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UNL Center for Biotechnology
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We are the Nebraska Center for Biotechnology, providing advanced research technologies and training workshops to support life science research. We are comprised of six expert-led core facilities. Contact us today! #Biotechnology
One week into 2026 & we’re excited for what’s ahead!
Have a new project, questions about workflows, or samples you’re ready to test? The Center for Biotechnology team is here support you. Don’t hesitate to contact our team! biotech.unl.edu

We look forward to working with you in the year ahead!
January 8, 2026 at 6:38 PM
@unlincoln.bsky.social Grad students!

Sign up for the Spring 2026 Biotech Core Facilities Course!

📅 Jan 13 - March 31
📍 In-person | Beadle | Tues/Thurs 9:00 - 10:15 am
💡 1 Credit | Limit 24 students
💵 Complete the course & earn a $500 voucher!

Learn More: go.unl.edu/biotechcours...
November 19, 2025 at 6:46 PM
📢 Only one week left!

Contact Dirk, the director of Single Cell, to schedule your experiment before the discount ends!

🔗http://go.unl.edu/on0v
Stretch your Single Cell Genomics budget!

Thanks to a UNL @10xgenomics.bsky.social reagent discount, we are passing the savings directly to our users until September 25, 2025.

Learn more: 🔗https://go.unl.edu/on0v

#SingleCell #Save #LimitedOffer #UNL #10xGenomics
September 18, 2025 at 7:37 PM
📰 Our Fall 2025 Newsletter is live!

Check it out: newsroom.unl.edu/announce/bio...
Fall 2025 Center for Biotechnology News | Announce | University of Nebraska-Lincoln
newsroom.unl.edu
September 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Remembering the lives lost and honoring the heroes of 9/11.
September 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
🔴 School is back in Session! 🔴

Starting research this fall? 🍂 We’ve been spotlighting our six cores over the past week! Catch up with #InsideUNLBiotech and see what’s available right here @unlincoln.bsky.social.

🔗https://biotech.unl.edu

#Research #CoreFacilities
@unlresearch.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
🌊 #InsideUNLBiotech: FLOW CYTOMETRY

We provide advanced flow cytometry services. Analyzing cell traits, fluorescence, DNA content & more. Our fleet includes a 16-parameter analyzer, 4-way cell sorter, nanoparticle analyzer & lipid nanoparticle maker.

🔗https://go.unl.edu/fccf
August 26, 2025 at 1:58 PM
🧪 #InsideUNLBiotech: PROTEOMICS & METABOLOMICS

We use mass spectrometry to identify, quantify & characterize proteins and their modifications. For metabolites, we can measure targeted compounds or profile the full metabolome in biological samples.

🔗 go.unl.edu/pmf
August 25, 2025 at 2:46 PM
📢 Calling all graduate students 📢
Join us TOMORROW, 8/21, from 10 am - 12 pm in the Seaton Hall Courtyard.

✔️Discover campus organizations
✔️Learn how to get involved
✔️Score FREE swag & goodies

See you there!
@unlincoln.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
❄️ #InsideUNLBiotech: CRYOEM
Our 200 kV Cryo-electron microscope images frozen samples at atomic resolution, magnifying at 70,000×+. It reveals protein structures, drug targets & more, advancing discoveries in life & disease.

🔗http://go.unl.edu/cryo
August 20, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🧬 #InsideUNLBiotech: BIOINFORMATICS
@unl-bcrf.bsky.social

We turn large biological datasets into insight—analyzing genomics, transcriptomics, single-cell, microbiomes & more. We also manage data & life science software on UNL’s supercomputer.

Reach out today:🔗 go.unl.edu/bcrf
August 18, 2025 at 5:06 PM
🧫 #InsideUNLBiotech: SINGLE CELL GENOMICS

We analyze individual cells to uncover variability often hidden in whole tissue sequencing. Our methods barcode, amplify, and prepare samples for high-res genome & transcriptome analysis.

Reach out today:🔗 go.unl.edu/scg
August 15, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🔬#InsideUNLBiotech: MICROSCOPY

Our Core helps explore shapes, sizes, surfaces, and structures of biological and chemical materials.
We offer light, confocal, and electron microscopes—capturing details 600,000× smaller than the eye can see.

🔗http://go.unl.edu/mcrf
August 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Summer is wrapping up - Let's explore each of our cores before the semester begins!

🧬 Bioinformatics
❄️ CryoEM
🌊 Flow Cytometry
🔬 Microscopy
🧪 Proteomics & Metabolomics
🧫 Single Cell Genomics

Follow along to get a glimpse of what each core offers your research.

#InsideUNLBiotech #Research
August 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Visit the east campus Discovery Days & Farmer's Market this Saturday, Aug. 9th from 10am-1pm!
go.unl.edu/discoverydays
August 8, 2025 at 1:58 PM
This summer, we hosted 2 REU students! They wrapped up their time here, presenting posters at the Nebraska Summer Research Program Symposium! 🎉 They did great work in our PMF and @unl-bcrf.bsky.social cores as part of the Rojas Lab's Beneficial Bacteria group. Well done! 👏

#REU #UNL #BiotechCores
August 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Congrats, Joanna! New article out in collaboration with our Microscopy Core!
July 15, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Stretch your Single Cell Genomics budget!

Thanks to a UNL @10xgenomics.bsky.social reagent discount, we are passing the savings directly to our users until September 25, 2025.

Learn more: 🔗https://go.unl.edu/on0v

#SingleCell #Save #LimitedOffer #UNL #10xGenomics
July 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Summer paper writing? Don’t forget to acknowledge the Biotech Cores that supported your work! Proper acknowledgments help us stay funded to keep helping you. RRIDs & citation info: biotech.unl.edu/acknowledge-...

#ResearchSupport #RRIDs #Acknowledgments #Cores
Acknowledging Biotech in Publications | Nebraska Center for Biotechnology | Nebraska
biotech.unl.edu
June 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Thanks to all who joined our SEM/EDS Workshop! Hands-on training in imaging & analysis.

Imaging highlights: raw 🐔, nematodes, biochar, & a coin w/ powder residue!

Thanks, Bob @ Hitachi & Sonika @ Oxford Instruments, for your time, expertise, & donation!

➡️ Curious about your sample? Come test it!
June 13, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Dirk, director of our Flow Cytometry & Single Cell Core, was invited by @10xgenomics.bsky.social to speak at #CYTO2025 last week! 🌍 He shared how he bridges cytometry & genomics here at @unlincoln.bsky.social.

We’re already eyeing #CYTO2026—join us in Florida!

#Cores #SingleCell #FlowCytometry
June 12, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Presenting the Nebraska Centers for Integrated Biomolecular Communication and Biotechnology Microscopy/CryoEM and the Systems Biology Cores at the Great Plains IDeA-CTR (lnkd.in/gi4T74rE) regional conference in Rapid City, SD. #bioinformatics #biotechnology #research @biotechunl.bsky.social
June 9, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Only a couple spots remaining!
Join us and @Hitachi_US next month for the SEM / EDS workshop!

➡️Don't wait, register today: go.unl.edu/3mzf

@unlresearch.bsky.social
May 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Join us next month for the SEM / EDS workshop hosted by our Microscopy Core! You won't want to miss out on this training opportunity!

Register: go.unl.edu/3mzf
May 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Well done! Congrats to all those graduating!
#Biotech #Graduate
May 16, 2025 at 7:55 PM