At NYU Langone, there are about a dozen core facilities. If you want to do something that needs a particular technique, there's usually a core facility at the university that you can use.
These include technologies that are used at the organism level, such as imaging technologies, or at the cellular level, such as spatial transcriptomics spatial genomics metabolomics.
There's also a computing core facility, which is really important. So they give you access to a very high end cluster, which has a lot of GPU nodes, a lot of memory, a lot of disk space. We provide the expertise to run those instruments so we can help you do all of the imaging and all of the data analysis that you would need and we can train you how to analyze it yourself, and how to collect it yourself too.
One of our most advanced facilities is the Cryo-electron Microscope Facility at which you can get a protein structure at the atomic or subatomic level. These shared resources enable research across campus for all areas of biology, such as neurobiology, cardio, physiology, or virology, whether you want to study SARS, Covid too, or maybe bacteria that are resistant to different antibiotics.
At some other schools, if they don't have the equipment, you might have to go to a national facility and then you might have to wait three months or six months in advance before you actually get access to it. Whereas here, you could book it next week and be on it next week and get your data quickly and then move on with that.
The shared resources labs work very closely together and they form a big team and this enables the best type of science because nowadays nothing can be really done completely at the individual level. So this community of highly dedicated, highly expert people will really enable world-class science.
