All work performed in any of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences’ shared facilities should be acknowledged in scholarly reports, presentations, posters, papers, and all other publications. Proper acknowledgment provides a visible measure of the impact of the Huck Institutes’ shared facilities and is essential for our continued funding.
When to Acknowledge or Provide Co-Authorship
- Include an acknowledgement any time the X-Ray Crystallography Facility provides services that support your research.
- If a staff member has made a significant intellectual contribution beyond routine sample analysis, please consider co-authorship
Acknowledging The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences Core Facilities
- Mandatory Minimum - Independent use of Huck resources
- “The co-authors would like to acknowledge the Huck Institutes’ X Ray Crystallography Core Facility (RRID:SCR_024464) for use of the Wyatt SEC-MALS.”
- Example 1 - Independent use of Huck resources and guidance from staff
- “The co-authors would like to acknowledge the Huck Institutes’ X Ray Crystallography Core Facility (RRID:SCR_024464) for use of the Wyatt SEC-MALS and staff X for helpful discussions on sample preparation.”
- Example 2 - Routine data collected by Huck Facility personnel (data interpreted by the user)
- “The co-authors would like to acknowledge the Huck Institutes’ X Ray Crystallography Core Facility (RRID:SCR_024464) for use of the Wyatt SEC-MALS and staff X for collecting the data shown in Figure Y."
Please always notify the relevant Facility when acknowledgment is made.
If we did more than above – please consider authorship.
Instrumentation
NIH grant for Rigaku Micromax MM007 – Crystallography and BioSAXS ports
Research reported here is supported by the NIH grant S10 OD028589 for the X-ray instrumentation upgrade for single crystal diffraction and solution small angle scattering, to Dr. Neela Yennawar, X-ray Crystallography core facility, Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
NIH grant for Wyatt SEC-MALS system
Research reported here is supported by the NIH grant S10 OD030490 for the Wyatt SEC-MALS system to Dr. Neela Yennawar, X-ray Crystallography core facility, Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
NIH grant for Beckman Optima Multiwavelength Analytical Ultracentrifuge
Research reported here is supported by the NIH grant S10 OD032215-01 for the Optima AUC, to Dr. Neela Yennawar, X-ray Crystallography core facility, Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
NIH grant for the TA Affinity-ITC instrument
Research reported here is supported by the NIH grant S10 -OD025145 for the TA-Affinity ITC, to Dr. Neela Yennawar, X-ray Crystallography core facility, Penn State Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences.
NIH and NSF Grant Attribution
Language for how our facilities may be described in grant proposals to both the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation can be found here.