News & Announcements

The most recent news posts and ICBR announcements are shown below. For more information, or to schedule an event please call (352) 273-8030 or e-mail ICBR.

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Recent News

Robert Coney, Superior Accomplishment Award 2013

Robert Coney wins Division One Superior Accomplishment Award

May 21st, 2013

Congratulations to Robert Coney, ICBR Senior Fiscal Assistant, who won the UF Division One Superior Accomplishment Award in the Clerical/Office Support category at a ceremony held on March 26. Also [...]

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Cellomics Seminar Series starts May 7

May 2nd, 2013

Starting on Tuesday, May 7, the ICBR Cellomics division will host nine seminars featuring industry professionals and vendors covering a variety of topics. Each year, the ICBR Cellomics division hosts [...]

Illumina HiSeq® and MiSeq® Services Now Available

Apr 25th, 2013

ICBR now offers both Illumina HiSeq® and MiSeq® services through the NextGen DNA Sequencing core laboratory. Have ICBR construct your libraries or supply your own. ICBR applies standard quality control measures [...]

SEASR - Southeastern Association of Shared Resources

Join ICBR at the Southeastern Association of Shared Resources, Official Chapter of ABRF

Apr 24th, 2013

Join ICBR and other southeastern core and research biotechnology laboratories at the first annual meeting of the Southeastern Association of Shared Resources (SEASR, pronounced “Caesar”) June 13-15 in Athens, Georgia. [...]

ICBR Green Team 2013

ICBR wins UF Green Team of the Year

Apr 16th, 2013

The ICBR earned Green Team of the Year as part of the University of Florida’s Champions for Change award program. The award was presented on April 5 at the 2013 University [...]

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Reduce, Reuse & Recycle: Pipette Tip Boxes

Apr 9th, 2013

April is here, and on the University of Florida campus we all know what that means – Earth Month! In celebration, ICBR would like to share some tips to reduce, [...]

ATCC Cell Culture

Workshop: Introduction to Mammalian Cell Culture Techniques

Apr 3rd, 2013

The two-day workshop will take place from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on May 7 & 8, 2013, in ICBR Room 189. This workshop is designed for those new to mammalian cell culture or [...]

Cryo EM Symposium and Poster Session

Cryo Electron Microscopy & Tomography at UF

Mar 28th, 2013

The University of Florida ICBR Electron Microscopy and Bioimaging core laboratory, College of Medicine, and the Center for Structural Biology held an event on March 20 highlighting the expanded capabilities [...]

NextGen DNA Sequencing and PacBio

Seminar: Microbial Sequencing with the Pacific Biosciences System

Mar 21st, 2013

ICBR and Pacific Biosciences will discuss how finished and complete microbial genome assembly enables correct identification of strain origins and large structural insertions.

Publication: Vaccinia virions deficient in transcription enzymes lack a nucleocapsid

Mar 4th, 2013

Recently published in the journal Virology, the Electron Microscopy and Bioimaging core lab contributed to this publication with Richard Condit and other colleagues. In the paper, the researchers described the lack [...]