The UMGC will pause services at all of our locations (CCRB, NHH, Snyder, and 4Front) from Monday, May 16th to Friday, May 20th. UMGC staff will be tasked with re-organization and maintenance that were delayed during the pandemic, hence we will not be receiving or processing samples during this week

For close to two decades, the UMGC has provided on-campus Sanger sequencing services to the UMN research community. Though Sanger sequencing continues to have an essential place in life science research, we have decided that we will cease providing an on-campus service on or around July 1, 2022, as Sanger sequencing is now best served by outsourcing to a commercial provider. 

The UMGC is planning a “Spring Cleaning” week from May 16-20, during which the entire UMGC will be re-tasked with re-organization and maintenance. During this week, we will not be processing samples, except for time-sensitive clinical (CLIA) sequencing.

Congratulations to Dr. Daryl Gohl, PI for the UMGC Innovation Lab, and UMGC scientists, on their publication in G3: Genes|Genomes|Genetics, a peer-reviewed journal on high-quality foundational research. Their publication was selected for the cover image of the February 2022 issue.

The UMGC continues to partner with the Met Council to monitor COVID-19 by testing wastewater in the Twin Cities. Recent data shows the highest viral concentrations observed during the pandemic with omicron representing over 70% of the strains by Dec. 30.

Attend this webinar on November 16th to learn about HiFi sequencing updates, how to utilize HiFi sequencing for high resolution metagenomics, and how to build chromosome-scale references and recover complete metagenomes with a combination of long-reads and Hi-C.

Attend this webinar on November 9th to enter to win a NextSeq P3 200-cycle flow cell for your lab - that’s A BILLION READS of sequencing for FREE. See terms and conditions. In this webinar, learn how common and emerging high-throughput sequencing and multi-omic applications can utilize the flexible and scalable NextSeq 2000 system.

The Innovation Lab is a research group within the UMGC that focuses on the development of novel genomics research tools. Under the leadership of Dr. Daryl Gohl, the Innovation Lab has established an externally-funded research program, obtaining independent and collaborative grants from the NIH, CDC, and other agencies.

The University of Minnesota Genomics Center (UMGC) invites you to a webinar to hear Dr. Kenny Beckman, Director of the UMGC, present on new technologies and services, new rates, and organizational changes to the UMGC. We will encourage – and be happy to answer – questions from attendees.

Starting in October 2021, the UMGC will be delivering data for UMN users with MSI accounts to MSI's Shared User Resource Facility Storage (SURFS). Delivered data will be located in the "data_delivery" folder in your group's folder on MSI's primary filesystem (/home/GROUP/data_delivery/umgc).

We've partnered with PacBio to bring you this exciting opportunity to win a SMRT sequencing project with us. Tell us in 100 words or less how characterizing genetic variation in your favorite plant or animal species with HiFi sequencing will contribute to a healthier population and planet for a chance to win SMRTbell library preparation, up to 6 SMRT Cells 8M, sequencing on the Sequel IIe System, and bioinformatics support.

Throughout the country, scientists are studying a range of control methods to uproot invasive mussels, hoping that — like the threads that glue the mollusks down — something eventually sticks. Dr. Daryl Gohl, from the UMGC Innovation Lab, discusses working on RNA-interference screens for zebra mussel biocontrol.

The latest paper from the UMGC Innovation Lab is published in Nucleic Acid Research. The Innovation Lab expands on their previous work showing that primer editing by proofreading polymerases can rescue the dropout of taxa in marker gene-based microbiome profiling assays. They designed a set of synthetic standards where they systematically mutated every base in the last 10 nt of a commonly used 16S primer (V4_515F), and then characterized the primer editing activity of 8 different polymerases.