# Light and Electron Microscopy Core

> **NIH NIH P20** · UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN · 2024 · $277,577

## Abstract

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT 
The broad, long-term goal of the Data and Life Sciences Core (DLSC) within the Nebraska Center for Integrated 
Biomolecular Communication (CIBC) is to serve as a critical, sustainable resource for biomedical data science 
and data management expertise, service, and education at the University of Nebraska. The research performed 
by CIBC investigators will continue to result in the creation of large, complex data sets, particularly for those 
researchers with projects involving high-throughput biological data and molecular biology data. Proper 
experimental design, data generation, and subsequent analyses of these data sets requires analytical and 
computational expertise, access to scientific equipment and relevant technical expertise, high-throughput 
computing, and resources for data management. Coordinated access to such services is often cost prohibitive 
and nonintuitive for individual laboratories. Another obstacle faced by many biomedical researchers, including 
those affiliated with CIBC, is the timely and comprehensive sharing of research data and research findings with 
collaborators, stakeholders, and the public. To address these issues, CIBC will continue to support DLSC. DLSC 
provides hardware, software, and expertise in experimental design, bioinformatics, computational biology, 
statistics, computer science, data management, and advanced cyberinfrastructure to CIBC investigators and the 
wider university community. To date, DLSC has launched a web portal for data transfer, hosting, and sharing 
through Globus and the University of Nebraska’s Holland Computing Center; initiated collaborations with CIBC 
researchers leading to presentations and publications; provided access to analytical software; and hosted 
training and workforce development opportunities. The immediate goal of DLSC for Phase 2 is to expand and 
strengthen the core’s data science and data management infrastructure, services, expertise, and educational 
programming in support of CIBC investigators and the Center’s overall goals and long-term sustainability. This 
will be achieved through four aims: 1) expand an existing computational platform for data storage, analysis, and 
management to include support for biomolecular imaging experiments and integration with the Research Space 
platform, 2) promote core sustainability by initiating collaborations with personnel across the University of 
Nebraska campuses to enable complex, interdisciplinary biomedical projects that require expertise in data 
science and data management, 3) serve a critical, sustainable role in CIBC research by collaborating on CIBC 
projects, both as authors on research publications relevant to CIBC and as investigators on subsequent 
proposals for internal and external research funding, and 4) educate CIBC members about the role of data 
science in chemical and biochemical research, the potential and caveats of experimental data, and start-of-the- 
art resources and pi...

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10914314
- **Project number:** 5P20GM113126-09
- **Recipient organization:** UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN
- **Principal Investigator:** JAMES M TAKACS
- **Activity code:** P20 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2024
- **Award amount:** $277,577
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 2016-08-15 → 2026-07-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10914314

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10914314, Light and Electron Microscopy Core (5P20GM113126-09). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-27 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10914314. Licensed CC0.

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