Research support

Research support

  • Advice and technical support for Genomics research projects
  • High throughput Illumina short-read
    sequencing and Nanopore long-read sequencing
  • Single-cell and spatial genomics
  • Open access equipment for genomics
    research

The portfolio of services can be found below
Portfolio of services

Services

Services

  • NGS Library preparation
  • NGS Illumina Sequencing on Miseq and
    Nextseq2000
  • Nanopore long read sequencing on P2 solo and MinION
  • Single-cell genomics using 10X Chromium
    system
  • Spatial genomics using Visium CytAssist
    and Xenium technologies
  • Support for experimental design, grant
    writing, publication of genomic data, access to specialised equipment, data analysis via the LMS Bioinformatics team
  • GIPZ Lentiviral™ short hairpin RNA libraries for mouse and human genomes

Equipment

Equipment

  • Illumina MiSeq and NextSeq 2000
  • Nanopore MinION and P2solo
  • 10X Genomics Chromium
  • 10X Genomics Xenium
  • 10X Genomics Visium CytAssist
  • Agilent 5200 Fragment Analyzer
  • Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer
  • Agilent TapeStation
  • Nanodrop 2000
  • Qubit
  • Covaris S220
  • Mosquito HV nanolitre pipetting robot

Meet the team

This facility is available to LMS staff and students, and external researchers.
Please contact us for pricing, availability and support with experimental design.

Enquiries:

Selected publications

Simpson Ragdale H. et al. Injury primes mutation-bearing astrocytes to later life de-differentiation. Curr Biol. 2023 Mar 27;33(6):1082-1098

Ho Kwong Li et al. 2023 Characterisation of emergent toxigenic M1UKStreptococcus pyogenes and associated sublineages  Microb Genom. Apr;9(4):mgen000994

Page N. et al.  Single-cell profiling of Anopheles gambiae spermatogenesis defines the onset of meiotic silencing and premeiotic overexpression of the X chromosome.  Commun Biol. 2023 Aug 15;6(1):850

Ceire J.Wincott et al. (Matthew Child’s group) Cellular barcoding of protozoan pathogens reveals the within-host population dynamics of Toxoplasma gondii host colonization  Cell Reports Methods 2022 Volume 2, Issue8, 100274

Redhai S. et al. 2020 An intestinal zinc sensor regulates food intake and developmental growth. Nature. 580(7802):263-268. doi: 10.1038/s41586-020-2111-5.