Save the Date! - 2026 Research Core Fair

This year's Research Core Fair will take place on Friday, September 18th, from 9 am - 3pm at the Pastides Alumni Center in Columbia, SC. The event will include updates on new instruments, Research Core staff tables, vendor tables, poster presentations, and presenter prizes. Breakfast and lunch will be provided to all registered attendees.

The Research Core Fair is open to all USC students, faculty and staff, as well as researchers from outside USC. The day will feature 10-15 minute talks broken down into focused sections.

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Past Research Core Fairs

2025 Research Core Fair

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

2024 Research Core Fair

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.

 

2023 Research Core Fair

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.