fund Request Submission Deadline

If you are asking CFAC for cost-sharing towards an instrument purchase or matching fund requests for grant submissions, you MUST submit your request using our online form: https://www.med.unc.edu/corefacilities/cfac-cost-sharing-and-matching-fund-request-submission-form/   Funding decisions and awards will be discussed and finalized at the CFAC meeting following each submission deadline.   For assistance or advice in filling out this … Read more

ORT Core Facility Workshop- External F&A

Jackie Schwamberger, who presented in our June Core Director's meeting, is back to talk about F&A! Alongside her will be Ben Wright, from OSP and together they are here to work with core staff or business managers/departmental accountants on developing tracking mechanisms for F&A, discussing what are allowable vs non-allowable expenses, and demonwhat documentation is … Read more

Event Series CFAC Meeting

CFAC Meeting

This is the monthly meeting of the Core Facilities Advocacy Committee. If you have a question, topic, or specific issue to bring to CFAC's attention prior to this meeting please contact your CFAC representative or ORT (corefacilities@med.unc.edu) by the Monday prior to the meeting date!

ORT Core Facility Workshop- Quality Audits of Cores: Awareness and Preparedness

Genetic Medicine Building (GMB), Room 5007

Core labs that work with biotech/pharma companies or federal agencies may be subject to mandatory quality audits, based on company policy and GLP standards.  In this workshop, we will discuss what a quality audit entails, how to prepare standard operating procedures (SOPs), and the resources available to ensure a successful audit. Dr. Chris Gregory, Director of ORT, will present … Read more

ABRF Town Hall: Instilling a Culture of Collaboration and Mindfulness Around Core Instrumentation (with UNC’s Michelle Itano!)

Many shared resource facilities support instrumentation that is provided to end instrument operators in either a semi- or completely unsupervised manner. To effectively manage these resources, it’s important to build operational structures that instill trust between core members and instrument operators. Core directors and staff need to be able to tune messaging and training to … Read more

Event Series CFAC Meeting

CFAC Meeting

This is the monthly meeting of the Core Facilities Advocacy Committee. If you have a question, topic, or specific issue to bring to CFAC's attention prior to this meeting please contact your CFAC representative or ORT (corefacilities@med.unc.edu) by the Monday prior to the meeting date!

Cost-Share and Matching Fund Request Submission Deadline

If you are asking CFAC for cost-sharing/matching fund requests for grant submissions, you MUST submit your request using our online form: https://www.med.unc.edu/corefacilities/cfac-cost-sharing-and-matching-fund-request-submission-form/   Funding decisions and awards will be discussed and finalized at the CFAC meeting following each submission deadline.   For assistance or advice in filling out this form please contact your CFAC representative … Read more

High-Throughput Sequencing Facility Lunch & Learn/Open House

BioInformatics Building Room 1131

Interested in meeting the High-Throughput Sequencing Facility (HTSF) staff, visiting the facility, and, spending an afternoon learning about genomics?   HTSF is hosting a lunch presentation by Dr. Piotr Mieczkowski, the HTSF Technical Director, followed by an open house of the facility!   Presentation/Lunch to begin at 12:30 in Bioinformatics 1131 with the open house … Read more