We offer services and resources to microbiome researchers from across campus and beyond. Please use our MiCores website when you are ready to submit samples.
CURRENT PROCESSING TIME: approximately 3 WEEKS from date of sample delivery.
Microbiome Core Holiday Schedule:
We will be closed November 25th and 26th for Thanksgiving
Also, we will be closed during seasonal days of December 27th to 31st, and reopen Monday, January 3rd, 2022.
Our services include:
Bacterial RNA-seq
High Throughput Extraction of Nucleic Acids
Microbial Community Profiling - (16S, ITS, and EMP 16S)
Microbial Whole Genome Sequencing
Strain Collection Database
The Microbiome Core is housed in the Medical Science Research Building I (MSRB-I). We provide services for the National Mouse Metabolic Phenotyping Centers (MMPC) and are allied with the UM Center for Gastrointestinal Research (UMCGR).
Please contact us if you have any questions, need a quote, or to discuss a project.
Meet the team:
Tom Schmidt, Ph.D.- Microbiome Core Director
Karrie Black, M.B.A. - Financial Administrator
Christina Cartaciano, M.S. - Senior Project Manager
Ruqaiya Siddiqui, M.S. - Microbiome Core Lab Specialist
Scientific Advisory Board Members: Drs. Robert Dickson, Jonathan Golob and Eric Martens
Acknowledgements in Recent Publications