The MCIC acquired the Bio-Rad QX200 Droplet Digital PCR system.
Digital PCR (dPCR) is quickly becoming the go-to complementary technology to the traditional real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR). Both, qPCR and dPCR provide sensitive and robust detection and quantitation of nucleic acids using fluorescence, and each one of these methods has distinct advantage. ......
Join us at this workshop from August 17-19, to learn command line basics for genomic analysis at OSC!
We now offer a low cost high throughput (HT) genomic DNA library preparation protocol ideal for lowpass whole genome sequencing for genotyping purposes, whole small genomes sequencing, scRNA-seq, metagome and microbial sequencing. The Seqwell plexWell technology protocol employs transposase fragmentation and barecode tagging of the genomic DNA and produces a balanced, normalized pool of libraries. ........
MCIC's Jelmer Poelstra will teach a computing course in the Spring semester of 2021, focused on the UNIX command line, bash and Python scripting, and reproducible science with version control and automated workflows.
OSU Code Club is a regularly occurring, interactive, online gathering to improve coding skills. We aim for a supportive and fun culture of learning together, and hope to offer something to participants at any experience level.
For more information and to sign up, please see the Code Club website.
The MCIC is pleased to welcome Dr. Jelmer Poelstra, who will lead the bioinformatics activities at the MCIC Computational Biology Laboratory (MCBL). Dr. Poelstra has a solid knowledge in bioinformatics and computational tools for genomic analyses, as he has been working with high throughput sequencing data for the past nine years. His disciplinary background is in population genetics. .......
We are welcoming Khwannarin Khemsom our new microscopy research associate. Khwannarin (Biu) Khemsom graduated from Kasetsart University in Thailand majoring in Biology, earned a Master’s degree in Biotechnology and then worked as research assistant at the Center of Emerging Bacterial Infections, at the Mahidol University in Thailand. During her employment she gained experience in microbiology, molecular biology and microscopy. She was also involved in mentoring and training incoming students.
Our new Hitachi Schottky field emission SU5000 scanning electron microscope provides high quality nano-scale images for research in biology and material sciences. The Schottky electron source and detectors give optimal imaging and analytical data, and the novel hex technology allows for high brightness imaging also at low accelerating voltage settings.
The MCIC was awarded a CGIAR Borlaug fellowship to host and provide training to Myriam Izzarra from the International Potato Center (CIP), in Lima Peru. The aim of her project was to characterize the genetic variation in P. infestans populations from different Peruvian regions/environments and potato hosts using high trhroughput sequencing methodologies.
