Bindley Bioscience Center

Technologies and expertise necessary for probing biological systems are aggregated into discrete research cores at Bindley Bioscience Center (BBC). These Cores are geared toward development of innovative methods and tools, organization of faculty expertise, and provision of unique state-of-art services to the research community. The overall functional integration of these different capabilities is designed to meet the scientific and technical challenges across bioscience disciplines and approaches. Working collaboratively with the academic units to support and coordinate the activities of these research cores, a host of BBC-affiliated Purdue researchers developed relevant core facilities, evaluated their capabilities, and acquired instrumentation and expertise that was not formerly available to Purdue researchers.

• Proteomics Facility
• Metabolomics Facility

Core infrastructure and facilities are housed in the Bindley Bioscience Center building; however, many are distributed around other West Lafayette campus locations. The Research Cores are staffed by experienced investigators, many of whom will have appointments in the Research Professorial ranks. Core technologies and applications that support the research themes of the Bindley Bioscience Center are under continual development. At present they include:

	Biomolecular Technologies Access to the Research Cores of the Bindley Bioscience Center is available to researchers whose projects require biomolecular analyses. The Cores are integrated and accessible at any level of involvement that is appropriate, from research collaborations to fee-for-service analyses. State-of-the-art instrumentation is available for proteomic, metabolomic, and genomic analyses. For more information-CLICK HERE
	BioNanotechnology Opportunities to advance bioscience research with technology development at the atomic and molecular scale are increasingly recognized, particularly in pursuit of new diagnostics and therapeutics. This core takes advantage of Purdue strengths in micro and nano-scale engineering and the capacity of remarkable new Birck Nanotechnology Center to focus on nanomedicine. Approaches range from microfluidic 'lab-on-a-chip' detection systems to biosensor development and application to biopolymers for nanofabrication and detection schemes to innovative optic/photonic methods for biomarker discovery and characterization. For more information-CLICK HERE
	Computational Life Sciences & Informatics Infrastructure and informatics tool development for ultrasensitive and high throughput analysis of complex biological mixtures is achieved with active leveraging of the substantial resources in this area at Purdue and Discovery Park. Unique solutions in development include vendor-independent data formats from analytical instruments and active interfacing to instrumentation for real-time control of instrument data acquisition. For more information-CLICK HERE
	Cytomics & Imaging Cytomics aims to position proteomic and genomic information in the cellular context (the cytome). A major goal of this core is provide the links from molecules to function at the cellular level. Approaches include novel multispectral cellular and subcellular imaging techniques and instrumentation and algorithm development to improve sensitivity and throughput of cytometric and imaging techniques. Innovative methods for correlation of cytomics / imaging data with proteomic / metabolomic data are also in development. For more information-CLICK HERE