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Microbial Analysis, Resources, and Services (MARS)
Contacts
General Contact
mars@uconn.edu
860.486.1417
Staff
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Faculty Scientific Advisers
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Jonathan Klassen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
- Torrey Life Sciences 279
- jonathan.klassen@uconn.edu
- 860.486.6890
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Kumar Venkitanarayanan, Ph.D.
Professor
- George White Building 114
- kumar.venkitanarayanan@uconn.edu
- 860.486.0947
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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
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MiSeq
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EpMotion 5075
- Liquid handing robot with vacuum and thermometer capabilities
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QIAgility
- Liquid handing robot
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QIAxcel
- For analyzing nucleic acid fragments
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Biomicrolab XL200 Tube Sorting Robot
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Synergy HT Microplate Reader
- Plate Flurometer
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Qubit Microtube Reader
- Tube fluorometer
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Odyssey Imaging System
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Covaris M220 Ultra-Sonicator
- Can be used by trained individuals independently or by staff for library preparation for the Illumina MiSeq.
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384 Well Thermocycler
Services & Rates
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Small Genome Sequencing
- Isolate sample to data
- Isolate DNA to data
- Client supplied library to data
- Draft genome assembly
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Microbiome and Amplicon Seqeuncing (16S v4, ITS2, etc)
- Sample to data
- DNA to data
- 2 step PCR to data
- DNA extraction
- Data analysis
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Training
- For Instrument Access
- Workshops and Modules
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