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Welcome to the University of Kansas Genomics Facility!




The KU Genomics Facility is committed to providing state-of-the-art genomics technology to the KU life science community, promoting adoption of systems biology approach to biomedical research, and building a strong coalition on campus-wide bioinformatics research. Mission Statement

Announcements

Kansas Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (KIDDRC) has been awarded $7 million grant from the NIH. KIDDRC provides strong support to this Facility. (October 2011)

+ KU Alzheimer's Disease Center (ADC) receives $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This Facility provides support for the Mitochondrial Genomics and Metabolism (MGM) core of the KU ADC. (August 2011)

+ Celebrate Human Genome's 10th Anniversary!

This February (2011) is the 10th anniversary of the draft human genome sequence published in 2001. Both Science and Nature have their special series on this momentous achievement. Check out these special series (Science and Nature) to see what we have accomplished in the last 10 years, and ponder for new discoveries to be made in the next 10 years. Don't forget to download that special Nature Human Genome at Ten iPad App!

+ Summer '09 - Functional Genomics & Bioinformatics Workshop

Thursday, August 13, 2009, 9:30am - 3:30pm, 152 Smissman, KU West Campus

This workshop is for investigators, graduate students and postdoc researchers in life sciences. It will cover genomics technology basics and recent developments, and major aspects of genomics data analysis. Topics on data analysis are also applicable to other high-throughput technologies, such as proteomics. No prior experience on genomics is required.

Registration required (no registration fee). Seats limited to 25 participants. Please register by August 7, 2009 via email to KUgenomics@ku.edu.

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The KU Genomics Facility is located in the Smissman Laboratories building on the KU west campus in Lawrence, Kansas.

Please feel free to visit us.

Tools

Technologies Provided by the Facility


GeneChip System

Sample Prep

- Affymetrix GeneChip-based microarray gene expression profiling, for broad applications such as pharmacogenomics and toxicogenomics

- SNP (single nucleotide polymorphisms) based whole-genome association studies

- Real-time quantititative PCR for nucleic acid sequence detection and quantitation

- High-throughput genomics data generation, curation, biological knowledge extraction

- Integration with high-throughput proteomics data through bioinformatics algorithms