On March 28, VP for Research Shashank Priya and Associate VP for Research Kimberly Kirkpatrick visited the UMGC's new, centralized lab at 4Front Technology Campus in Oakdale. UMGC 4Front houses core operations and high-throughput workflows, once spread across four locations. With operations now centralized, the UMGC expects a boost in efficiency and productivity.

The UMN Genomics Center is excited to kick off its Spring 2024 Pilot Sequencing Program. To help UMN investigators generate preliminary data, the UMGC has partnered with Illumina to subsidize sequencing pilot projects, and also 10X Genomics to support single-cell pilot projects. Pilot projects can be for any NGS application on our website. The amount of sequencing is tiered based on the type of pilot project.

Join Oxford Nanopore on Thursday, March 21st, at the McNamara Alumni Center to hear from local experts who are breaking new ground in human genomics using nanopore technology.​​​ Aside from talks ranging from human genomics for rare diseases to sequencing for cancer research, this full-day agenda will include networking breaks, Q&A, product displays, and opportunities to engage with your peers and nanopore experts.

The UMGC is undergoing a physical and organizational transformation aiming to make us the best possible partner for help with wet-lab genomics. The goal of this town hall is to meet with our community of CFANS users, explain ongoing changes, and most critically, get feedback from researchers about how the UMGC can best tailor our offerings.

This content-filled, half-day event will include science and technology advisors from 10X Genomics presenting the latest single cell and spatial updates, as well as talks from Kenny Beckman, UMGC Director, and Grant Barthel, UIC Assistant Director. Samuel Peters from the Niedernhofer Lab will present on using single cell and spatial technologies to chart senescent cell biology.

Zebra mussels are a damaging invasive species that are spreading throughout the lakes and rivers of Minnesota and beyond. The UMGC Innovation Lab is building on previous work sequencing the zebra mussel genome and working to develop highly specific genetic biocontrol tools for zebra mussels.

Today, the UMN Genomics Center is excited to release lower FY 2024 rates for our services and to announce new options for faster turnaround time (TAT). Simply put, we are replacing one-size-fits-all “standard” rates with a range of options, referred to as “tiers”. Our overarching goal is to provide you with choice and control over the speed of your projects; you will decide for yourself how quickly your project should proceed.

During the week of Monday, November 27 - Friday, December 1, we will be moving and consolidating two lab spaces into a new, centralized lab at 4Front Technology Campus in Oakdale, MN. The UMGC Snyder Hall lab on the St. Paul campus will be relocating to 4Front. Snyder Hall will remain a sample drop-off site for the St. Paul campus.

The Melov lab is developing workflows for profiling biopsies of human skeletal muscle and ovary to identify signatures of senescent cells, a classical hallmark of aging. Method development includes defining a transcriptional signature of senescence ("senotype") in cell culture models of senescence, and then identifying that signature in specific cells in biopsied tissue.

Join us for our 11th Annual GenoFest on Friday, October 6, 2023! This informative open house is for the UMN research community to learn about emerging trends in genomics technologies, future plans for the UMGC, and available resources and services. This year will include UMGC and technology presentations, lab tours, and a resource fair.

The UMGC welcomes the arrival of the AVITI sequencing instrument from Element Biosciences! With outstanding data quality and compatibility with Illumina libraries, the AVITI will be of particular interest to single-cell and spatial researchers and researchers who require ultra-high quality reads. The AVITI service will officially launch in August/September.

This symposium aims to bring together U of M investigators interested in single-cell methods to discuss key approaches in data analysis and interpretation and the latest developments in single-cell technologies. It will feature in-depth presentations from U of M experts in immunology and the biology of aging, as well as an open panel discussion. This event is co-organized by the U of M Genomics Center and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute. 

MSI bioinformatics analysts have been working with U of M researchers to design and analyze experiments using the Nanostring GeoMx DSP. In this presentation, MSI will discuss important considerations and resources for experimental design. And also discuss details of GeoMx data analysis including a demonstration of how to use both the on-instrument software and R packages to analyze a complex melanoma data set from Dr. Alessio Giubellino.

The University of Minnesota Genomics Center (UMGC) and the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) invite you to join us for a day of presentations, tutorials, and project consultations in SMed on the Duluth campus. Meet with staff for project support and learn more about the genomic and informatic resources available to UMN researchers.

The UMN Genomics Center is excited to kick off its Spring 2023 Pilot Sequencing Program. To help UMN investigators generate preliminary data, the UMGC has partnered with Illumina to subsidize sequencing pilot projects, and also 10X Genomics to support single-cell pilot projects. Pilot projects can be for any NGS application on our website that uses 400 million reads of sequencing or less.