Recharge Activities in Pharmacology

Website: Lipidomics Core

Primary Contacts: Dr. Oswald Quehenberger, Aaron Armando, Milda Simonaitis

Location: BSB Building, Room 4079

Activity Description:  The Clinic contains eight exam rooms and one consultation room where participants and staff can discuss informed consent or other confidential information; two treatment rooms with two beds each, which accommodate research procedures; a medication room; lab processing room; centralized nursing station; and an experimental pharmacy.

Services offered at the clinic include conscious sedation; infusions; biopsies; oral glucose tolerance testing; pharmacokinetics studies with sample processing; phlebotomy (up to 600 ml); collection, processing, and shipping of specimens; dietary consultation; indirect calorimetry; and exercise testing. Equipment includes five infusion chairs, five exam tables, DEXA scanner, portable ultrasound, treadmill systems, a metabolic cart, and, in the near future, a Pyxis machine. Overnight stays can also be accommodated.

Major Equipment: SCIEX 6500 triple quadrupole linear ion trap mass spectrometer (6500QTRAP), Waters Acquity Ultra-High Performance Liquid Chromatography (UPLC) system, SCIEX 4000 triple quadrupole linear ion trap mass spectrometer (4000QTRAP) with Shimazu High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) system, ThermoFisher Q Exactive mass spectrometer with Vanquish UHPLC, Agilent 5975 gas chromatograph with Mass Selective Detector (GC/MSD), Gerstel Custom-Designed Robotic Workstation

Website: Multiplexd Quantatative Proteomic Services

Primary Contacts: Dr. David Gonzalez

Location: BSB Building, Room 4091

Activity Description:  The Collaborative Center for Multiplexd Proteomics provides the following services:

• TMT Quantitative protein profiling from different sample origins
• TMT Quantitative Immunoprecipitation analysis
• TMT Phosphoproteomics analysis
• Single Mass Spectrometry Run (label-free)