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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Important Center Announcement: Celebrating Dedicated Leadership!

Notebook-style tribute graphic from the Nebraska Center for Biotechnology honoring the conclusion of a distinguished term of service. A green panel on the left thanks former director Daniel P. Schachtman for more than a decade of leadership and contributions to research at UNL. Across an open notebook are photos of Schachtman in laboratories, greenhouses, presentations, and group gatherings. Arbor Axe House is recognized for hosting a celebration.

UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Core Directors Dr. Bara Altartouri (Microscopy) & Dr. Eduardo Romero (CryoEM) are representing their Cores this week at the 2026 National IDeA Symposium of Biomedical Research Excellence (NISBRE)! #NISBRE2026 #Microscopy #CryoEM

Core directors standing in front of CryoEM poster at the NISBRE conference

Core director standing in front of CryoEM poster at the NISBRE conference, discussing his core with an attendee.

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Office of Research and Innovation @unlresearch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

✨ BIG NEWS ✨ Edgar Cahoon, director of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s Center for Plant Science Innovation, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the nation’s highest honors for scientists and engineers. Want to read more? Check the link! 🔗 go.unl.edu/6djx

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Cahoon elected to National Academy of Sciences

Edgar Cahoon, director of UNL's Center for Plant Science Innovation, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the nation's highest honors for scientists and engineers.

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Summer is right around the corner, which means field season is approaching! Our cores are here to support a wide range of research needs as you plan for the months ahead. Reach out today! go.unl.edu/ika2 #Biotech #SummerResearch #FieldSeason #UNL @unlresearch.bsky.social

Graphic promoting the Nebraska Center for Biotechnology Core Facilities. The left side shows a collage of laboratory images, including scientific instruments, sample vials, microscopes, and data screens. The right side lists services: Microscopy, Cryo‑Electron Microscopy, Flow Cytometry, Single Cell Genomics, Proteomics & Metabolomics, and Bioinformatics. Website: biotech.unl.edu.

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

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!

Contact us for your 2026 projects: https://biotech.unl.edu/

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

@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...

Biotechnology Spring course 2026 information flyer

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

📢 Only one week left! Contact Dirk, the director of Single Cell, to schedule your experiment before the discount ends! 🔗http://go.unl.edu/on0v

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University of Nebraska Medical Center @unmc.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Remembering the lives lost and honoring the heroes of 9/11.

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

🔴 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

A split picture with a snapshot of each of the center for biotechnology six core facilities on the left and their names listed on the right side. Post goes with the Series: #InsideUNLBiotech

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

🌊 #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

Lasers inside flow cytometry equipment. Photo credit: Craig Chandler

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

🧪 #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

Researcher in PMF loading a sample into the Thermo Q-Exactive – High Field (QE-HF) coupled to Thermo Vanquish H binary UPLC. Photo credit: Craig Chandler.

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

📢 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

Graduate resource fair flyer. Event 08/21 from 10-Noon on City Campus Seaton Hall Lawn

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

❄️ #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

200kV Glacios CryoTEM instrument with a protein structure pasted on the side wall in the UNL cryoEM core facility. Instrument photo credit: Craig Chandler.

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

🧬 #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

Core director working through data with researchers in the UNL bioinformatics core facility. Photo credit: Craig Chandler

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

🧫 #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

Core director and researchers working in the UNL single cell core facility. Photo credit: Craig Chandler

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

🔬#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

Microscopy Image by Dr. You Zhou showing a take on the UNL "N".

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

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

Six Core Facilities of the Biotech Center:
🧬 Bioinformatics
❄️ CryoEM
🌊 Flow Cytometry
🔬 Microscopy
🧪 Proteomics & Metabolomics
🧫 Single Cell Genomics

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School of Natural Resources, University of Nebraska - Lincoln @unl-snr.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Visit the east campus Discovery Days & Farmer's Market this Saturday, Aug. 9th from 10am-1pm! go.unl.edu/discoverydays

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

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

Two of our REU students with their posters

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Congrats, Joanna! New article out in collaboration with our Microscopy Core!

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

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

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

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

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Acknowledging Biotech in Publications | Nebraska Center for Biotechnology | Nebraska

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

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!

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

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

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Bioinformatics Core @unl-bcrf.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

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

Three professors are in front of research posters.

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

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

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

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

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Office of Research and Innovation @unlresearch.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

🎉 A @UNLincoln research team has achieved a key milestone in a national competition to advance targeted genome editing. Their work could help lead to new treatments for both common and rare diseases. Read about their accomplishment here ➡️ go.unl.edu/a4rf

Janos Zempleni, Willa Cather Professor of molecular nutrition, leads one of 14 teams receiving a Phase 2 prize in the National Institutes of Health’s Targeted Genome Editor Delivery (TARGETED) Challenge. It is a three-phase competition with prizes totaling $6 million.

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Office of Research and Innovation @unlresearch.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Annual flu shots could become a thing of the past under a new vaccine strategy developed and tested by @UNLincoln virologist Eric Weaver and his laboratory team. go.unl.edu/xmy0

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

🎉 2025 Biotech Milton E. Mohr Award Recipients 👏 We are pleased to recognize this year’s Milton E. Mohr awardees! Join us in congratulating these students! #MiltonEMohr #Award #Biotech #Congrats @unlresearch.bsky.social @unlmicro.bsky.social @unl-snr.bsky.social @unlanisci.bsky.social

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Join the Nebraska Center for Integrated Biomolecular Communication for the NCIBC 2025 Symposium: RNA Biology, Structure, and AI-Driven Innovations 🗓️Monday, April 28, 2025 Register for Free: ncibc.unl.edu/events/2025-...

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🌟 Spring Into Biotech!🌟 That’s a wrap on our Biotech class! 🎉 After a semester of hands-on learning, facility tours, & final presentations, students are receiving a $500 voucher to continue their research journey. Want in on the experience? Join us next year to explore biotech! 🔬 #Biotech #UNL

Spring 2025 biotech class. Pictures of the students/ professors and the various classes during the semester.

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Join us for a FluoroFinder Webinar! Learn how to optimize your Flow Cytometry experiments. 📅 April 16, 2025 📍 Online, 1:00 CT 🔗Register today: go.unl.edu/r4bt #FluoroFinder #FlowCytometry #Fluorophores #ResearchTools #FlowPanelDesign #ScienceWebinar

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Bioinformatics Core @unl-bcrf.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Chia Sin Liew from our Core is guiding the students today through assembling a genome, identifying genes, assigning functions, and visualizing the results. This is part of the Nebraska Biotech Center Core Facilities course. #BiotechSpringClass #Bioinformatics #LifeSciences

Bioinformatician explains genome assembly, gene prediction, and annotation to students.

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

We LOVE getting to do research with you! ❤️ Biotech Team

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Shared research facilities (Cores), are essential in advancing scientific discovery. Expert leaders in these cores play a pivotal role in guiding researchers, optimizing resources, and driving impactful results. We love our experts! Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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A Novel Paradigm for Expert Core Facility Staff Training

Scientific research relies on a range of technologies, many of which are developing at a fast pace. Technical experts able to advise researchers on ex…

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Official Two Week countdown! February 12th starting at noon, #GlowBigRed 2025 will commence. We’d love for you to consider giving to Biotech—and the best part? Your gift can have double the impact! What could be better?! #GiveBack #DoubleTheImpact 💕🔗https://go.unl.edu/dn7w

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Spring Into Biotech! We're thrilled to welcome a brand-new group of students to our Biotechnology Spring Class! Follow along on their journey through all the cores. #BiotechSpringClass #LifeScience #Nebraska #UNL

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

‼️Attention @unlincoln.bsky.social Undergraduate and Graduate Science Students! The Milton E. Mohr Awards Program is now accepting applications through March 15, 2025! Visit the website to apply and learn more: go.unl.edu/mmfy26 #MiltonEMohr #Award #Apply

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

We're about a month away from #GlowBigRed 2025—and giving is officially open! The big event is noon to noon on February 12th and 13th. Support cutting-edge research & education by bridging funding gaps. Learn more: go.unl.edu/dn7w @NebraskaNFund @UNLresearch @unlincoln.bsky.social sky.social

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

🎉 Happy New Year from the @biotechunl.bsky.social! 🧬🔬 We're here to continue to support your research in 2025 with cutting-edge instrumentation, expertise, and training. What breakthroughs will you achieve this year? Let’s make it happen together! 🚀 #BiotechResearch Connect with us: go.unl.edu/ncb

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UNL Center for Biotechnology @biotechunl.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

🎉 Excited to join the Bluesky community! 🌱🔬 We support cutting-edge research with advanced core facilities: @unl-bcrf.bsky.social, CryoEM, Flow Cytometry, Microscopy, Proteomics/Metabolomics, and Single-Cell Genomics. Follow along for news, workshops, and insights into biotechnology! 🧬

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