Genomic Core Facility

Skoltech Genomics Core Facility was established at Skoltech in March 2018. It contains high-throughput Illumina sequencers, equipment for nucleic acid extraction, library preparation and quality control (Illumina cBot 2, Biomek NXp Span-8, Covaris M220, Bioanalyzer 2100 etc.) and computational resources for data storage and analysis.

The main goal of the center is to coordinate and support genomic research programs carried out by Skoltech researchers, participants of the Skolkovo ecosystem as well as external customers. In 2019, the center became one of 18 infrastructure facilities selected by the Russian Science Foundation to carry out projects of 8 research groups.

Elena

Shagimardanova

Head of the Facility

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projects

Internal (Skoltech customers):

Development of technology for accelerated breeding of oil crops based on high-performance methods of genotyping and molecular phenotyping to ensure Russia’s food security (Ministry of Education and Science, PI Philipp Khaitovich)

Deciphering the Cause of Human Pregnancy Loss by Exome Analysis of Abortuses (Skoltech Biomedical Initiative, PI Georgii Bazykin, Dmitry Yarotsky)

Development of methods for identification of plant components in food products using next generation sequencing (Ministry of Education and Science, PI Maria Logacheva)

External (Non-Skoltech customers):

Whole-genome sequencing of 29 soybean samples (LTD “Agrogenetika”)

The study of chickpea transcriptome using high-throughput sequencing

The influence of a wide spectrum ouabain concentrations on gene expression profiles in human neurons

Exome analysis of patients with monogenic hereditary diseases

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