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SHARED RESOURCES - MICROARRAY

Leader:

William Wachsman, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine

Email: wwachsman@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 552-8585 x2628

Co-Leaders:

Nick Webster, Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine

Director, VA Genechip Core Facility
Email: nwebster@ucsd.edu

Core Contact: Lutfunnessa Shireen, Manager
Email: genechip@vapop.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 552-8585 x7202 or x7100
Core Location: Stein Clinical Research Building, Room B066
Website: http://www.vmrf.org/research-websites/gcf/index.html

Gary Hardiman, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Director, BIOGEM Laboratory
Email: ghardiman@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 822-3792
Core Location: Leichtag Family Foundation Research Building, Room 172

Y-T Liu, Ph.D.
Assistant Project Scientist

Director, Biomarker Core Laboratory
Email: ytliu@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-9972
Core Location: Moores UCSD Cancer Center, Room 5314

Service Profile:

Gene Expression Profiling
  - VA GeneChip Core: Affymetrix GeneChips, NobleGen arrays, Invitrogen microRNA arrays
  - BIOGEM: Illumina BeadChips, GE Codelink arrays, Agilent arrays, ABI arrays, and custom spotted arrays

DNA Assays: SNP mapping arrays, GenFlex Tag arrays, resequencing arrays, and
genome tiling arrays

Promoter Arrays
  - VA GenomeChip Core: NimbleGen-based ChIP-on-Chip assays
  - BIOGEM: Spotted array ChIP-on-Chip assays
Slide array scanning services through Biomarker, BIOGEM, and VA GeneChip Cores
Ancillary Services: BIOGEM and VA GeneChip Cores offer Agilent Bioanalyzer and Nanodrop analyses; BIOGEM has a repository of cDNA and genomic libraries
Consultation for experimental design and assistance with project preparation
Training and Education (contact any of the Resource leaders to be placed on mailing list for announcements)

Equipment Profile:
BIOGEM - Illumina Sentrix array system; Agilent microarray system; GE Codelink system; ABI 1700 microarray analyzer, and Affymetrix GMS417 spotted arrayer; Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer; NanoDrop spectrophotometer; Qiagen BioRobot 3000 workstation; and Molecular Dynamics/Axon GenePix 400 scanner.

VA GeneChip Core - Affymetric GenChip ® System; Biomicro Maui hybridization station; Molecular Dynamics/Axon GenePix 4000B scanner; Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer; and NanoDrop spectrophotometer.

Biomarker Core - Molecular Dynamics/Axon 4000B GenePix scanner.

Overview of the Shared Resource:
High-density microarrays permit analysis of thousands of elements simultaneously. This Shared Resoruce provides access to a panoply of microarray services to enable investigators' research. These include expression profiling of specimens for mRNA or microRNA; ChIP-on-chip assays of promotor function; directed or global SNP determination; DNA resequencing assays; and microarray-based proteomic assays. The Facility has multiple platforms for microarray analyses and implements the latest array-based methods, so that investigators can perform their research at the cutting edge of the technolgoy in a cost-effective manner. The Facility leadership also provides consultation to Cancer Center members on the design of microarray experiments and assistance with project preparation requiring input on specific microarray tools and methods. The Resource provides training to investigators on microarray methods, tools, and analyses through courses, workshops, and seminars.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Department of Veterans Affairs and the San Diego Venterans Medical Research Foundation, without which this endeavor would not be possible.

San Diego VA Research and San Diego VMRF



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