Join us for the 2026 Research Core Fair
USC Research Cores and the Office of the Vice President for Research are excited to host the 2026 USC Research Core Fair on Friday, September 18 at the Pastides Alumni Center.
Join us for:
- Lightning core introductions
- Sessions introducing new equipment and core facilities
- Student and postdoc posters and talks, with prizes
- Breakfast and lunch provided
Get Involved: Registration and presentation opportunities
The Research Core Fair is open to all USC students, faculty and staff, as well as researchers from outside USC. Register by Friday, September 4, 2026, to secure your spot.
Students and Postdocs: Submit an Abstract
Undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral scholars are invited to submit a scholarly presentation abstract when they register for the conference.
- Presentation Options: Poster presentation or lightning talk
- Submission Details: Presenters should be ready to enter the following details when they register for
the conference. (Abstracts are accepted through the registration form above.)
- Abstract title and full abstract with background, hypothesis, methods, results, conclusion and significance (abstracts are limited to 4,000 characters)
- Name of your laboratory director or prinicpal investigator
- The name of the research core facility you engaged with for your research project (if applicable; this is not required)
- Submission Deadline: Submit your abstract by Friday, September 4, 2026.
- Submission Link: Submit your abstract using the registration button below. The responsive registration form will display abstract submission fields when you select your primary role as an undergraduate student, graduate student or postdoctoral fellow.
Faculty and Staff: Serve as a poster reviewer
USC faculty and staff members are encouraged to sign up to serve as a reviewer for the student and postdoc poster session at the 2026 Research Core Fair. Submit your reviewer sign up through the registration button below by Friday, September 4, 2026.
Register to attend the 2026 Research Core Fair
Past Research Core Fairs
The 2025 Research Core Fair was held September 19, 2025, to spotlight the wealth of resources available to researchers and share the many updates we have made to core services since the 2024 fair.
Participating Cores Included:
- Instrumentation Resource Facility (IRF)
- Drug Design and Synthesis Core
- Mouse Experimentation and Gnotobiotic Core
- Center for Elemental Mass Spectrometry
- Mass Spectrometry Center
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility
- Functional Genomics Core
- Viral Vector Core
- Digital Research Services
- X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Facility
- Microscopy and Flow Cytometry Core
- Electron Microscopy Cneter
- Research Computing
- Patient Engagement Studio
- A.C. Moore Herbarium
- Healthcare Evaluation Systems and Technology Informatics Archive (HESTIA)
Sponsors Included:
- ThermoFisher Scientific
- Corning
- Illumina
- Thomas Scientific
- New England Biolabs
- Office of the Vice President for Research
The 2024 Research Core Fair was held March 15, 2024, at the Rusell House.
Participating Cores Included:
- Instrumentation Resource Facility (IRF)
- Drug Design and Synthesis Core
- Mouse Experimentation and Gnotobiotic Core
- Center for Elemental Mass Spectrometry
- SAXC Collaborative
- Mass Spectrometry Center
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility
- Functional Genomics Core
- McCausland Center for Brain Imaging
- Viral Vector Core
- Digital Research Services
- McNair Aerospace Center
- X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS) Facility
- Microscopy and Flow Cytometry Core
- Electron Microscopy Cneter
- Research Computing
Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research.
The 2023 Research Core Fair was held at the Darla Moore School of Business.
Participating Cores Included:
- Instrumentation Resource Facility (IRF)
- Drug Design and Synthesis Core
- Mouse Experimentation and Gnotobiotic Core
- Center for Elemental Mass Spectrometry
- SAXC Collaborative
- Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Facility
- Functional Genomics Core
- McCausland Center for Brain Imaging
- Viral Vector Core
- Digital Research Services
- McNair Aerospace Center
- Microscopy and Flow Cytometry Core
- South Carolina Center for Assistive Technology and Educational Research (SC-CATER)
Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research.