The Core Incentive Plan (CIP) is back for 2025!
CIP is an internal funding initiative administered by UConn OVPR that provides seed funding to faculty from UConn Storrs to be allocated for research projects that specifically engage UConn's world-class diverse core facilities.
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
