News from the Biomolecular Research Facility
Cancer Center copayments
Cancer Center co-payments resumed in November 2007 for eligible grants. Contact the Cancer Center to apply to have a grant listed as eligible for a co-payment. They co-payments are automatically applied at the time of billing.
DNA Sciences
A next generation Illumina Genome Analyzer is in operation. This machine is for large sequencing projects, such a a genome or chromosome.
Contact Yongde Bao ph. 434-982-2553 email: yb8d@virginia.edu or Alyson Prorock ph. 434-243-9689 email: ajp7x@virginia.edu.
Mass Spectrometry
The mass spectrometry lab is using the GenoLogics LabLink LIMS to manage sample submission and data distribution. To login to submit samples or retrieve your data, go to:
http://128.143.19.247:8080/lablink/Login.do If you have not used LabLink before, see the page on starting with GenoLogics Lablink.
The high resolution Thermo Scientific LTQ Orbitrap mass spectrometer is in operation and will be upgraded later this year. The Thermo Scientific FT instrument will be kept in operation into 2010.
Dr. Jim Farmar, Assistant Director, and Rachel Reuther have joined the laboratory.
Enrichment of phosphopeptides has been used successfully for projects in the Cell Migration Consortium.
Shared Instrumentation
Because of the ending of Edman sequencing, peptide synthesis and amino acid analysis, the Protein Science core has been changed to the Shared Instrumentation Core, continuing chromatography services, user operated instruments (fluorescent plate reader, CD, dynamic light scattering instrument), fluorescent gel scanning and protein interactions service.
N-terminal Edman sequencing has been discontinued because of low use. Investigators needing N-terminal sequencing can find this service at other university core laboratories at the ABRF web site.
Peptide synthesis has ended in the Biomolecular Research Facility but there is a contract with Anaspec giving discount prices on peptides ordered through Molmart