Instrumentation
The Functional Genomics Core offers cutting-edge tools tailored for high-throughput screens. To schedule equipment usage, please contact the core facility:
- Directly through ShRNAandORFeomeCoreFacility@mdanderson.org
- Co-director, Yutong Sun, Ph.D., at ysun2@mdanderson.org
Available Instruments
1. Automated workstation is located in a laminar flow hood, which can facilitate high throughput tissue culture.
2. Automated workstation is equipped with both span8 and MCA96 liquid handling arms, a vacuum and an orbital shaker, which allows automated liquid handling, plasmid purification and manipulation in a high throughput manner.
3. Synergy H4 plate reader (Biotek) is capable of performing absorbance, fluorescence and luminescence assays.
4. High content imaging systems, and , are able to take images in multiple well plates automatically, which are powerful tools for image-based screens.