Welcome to the Autophagy, Inflammation and Metabolism (AIM) Core

The mission of the AIM Scientific Core is to ensure that researchers are at the forefront of autophagy and its intersections with inflammation and metabolism in a full spectrum of diseases by:

1. Providing an intellectual and technological hub for exceptional service, training, cutting-edge and centralized instrumentation to discover and answer robust, unbiased and significant research questions related to mechanisms of inflammation and metabolism in health and disease with a strong focus, but not limited to, autophagy-related mechanisms.
2. Developing a cadre of excellent investigators and faculty via multi-year projects and cross-disciplinary collaborations to enhance the research base and research funding at UNM and statewide with aims to grow into a nationally and internationally recognized CoBRE Core Center.  
3. Our Key Technical Capabilities:
• Providing Core, Instrument and Project Consultation
• Instrument Training, Assisted/Unassisted Instrument Usage and
• Assisted/Unassisted Imaging and Data Analysis

How to get access:

1. Email us at AIMcore@salud.unm.edu
2. We will reply with a list of what to bring to orientation
3. Book an orientation session with us using the link: Book AIM Core Services

At orientation

1. We will teach your how to use our iLabs reservation and kiosk system
2. Add you to our directory of users in approved labs
3. Retire any of old affiliations you may have with previous labs they might have been a part of
4. We will give you a copy of our SOP (checklist) so that they sign it and say they’ve been trained with these procedures, understand them, and agree to follow them

The AIM center is supported by NIH grant P20GM121176

All publications that include data produced in the AIM Core MUST be

1. BOTH linked to NIH grant P20GM121176 

2. AND cited within the body in the paper

3. Click here for instructions

All posters and platform presentations MUST cite NIH grant P20GM121176

• The AIM center is supported by NIH grant P20GM121176 from NIGMS (general)This work was supported by NIH grant P20GM121176 (mPIs, pilots)
• This work was supported by AIM center cores funded by NIH grant P20GM121176 (non-paying associate members acknowledging core usage)
• X.Y. was supported by NIH grant P20GM121176 (EC members, mentors acknowledging AIM salary support)
• If you wish to acknowledge AIM affiliation in papers (and other means of communication including internet) please add to your affiliation line: "Autophagy Inflammation and Metabolism Center of Biomedical Research Excellence...."

Leadership                                                                                                                                                         

Location and hours of operation

Important links for the AIM Core:

AIM Center Mouse Strains Inventory (4/5/2021)

Reagent, Antibody and Chemical Inventory (08/17/2021))

AIM Core current SOP (Standard Operating Procedures)

Watch this short video for an instrumentation overview

AIM Core current SOP (Standard Operating Procedures)

Social Media / Online Presence

School of Medicine Youtube Channel

Linked In: www.linkedin.com/in/aimcoreunm

Twitter @AIM_autophagy

Click on the links below for our newsletters:

2020 AIM Core Newsletters

2021 AIM Core Newsletters

Human Metabolome

https://en.humanmetabolome.com/ 

Mark Zbinden: mark.zbinden@humanmetabolome.com