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ALERT Welcome to Pitt’s iLab system, updated on 10 August 2024.
Pitt’s iLab is integrated into our single sign on system and our billing backends, preventing certain classes of errors.
Please review our new Shared Facilities webpage and the iLab training material available in the “Using Core Facilities” section.
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Established in 2016 as a Health Sciences Core in the School of Medicine, the HSSC is located in the Rangos Research Building at UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh in Lawrenceville. HSSC offers Illumina Next Generation Sequencing Services to the University of Pittsburgh community and beyond. Our staff have experience in RNA and DNA extraction, low-input and degraded sample library generation for RNAseq, ATACseq, ChIPseq and associated technologies. Our core has Illumina Miseq, Nextseq500 and Nextseq2000 machines, with access to higher throughput capacity at the UPMC Genome Center. We encourage consultations in advance for custom or off-label projects.
Director: Dr. Amanda C. Poholek, PhD
poholeka@pitt.edu
Assistant Director: Dr. William A. MacDonald, PhD
w.a.macdonald@pitt.edu
Senior Research Staff:
Rania Elbakri: rania.elbakri@chp.edu
Yvette Rhodes: ylr3@pitt.edu
Bryan Thompson: brt2@pitt.edu
Dr. Yvonne Eisele, PhD: eiseley@pitt.edu
| Hours | Location |
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Monday-Friday |
Rangos Research Center, 8145 530 45th St. Pittsburgh, PA, 15201 |
| Name | Role | Phone | Location | |
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| William MacDonald |
Associate Director
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wam30@pitt.edu
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Rangos Research Center, 8145 530 45th St. Pittsburgh, PA, 15201
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