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University of Nevada, Reno Homepage The Center for Integrative Neuroscience COBRE Center of Biomedical Research Excellence within the Institute for Neuroscience
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Core facilities

Shared resources and facilities for neuroscience research

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Administrative Core

The Adminstrative Core provides support and organizational structure for the research Cores.

  • Michael Webster, Director and Principal Investigator
  • Leann Kumataka, Program Manager
  • Ramona Houmanfar, Assessment

External Advisory Committee

  • Geoff Boynton, Psychology, University of Washington
  • Branch Coslett, Neurology, University of Pennsylvania
  • David Field, Psychology, Cornell University
  • Anne Hart, Neuroscience, Brown University
  • Mark McCourt, Psychology, North Dakota State University
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Cellular and Molecular Imaging Core

The mission of the Cellular and Molecular Imaging (CMI) Core facility of the Integrative Neuroscience COBRE center is to provide infrastructure and resources necessary to perform cellular and molecular imaging of biomolecules as well as media preparation to further research at the University of Nevada, Reno. The Core facility is located on the third floor of the Fleischmann Lifesciences building in the Biology Department of the College of Science.

  • Alexander van der Linden, Director
  • Andrew Yanez, Core Imaging Specialist
Learn more about the CMI Core
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Computational Modeling and Analysis Core

The Computational Modeling and Analysis (CMA) Core provides access to state-of-the-art high-performance computing (HPC), cloud computing (CP), Networking, and advanced analytical software, while providing services to aid investigators in neuroscience and biomedical research to develop more effective data analytics pipelines.

  • Alireza Tavakkoli, Director
  • Michael Rudd, Core Statistician
Learn more about the Computational Modeling Core
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Neuroimaging Core

This facility is designed to support training, use, and analysis of a variety of structural and functional neural imaging techniques. The core is located at EMM 300, which houses a set of workstations and software for neuroimaging analyses, along with neuroimaging systems. The core provides access to fMRI in humans and small animal MRI by partnering with scanning facilities at Renown Hospital, Reno and the University of California, Davis.

  • Lars Strother, Director
  • Sean O'Neil, Research Manager
Learn more about the Neuroimaging Core
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Virtual and Augmented Reality Interaction Core

The Virtual & Augmented Reality Interaction Core (VARI) provides state-of-the art virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) hardware to perform neuroscience or social science research at the University.

The VARI core is located in the William N. Pennington Engineering Building. This core also provides VR/AR software development services (and to a limited extent mobile app development) to help University faculty with research that aims to use VR/AR.

  • Eelke Folmer, Director
Learn more about the VARI Core

The Center for Integrative Neuroscience

1664 N. Virginia Street, Reno, NV 89557
Effie Mona Mack (EMM), Mail stop: 0296
kumataka@unr.edu
(775) 784-4780

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