AIM Core

Welcome to the Core Facility of the

Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism (AIM) Center for Biomedical Research Excellence

We offer instruments that focus on High Content Analysis of image-based data, to support a wide breadth of scientific questions, especially Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism.

https://www.autophagy.center/cores

Orientation SOP

Step 1: Sign up for an iLabs account (Done since you are already here)

Step 2: Make sure your PI assigns you to at least 1 specific index number under "Membership Requests & Indexes"

Step 3: Schedule a mandatory AIM Core Orientation: Book here Staff Booking Page

Step 4: At orientation, bring your laptop, make sure you have already been able to log into iLab via computer and your phone, and your ID

Step 5: Schedule instrument specific training on iLabs AND the Staff Booking Page for the same time slot.

*ALL users must be trained by AIM CORE STAFF on every instrument they wish to use.

*AIM CORE STAFF are the only ones who can clear instrument usage

*Guidance of AIM core staff supercedes any training offered by individual labs for the safety of the instruments.

Step 6: Requesting badge access (takes ~3 business days to clear after request is made)

ONLY once you can demonstrate instrument safety and competence, the AIM Core staff with change your status to a “Trained User” giving you after-hours access to reserve instrument independently

You may then request for badge access to the room.

Prior to earning badge access, you are allowed to use the equipment during hours of operation when staff are available.

Step 7: Grant acknowlegement P20GW12117.

All users must cite the AIM CoBRE in posters and platform presentations that contain data generated in our facility by acknowledging NIH grant P20GW12117.

Please cite AND link your manuscript PMCIDs to NIH grant P20GW12117.

The mission of the AIM Scientific Core is to ensure that researchers are at the forefront of autophagy and its intersections with inflammation and metabolism in a full spectrum of diseases by:

Providing an intellectual and technological hub for exceptional service, training, cutting-edge and centralized instrumentation to discover and answer robust, unbiased and significant research questions related to mechanisms of inflammation and metabolism in health and disease with a strong focus, but not limited to, autophagy-related mechanisms.
Developing a cadre of excellent investigators and faculty via multi-year projects and cross-disciplinary collaborations to enhance the research base and research funding at UNM and statewide with aims to grow into a nationally and internationally recognized CoBRE Core Center.
Our Key Technical Capabilities:

Providing Core, Instrument and Project Consultation
Instrument Training, Assisted/Unassisted Instrument Usage and
Assisted/Unassisted Imaging and Data Analysis

The AIM center is supported by NIH grant P20GM121176

All publications that include data produced in the AIM Core MUST be BOTH linked to NIH grant P20GM121176 AND cited within the body in the paper: Click here for instructions

All posters and platform presentations MUST cite NIH grant P20GM121176

sample language to include on your posters:

(mPIs, pilots): The AIM center is supported by NIH grant P20GM121176 from NIGMS

(general): This work was supported by NIH grant P20GM121176

(non-paying associate members acknowledging core usage): This work was supported by the AIM Core funded by NIH grant P20GM121176

(EC members, mentors acknowledging AIM salary support): X.Y. was supported by NIH grant P20GM121176

If you wish to acknowledge AIM affiliation in papers (and other means of communication including internet) please add to your affiliation line: "Autophagy Inflammation and Metabolism Center of Biomedical Research Excellence...."