{"489741":{"#nid":"489741","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Spotlight on Core Facilities","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EWhat do you know about the systems mass spectrometry, neuroscience, genome analysis, or microscopy and biophotonics core facilities? What would you like to know? Bring your questions and your ideas to the Petit Institute Core Facilities Symposium on Friday, Jan. 29.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe Petit Institute serves of the hub of 11 state-of-the-art core facilities (including those mentioned above). These are a shared resource for the bioengineering and bioscience community, offering consultation, training and technical support as well as access to more than 100 pieces of lab equipment valued at more than $24 million.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cIn general, we\u2019d like to better acquaint the biocommunity with our core facilities, which keep growing,\u201d says Steve Woodard, core facilities manager.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe past year has seen bio-community core facilities expand to the new Engineered Biosystems Building (where some facilities are still in different stages of development). It\u2019s part of what Woodard sees as an expanding toolbox for the bio-research community. But, as Petit Institute founding director Bob Nerem often says, research is mostly a people business, and one of the goals of the symposium supports that contention.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThis is an opportunity for everyone to meet in a central place, to hear about our different facilities from the people who actually manage them,\u201d Woodard says. \u201cThis is a great way to put a face with a name and establish an important contact.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ESo, the symposium will offer a quick and intimate glimpse at the people and tools that are here to enhance and accelerate research at Georgia Tech.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIt will begin with opening remarks from Woodward and proceed to a series of five-minute presentations from core managers talking about their specific areas of expertise. This will be broken up into sessions: three or four core manager presentations followed by questions and answers; then five more sessions following the same pattern.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EThe symposium will conclude with a poster session beginning around 11:30 a.m., lasting an hour or so.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003EIn addition to learning about the nuts and bolts and whizbang technology at their disposal, symposium attendees will hear about the new Shared User Management System, or SUMS (a new Georgia Tech-based facilities management system).\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003E\u201cThe bottom line is, we want to share information about this incredible resource, our core facilities,\u201d Woodard says. \u201cWe also see this as a chance for our world-class researchers to look at our toolbox and offer ideas on how to augment it going forward.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022p2\u0022\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":[{"value":"Symposium will focus on Petit Institute\u2019s state-of-the-art research facilities"}],"field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp class=\u0022p1\u0022\u003ESymposium will focus on Petit Institute\u2019s state-of-the-art research facilities\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Symposium will focus on Petit Institute\u2019s state-of-the-art research facilities"}],"uid":"28153","created_gmt":"2016-01-24 22:48:57","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:20:27","author":"Jerry Grillo","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2016-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2016-01-24T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"489731":{"id":"489731","type":"image","title":"Core Facilities ENGAGES","body":null,"created":"1453737600","gmt_created":"2016-01-25 16:00:00","changed":"1475895245","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:54:05","alt":"Core Facilities ENGAGES","file":{"fid":"204418","name":"engages_in_core_lab.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/engages_in_core_lab_0.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/engages_in_core_lab_0.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":490126,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/engages_in_core_lab_0.jpg?itok=3Lvbc4ec"}},"391671":{"id":"391671","type":"image","title":"Steve Woodard","body":null,"created":"1449246332","gmt_created":"2015-12-04 16:25:32","changed":"1475894406","gmt_changed":"2016-10-08 02:40:06","alt":"Steve Woodard","file":{"fid":"75564","name":"steve_woodard.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steve_woodard.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/steve_woodard.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":903317,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/steve_woodard.jpg?itok=OGuBLb0s"}}},"media_ids":["489731","391671"],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. 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