Core Facilities There are many facilities, services, centers and institutes across the UCI campus that are available to support research activities. Home Research Core Facilities Access to Instruments, Technologies and Services To update or add research-related facilities, please contact the Director of Research Operations, Shauna Stark at starks@hs.uci.edu. Animal Facility University Laboratory Animal Resources (ULAR) Biobanking Alzheimer's Disease Research Center Experimental Tissue Resource (Pathology Research Service Core) Institute for Clinical and Translational Science (ICTS) Biostatistics & Research Support Biobehavioral Shared Resource (Cancer Center) UCI Center for Statistical Consulting (Statistics) BioStatistics Shared Resource (BSR) ICTS Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Research Design (BERD) BSL-3/ABSL-3 Laboratories The BSL3 laboratories at UCI are core facilities owned and operated by the School of Medicine and the School of Biological Sciences. These laboratories are available to researchers at UCI, with limited capabilities for outside contract work. BSL3 laboratories are highly engineered facilities built to carry out research with high-risk infectious pathogens. UCI schools provide management and oversight for operations of the facilities. UCI’s High Containment Program provides specialized expertise in regulatory and safety requirements to the departments/schools that work in and manage the laboratory spaces. The University High Containment Laboratory Officer (HCLO) and BSL-3 Lab Manager oversee the regulatory and compliance-based aspects of UCI BSL-3 laboratories by providing operations support, ensuring regular maintenance, overseeing annual laboratory verifications, ensuring all regulatory and safety standards are met, and that personnel training is effective. The UCI BSL3 facilities have dedicated single-pass HEPA-filtered exhaust under negative pressure & directional airflow with sophisticated emergency backup systems and alarms for continuous real-time monitoring of the individual laboratory room pressures and containment status. One-way pass-through autoclaves are used to sterilize all waste out of the facilities. Questions about UCI BSL-3 labs? Contact UCI BSL-3 Laboratory Manager Lauren Hitchcock at wiestl@uci.edu. Questions about UCI’s Biosafety programs or detailed information regarding the UCI facilities? Visit the High Containment Program page. Questions about BSL-3 Training? Visit the BSL-3 Training Program page. Computing & Artificial Intelligence High Performance Computing Cluster (HCP) Center for Artificial Intelligence in Diagnostic Medicine (CAIDM) Electron Microscopy Biological Electron Microscopy Facility (A&N) Irvine Materials Research Institute (IMRI) Flow Cytometry Flow Cytometry Facility (Institute of Immunology) Stem Cell Research Center Genomics Genomics High Throughput Facility (GHTF) Imaging Facility for Imaging and Brain Research (FIBRE) In Vivo Functional Onco-Imaging (IVFOI) - MR Imaging UCI Medical Products Evaluation Program - Imaging Services Preclinical and Translational Neuroimaging (PTIC) Laboratory Training Integrated Training for High Containment BSL-3 Laboratories Manufacturing Good Manufacturing Practice Optics & Microscopy Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics (LFD) Laser Microbeam and Medical Program (LAMMP) Facility Laser Spectroscopy Labs Nonlinear Optical Microscopy Lab Optical Biology Core Other Resources UCI Office of Research Shared Facilities Depot Spectroscopy & Spectrometry Center for Virus Research - Proteomics Mass Spectrometry (Chemistry) UCI High-End Mass Spectrometry Facility Stem Cell & Transgenics Stem Cell Research Center Transgenic Mouse Facility (TMF)