New Mexico’s INBRE program offers diverse opportunities to RAIN faculty and students, including undergraduate research experiences and access to Data Science Core resources. RAIN faculty can benefit from consultation services, workshops, and online courses in data science, along with access to advanced research facilities like the Chemical Analysis and Instrumentation Lab and the Microscopic Imaging Core Suite.
Undergraduate Student Research Opportunities through SRP
New Mexico’s INBRE program offers the New Mexico INBRE Summer Experience (NISE) to undergraduate students from RAIN state institutions, providing housing, competitive salaries, and professional development activities. The program includes a Bootcamp for students without prior research experience, offering them hands-on microbiology research opportunities and preparing them for scientific careers. Additionally, the NISE Internship pairs students with NMSU faculty preceptors for independent biomedical research projects, aiming to enhance their research skills and facilitate their entry into graduate programs in biomedical or health research.
Data Science Core (DSC) Resources
The NM-INBRE Data Science Core offers comprehensive consulting services to support biomedical, health, and community-based research in RAIN states, encompassing experimental design, access to public health datasets, analysis of biospecimen and -omics data, environmental and chemical data consultation, statistical analyses, data visualization, bioinformatics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. Additionally, the core provides workshops on genomic topics and online courses covering R programming, data visualization, Bayesian data analysis, survival analysis, epidemiological data analysis, and leveraging the Cancer Genome Atlas Program data. These resources aim to enhance the research capabilities of RAIN network scientists and facilitate their access to cutting-edge data science methodologies.
NMSU Research Cores Program
The NMSU Research Cores Program (RCP), funded by the Office of the Vice President for Research and directed by Dr. Tanner Schaub, oversees shared-access research infrastructure for individual PIs, interdisciplinary teams, and academic partners. Among its current facilities, the Chemical Analysis and Instrumentation Laboratory (CAIL) provides state-of-the-art mass spectrometry resources for proteomic, lipidomic, and metabolomic analyses, supporting numerous interdisciplinary collaborations and student research. Additionally, the CAIL is expanding its capabilities with a second suite of advanced chemical analysis equipment, fostering collaboration across various research fields. Similarly, the Microscopic Imaging Core Suite (MICS) offers cutting-edge microscopy platforms for histology and bio-imaging research, including a new ultrahigh-resolution Field-emission Scanning Electron Microscope, enhancing biological imaging capabilities for interdisciplinary research endeavors.