
Microbial Analysis, Resources, and Services (MARS)
Contacts
General Contact
mars@uconn.edu
860.486.1417
Staff


Faculty Scientific Advisers


Jonathan Klassen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Torrey Life Sciences 279
- jonathan.klassen@uconn.edu
- 860.486.6890

Kumar Venkitanarayanan, Ph.D.
Professor
- George White Building 114
- kumar.venkitanarayanan@uconn.edu
- 860.486.0947

Nichole Broderick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Biology Physics Building
- nichole.broderick@uconn.edu
- 860.486.4254
Location
Campus Address
Engineering and Science Building, Room 309
Mailing Address
ESB Bldg, Room 309
181 Auditorium Rd, Unit 3032
Storrs, CT 06269-3032
Instrumentation

MiSeq


EpMotion 5075
- Liquid handing robot with vacuum and thermometer capabilities

QIAgility
- Liquid handing robot

QIAxcel
- For analyzing nucleic acid fragments

Biomicrolab XL200 Tube Sorting Robot

Synergy HT Microplate Reader
- Plate Flurometer

Qubit Microtube Reader
- Tube fluorometer

Odyssey Imaging System

Covaris M220 Ultra-Sonicator
- Can be used by trained individuals independently or by staff for library preparation for the Illumina MiSeq.

384 Well Thermocycler
Services & Rates

Small Genome Sequencing
- Isolate sample to data
- Isolate DNA to data
- Client supplied library to data
- Draft genome assembly

Microbiome and Amplicon Seqeuncing (16S v4, ITS2, etc)
- Sample to data
- DNA to data
- 2 step PCR to data
- DNA extraction
- Data analysis

Training
- For Instrument Access
- Workshops and Modules
