
COR²E Facility Open House & Vendor Show
Monday, October 2, 2023, 11am to 1pm
Microbial Analysis, Resources, and Services (MARS)
Contacts
General Contact
mars@uconn.edu
860.486.1417
Staff

Kendra Maas, Ph.D.
Facility Director
- kendra.maas@uconn.edu
- 860.486.6264

Johanna Cathell
Research Assistant
- johanna.cathell@uconn.edu
- 860.486.1417
Faculty Scientific Advisers

Joerg Graf, Ph.D.
Professor
- Biology Physics Building 409
- joerg.graf@uconn.edu
- 860.486.9284

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
Storrs Campus
Mailing Address
Microbial Analysis, Resources and Services (MARS)
UConn CORE
181 Auditorium Rd ESB 309 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
