Core provides advanced technologies and expert support to study cellular and whole-organism metabolism. The core offers instrumentation for measuring mitochondrial function, metabolic flux, energy expenditure, and metabolite profiling, along with consultation, training, and data acquisition services.

Core is a fee-for-use COBRE core that houses multi-photon microscopes and light microscopes that allow high-resolution visualization of cell and tissue structure (mitochondrial networks, collagen structure), metabolic function (optical redox and NADH fluorescence lifetime measurements), and biomolecular composition (autofluorescent metabolic cofactors, lipid deposition).