Even in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, ASU Core Facilities remains dedicated to our customers and their important work. Core Facilities staff and researchers are engaged in a variety of projects that are directly supporting the fight against coronavirus.
In addition to taking safety measures, Core Facilities staff and researchers are engaged in a variety of projects that are directly supporting the fight against coronavirus.
ASU NanoFab is prototyping devices structures for researchers that may be used to detect the coronavirus, while Instrument Design & Fabrication is designing and rapidly producing equipment and enclosures for safe testing.
Over in the Biosciences Core, the ASU Genomics Facility is performing Next Generation sequencing on virus samples, while the Bioinformatics Facility is lending their analytical expertise. In addition, the Flow Cytometry Facility is working directly with principal investigators in the Biodesign Institute on coronavirus research projects. As many members of the Biosciences Core have experience with Biosafety Level 2 and 3 research, they are contributing to sample testing as well as assisting with sample collection and processing.
ASU Research Computing is participating in numerous coronavirus-related projects on both national and local levels. Staff are creating a secure, multitenant, easily administered computational infrastructure that is both HIPAA compliant and scalable. This holds promise for supporting personalized data projects and predictive epidemiological modeling.
Nationally, Research Computing is allocating idle time on their computing systems to Folding at Home, a distributed computing project that is searching for potential pharmaceutical treatments for COVID-19. Research Computing also applied to the COVID-19 HPC Consortium, a public-private effort led by the White House and various federal agencies that will provide free computational resources to researchers working on COVID-19 scientific research or projects.
Our commitment to the research community remains steadfast.