Common Use Equipment Room
The Genomics Core maintains some select equipment available for public use in room S-10 Plant Biology:
- Invitrogen Qubit fluorometer for DNA/RNA quantitation
- In-person training is not available. Protocols for the Biotium Quantification kits are posted in the Common USe Equipment Room or can be dowloaded by clicking the links below:
- Covaris M220 sonicator for DNA fragmentation
- In-person training is not available. Researchers should download and read the manual for the Covaris M220 Sonicator.
Equipment Calendar Instructions
The Genomics Core uses a Google Calendar to schedule the use of common use equipment. The Common Use Equipment Room availability can be viewed on the calendar below or by visiting the Common Use Equipment Google calendar.
The Common Use Equipment Room is available Monday through Friday between the hours of 8 AM and 5 PM, except during University holidays and Genomics Core closures.
Please email gtsf@msu.edu to request the use of equipment. Requests should be made at least 12 hours in advance. In your email, include the following:
- Date, start, and end time of appointment
- Appointments must not exceed 3 hours
- Equipment that you will use
- Any items or reagents that will be needed
- For Covaris usage, indicate if any tubes will need to be purchased
- Available tubes and pricing can be found on our pricing webpage
- For Qubit Quantification usage, Biotium kits are available. Indicate the assay kit
that you will use. Available kits include DNA Broad Range (2 - 1000 ng), DNA High
Sensitivity (0.1 - 100 ng), and RNA Broad Range (5 - 1000 ng).
- Each batch of assays will include two standard measurements. The two standards should be added to the number of samples you will assay.
- Pricing for Quantifications assays can be found on our pricing webpage
- For Covaris usage, indicate if any tubes will need to be purchased
- The number of samples to be processed