Chemical and Biomolecular Analysis Core
The Chemical and Biomolecular Analysis Core offers services, expertise, and collaboration for the research community at Augusta University, other academic institutions, and for-profit companies.
Our main instrumentation includes high field nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), circular dichroism spectrometer (CD), inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES), and fluorimeter.
The core focuses on small molecule and biomolecular classification, specifically in medicinal characterization, metabolomics, and lipidomics. The core affords investigators the ability to monitor chemical reactions, protein stability, and small molecule tissue analysis, to determine molecular structure, to access purity including trace metal content, or to study other properties of a wide variety of materials.
The core offers assisted instrument use to investigators or a data acquisition service. Consulting is available to assist with experimental design and data interpretation. University personnel who anticipate frequent use of an instrument may request training to become an independent operator.
Core Directors
Guido Verbeck, PhD
Chair, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Director of the Chemical and Biomolecular Analysis Facility
Health Science Campus, GE 1029
Augusta University
Phone: 706-667-4148
Email core: CBAF@augusta.edu
Email personal: gverbeck@augusta.edu
Ashish Sarker, PhD
Manager of the Chemical and Biomolecular Analysis Facility
Health Science Campus, GE 3067
Augusta University
Phone: 706-667-4205
Email core: CBAF@augusta.edu
Email personal: asarker@augusta.edu
Reservations
Reserve an equipment:
- Go to http://augusta.corefacilities.org
- Login in as an Internal Augusta University user.
- Log in with your Augusta University username and password.
- Click on ’list all cores’.
- Click on ‘Chemical and Biomolecular Analysis Facility’.
- Click on ‘Schedule Equipment’
- Find the instrument you wish to reserve and left click on it.
- Double click on the calendar on a time you wish to reserve (ex. If you want to create a time for 1-4 PM, double click on the 1-2pm block), a new window ‘Create a new reservation” will open. Fill all information in and click ‘Next’ to open a new window called ‘Reservation details’.
- Adjust the time so that it accurately reflects the time you want.
- When done, click ‘Save Reservation’ on the bottom left.
Request a service
- Go to http://augusta.corefacilities.org
- Login in as an Internal Augusta University user.
- Log in with your Augusta University username and password.
- Click on ’list all cores’.
- Click on ‘Chemical and Biomolecular Analysis Facility’.
- Click on ‘Request Service’
- Find the service you want to request, and click ‘initiate request’ on the right side to fill in the service request form.
- When done, click ‘submit request to researcher’.
