Acknowledgements

Acknowledgements

Why are Acknowledgements Important?

Acknowledgements are vital to ensuring the continued success of the Shared Instruments Pool. They serve as an essential metric for demonstrating the significant impact of the Shared Instruments Pool on numerous research projects at CU Boulder and in the surrounding areas. These acknowledgements play a crucial role in securing funding from external organisations such as the NIH or NSF, as well as through internal funding opportunities at CU, like the Core Facility Assistance Grant Program offered by RIO.

Acknowledgements also serve to recognise the organisations that have made the Shared Instruments Pool possible, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Please acknowledge specific grants for instruments you might have used. You can find example text including grant numbers for instruments below.

Moreover, acknowledgements underscore the intellectual and experimental contributions made by the staff of the Shared Instruments Pool to a research project. If facility staff have provided substantial assistance, please consider acknowledging them by name. If they contributed significantly to the intellectual aspects or conducted important experiments, co-authorship may also be appropriate.

The Association for Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) has issued “Recommended Guidelines for Authorship on Manuscripts,” which form the basis for the guidelines outlined below. If you are interested in learning more, you can find the guidelines and additional resources from the ABRF here: .

Examples for Acknowledgments for Instruments Acquired Through Specific Grants

Please include SIP's RRID number (RRID: SCR_018986) in your acknowledgements. This allows funding organisations and potential grant reviewers to easily locate publications supported by SIP, helping to evaluate the impact of SIP on our research community.

  • We thank the Shared Instruments Pool (RRID: SCR_018986) of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder for providing access to the MST instrument, which is funded by the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant S10OD021603.
  • We thank the Shared Instruments Pool (RRID: SCR_018986) of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder for access to the CD spectrometer, funded by the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant S10RR028036.
  • We thank the Shared Instruments Pool (RRID: SCR_018986) of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder for the use of the ITC 200, funded by the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant S10RR026516.
  • We acknowledge the Shared Instruments Pool (RRID: SCR_018986) of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder for providing access to the Avanti JXN 26 Super Speed Centrifuges and rotors, which are funded by NIH Grant R24OD033699-01.
  • Gels and membranes were imaged with the Typhoon 5 imager in the Shared Instruments Pool (RRID: SCR_018986) of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder. The Typhoon 5 was funded by the NIH Shared Instrumentation Grant S10OD034218-01.
  • Membranes were imaged using the Amersham ImageQuant 800 CCD imager located within the Shared Instruments Pool (SIP) core facility (RRID: SCR_018986), Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder. The ImageQuant 800 imager was funded by NIH Grant R35GM136392-04S1.

Examples for Formal Acknowledgments

Please include SIP's RRID number (RRID: SCR_018986) in your acknowledgements. This allows funding organisations and potential grant reviewers to easily locate publications supported by SIP, helping to evaluate the impact of SIP on our research community.

  • We thank the Shared Instruments Pool (SIP) core facility (RRID: SCR_018986), Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, for the use of the Misonix Sonicator 4000 for cell lysis and the Abbe Mark II Refractometer."
  • We thank the Shared Instruments Pool (SIP) core facility (RRID: SCR_018986), Department of Biochemistry, University of Colorado Boulder, for providing access to the shared research instrumentation infrastructure, particularly the Avanti JXN 26 Centrifuges (NIH, R24OD033699) and the Emulsiflex C3 Homogenizer. We  thank the SIP staff for their assistance and support.
  • EPR experiments were conducted in the Shared Instruments Pool (RRID: SCR_018986) in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder. We thank [Name and title of the facility member providing significant help] for assistance with data acquisition. 
  • We are grateful to the Shared Instruments Pool (RRID: SCR_018986) of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder for the use of its Chirascan Plus CD spectrometer (NIH, S10RR028036) , and to [Name and title of the facility member providing significant help] for their assistance with experiments and data evaluation.