The major service activities of the Molecular Biology Core are to provide training and technical assistance with the use of shared equipment housed in the core and provide convenient access to molecular biological reagents. Training in the proper use of equipment is provided by the Laboratory Coordinator and also as needed by vendor technical personnel. The core maintains in-house freezers and supply cabinets stocked with many commonly used molecular biological reagents from Invitrogen. In-house reagents are ordered online from Invitrogen and picked up from stocks housed in the core. Invitrogen items not stocked in the core can be ordered online without shipping charges. In addition, the core facilitates ordering of reagents and supplies from the Molecular Cell Biology Resource Core at Vanderbilt University. Items are selected from the online core catalog and a Vanderbilt core ordering form listing the selected items is submitted to the Molecular Biology Core for processing.