The Microbiome Facility provides the following services:
- Biosample banking
- Automated DNA/RNA Extraction
- Amplicon-sequencing (16S, ITS) (Miseq, 2X300 cycles run)
- Shotgun Metagenomics (Nextseq, 2X150 cycles; Novaseq, 2X250 cycles)
- Microbiome analysis from the animal models
- Bioinformatics support
- Droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) for ultrasensitive quantification of the total bacterial load and the target species
- Multiplexed immunohistochemistry (mIHC) to evaluate intra-tumoral microbiome and immune contexture from FFPE tumor samples
Fecal Microbiota Transplant Lab
Bio-banking and Genomics Lab
