About Us

Mission Statement

The DNA Sequencing Facility is a non-profit serving The University of Texas at Austin research community.  Our services and instruments are as comprehensive and accessible as possible to increase faculty, staff, and student research productivity. 

Objectives

Under the direction of Dr. Mike Wilson, the Director of the Genomic Sequencing and Analysis Core, the current objectives of the DSF are outreach and education.  As opposed to being an anonymous service, we aim to engage and build relationships with faculty, staff, and students who can benefit from our expertise.  We seek to achieve this by providing superior customer service, specific to each client, as follows:

• Find new ways to assist our highly-experienced mega-users, while sustaining high-throughput and fast-turnaround
• Improve technical resources for researchers needing quick and reliable Sanger results
  
• Offer personalized assistance for customers sequencing difficult templates
• Offer custom services for UT researchers with unique needs, such as DNA purification, SNP analysis, and/or genotyping
  

Facility Affiliation

The DSF is no longer affiliated with the Institute for Cellular and Molecular Biology (ICMB).  Our new hierarchy:

• DNA Sequencing Facility
• Genomic Sequencing and Analysis Core
• Center for Biomedical Research Support
• College of Natural Sciences
• The University of Texas at Austin
  

Contact Information

512-475-7844
dsfcore@austin.utexas.edu

Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm

For after hours proximity card access, please contact Ryan Doonan at doonan@utexas.edu. Access is permitted for required after hours use of facility instruments.

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