BioPACIFIC Materials Innovation Platform is a new National Science Foundation user facility based at the UCLA and UCSB campuses. This facility is dedicated to promoting and supporting research at the intersection of synthetic biology and materials synthesis.
BioPACIFIC MIP facilities are free for all U.S.-based researchers via a peer-reviewed user proposal process.
Major User Facilities and Capabilities:
- Living Biofoundry: Automated gene assembly, amplification, transformation, strain growth, and metabolite analysis
- Synthetic Chemistry: Robotic synthesis, flow chemistry, peptoid/peptide synthesizer, monomer libraries
- Additive Manufacturing: Light- and extrusion-based 3D printers, including a bioprinter for living cells
- Soft Materials Characterization: Next-generation XRD, microrheology, microED
- Data and Computational: Multiscale biopolymer simulation
This presents a great opportunity to gain access to state-of-the-art facilities with high-throughput capabilities and expert support to accelerate your research. It is also an opportunity to drive new collaborations with faculty across the UCSB and UCLA campuses.
Additionally, BioPACIFIC MIP is organizing a summer school that will give graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and faculty members the opportunity for hands-on training in their facilities. If you have students interested in the summer school program, they can register here.
Funding to offset travel expenses for both the summer school and research at BioPACIFIC MIP is available for eligible users.
For questions, please contact Dr. Eleni Papananou directly at hellen@ucsb.edu.
