Microbiome Core

We are working on making the Microbiome Core more visible to the greater research community and funding bodies. We ask clients to support our team by acknowledging our services in their publications with a sentence such as:

" DNA extraction, library prep, and next-generation sequencing were carried out by the University of Michigan's Microbiome Core (RRID SCR_02680)." 

We appreciate your help with this endeavour.

The Microbiome Core is happy to provide letters of support for grant applications. Please email [email protected] to request a letter. Please include your name and affiliation, the type of application you are submitting, the title of your proposal, the Core services you will be using, and a brief description of your project. 

• The user agrees to include/acknowledge the use of Microbiome Core services in any publications that result from this work. Please see the ‘Acknowledge Us’ section.
• DNA samples will be kept for 90 days (~3 months) after sequencing before Core staff will dispose of them.  If requested, the Core will return any purified DNA samples for the cost of shipping (where applicable).
• The user is responsible for downloading all data files provided by the Core. The sequence data will be maintained on Dropbox for 6 months after which it will be archived. There is a fee of $75 for retrieving and sending archived data.
• The user is in compliance with all institutional, state, and federal rules governing the performance of research involving human or animal samples.
• Requests for processing samples not specified at the time of the submission may require additional turnaround time and fees above initial estimates.