Southern Laboratory (CSH-018)

Summary 🟡 ~

• Owner Unit: College of Science and Health
• Sub-unit: Chemistry and Biochemistry
• Content Type: center
• Campus/Location: Lincoln Park (McGowan South 321B office; 320 lab)
• Last Verified: May 30, 2026

Description & capabilities

Faculty biophysical chemistry research group using fluorescence spectroscopy and single-molecule Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) to study antibody structure and inflammatory caspase activity. Joint fluorogenic FRET-substrate development with Karver Laboratory (CSH-017).

Access status

• Level: yellow (Negotiated Access)
• Rationale: Southern Lab faculty profile documents McGowan South office and lab rooms; access through chemistry research affiliation.
• Access URL: www.depaul.edu/faculty/carey-southern
• Contact name: Carey Southern
• Verification date: 2026-05-30
• Source URLs:
• www.depaul.edu/faculty/carey-southern

Verification

• Status: likely (~)
• Confidence: 81/100
• Rationale: Faculty-profile-anchored Southern Lab with published location and fluorescence methods.
• Last verified: 2026-05-30
• Evidence:
• DePaul faculty profile McGowan South 321B/320 and FRET biophysical research

Equipment

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Category	Specific equipment
Spectrometers	Fluorescence spectroscopy; single-molecule FRET instrumentation (McGowan South 320)
Lab sample processing	Fluorogenic caspase-substrate spectroscopic characterization

Source: Southern DePaul faculty profile (May 2026). Last verified: July 29, 2026.

Contacts (resource-level)

• Website: Carey Southern — DePaul faculty profile

Last verified: May 30, 2026.

People & contacts

Named contacts from the people registry when publicly documented.

• Carey Southern (Faculty lead) — CSOUTHE2@depaul.edu · Profile

Source URL

Official links and email are listed under Contacts above.

Documented Relationships

Biophysical chemistry research group; joint caspase FRET assays with Karver Lab (CSH-017); uses shared McGowan instrumentation (CSH-001).

Linked Relationship IDs

• CSH-001 - Chemistry Core Instrumentation & Machine Shop
• CSH-003 - Environmental Science & Chemistry Building (McGowan)
• CSH-017 - Karver Laboratory

Documented connections

Generated from publication↔resource and person↔publication registries. Superscript numbers open Sources below. Multiple sources on one claim are grouped as ^1,4. Grant links are listed on publication and grant pages.

Publications

• Design and Application of a Fluorogenic Assay for Monitoring Inflammatory Caspase Activity (2018) — documented, produced by · DOI¹
• Förster Resonance Energy Transfer Investigations of the Structure of the Immunog (2013) — supporting, mentions · DOI²
• UV-Vis and Fluorescence Studies of Zinc Enzyme Active Site Mimics and Their Bind (2017) — supporting, mentions · DOI³

Related facilities

• Karver Laboratory — shared documented publication(s): PUB-013¹

People on linked publications

• Caitlin E. Karver (coauthor; PUB-013)¹
• Carey Southern (coauthor; PUB-013)¹

Sources

1. Southern faculty profile describes joint fluorogenic FRET-substrate development with Karver lab; McGowan South 320 lab on profile. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
2. gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source
3. gazetteer hit in OA full text. Archived source retained by Resource Map maintainers. View current source

Notes

Faculty-profile-anchored lab resource (May 2026).