UTCVM Facilities & Equipment
The College of Veterinary Medicine contains approximately 18,600 square feet of research laboratory space. These labs contain standard equipment and resources, in addition to the following specialized equipment that is available to all UTCVM investigators:
| CT and MRI |
Equine Salt Water Spa |
FACS Aria Cell Sorter |
Linear Accelerator
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Microplate Reader
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Nandrop 2000
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| Hydrofloatation Tank |
Hyperbaric Oxygen Chambers |
ImageQuant LAS 4000 mini |
| SmartCycler |
Transmission Electronmicroscope |
Underwater Treadmills |
University Facilities & Equipment
Graduate and professional students and faculty also have access to core facilities across the university campus, including the following:
Current UT Core Facilities
| Advanced Microscopy and Imaging Center. Core Manager: Jaydeep Kolape |
Biological and Small Molecule Mass Spectrometry Core (BSMMSC). Core Director: Shawn Campagna |
| CEB Bioimaging Center. Core Director: Steven Ripp. |
Ion Beam Materials Laboratory. Core Manager: William J. Weber. |
| JIAM Advanced Photoelectronic Spectrometer Lab. |
JIAM Electromagnetic Properties Lab (JIAM EMP). Contact: Rupam Mukherjee |
| JIAM Electron Microscopy. Core Manager: John Dunlap. |
JIAM Molecular Beam Epitaxy Lab. |
| JIAM Micro-Processing Research Facility (MPRF). Core Director: Eric Lukosi. |
JIAM X-Ray Diffraction Core Facility. Core Manager: Michael Koehler |
| Laboratory for Environmental Archaeology. Core Manager: Howard Cyr |
Polymer Characterization Laboratory. Core Manager: Katrina Pangilinan |
| User eXperience Lab and Messaging Effects Core. Core Manager: Rachel Volentine. |
UT Genomics Core. Core Manager: Frank Loeffler
Sanger sequencing |
| Next-generation Illumina sequencing |
UT Water Quality Core Facility. Core Manager: Adrian Gonzalez |
| Bioinformatics Resource Center. Resource Contact: Robert Murdoch |
OIT’s Research Computing Support Group. Resource Contact: Robert A Muenchen.
- Apps.utk.edu – Windows system with an extensive set of research software, some of which is centrally available only there. With special arrangements, jobs can run multiple days and use up to 24 gigabytes of system memory. Software is listed at http://oit.utk.edu/software.
- Statistical Consulting – including assistance with experimental design, sample size determination, web survey design and deployment, data graphics, data analysis, data and text mining, and writing/editing results sections.
- Qualitative Research Consulting – assistance with research design and methodology, data organization and analysis, framework and research question development, and computer-based analysis.
- Science & Engineering Support – assistance with MATLAB, Mathematica, ImageJ, etc.
- Data Management Consulting – includes importing data from a wide range of formats, transforming, merging, concatenating, reshaping, and exporting.
- Scantron Services – this high speed device reads data from standard or custom forms such as surveys.
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Support for UTCVM Researchers
Science Editing
Faculty and staff at UTCVM have the option to have their grants or manuscripts edited in-house at no charge.
The college employs a full-time science editor,
Emily Ford, who will
copyedit proposals, journal manuscripts, and other scholarly works for language, mechanics, and conformance to agency/journal guidelines, as well as edit substantially for logical flow, clarity, concision, and consistency. She asks that you please allow one week for completion of all editing requests.
Literature Searches
Veterinary medicine librarian Jeanine Williamson is available to assist with literature searches and maintains a Research Support web page. She also assists with replace, reduce, refine searches for IACUC protocols.
Other Support