NYU Langone’s Genotyping Core Laboratory offers technologies for researchers who use genetically complex modified animal models. Learn more about how to access our technologies using iLab, including login instructions.

Tissue Sample Preparation and Submission

Guidelines for preparing and submitting tissue samples:

• Tissue biopsies should be less than 5 mm in length.
• Place samples in capped 0.2-mL 8-strip polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tubes (no buffers).
• Clearly label each tube with a unique identification number on the side and your initials on the top.
• Samples must be bagged and dropped off in the Genotyping Core Laboratory drop off sites. Smilow 310, Undercounter Fridge and Science Building 1149, Cold Room
• Samples may also be shipped to our laboratory, at the investigator’s expense. Please contact us prior to sending samples to share tracking numbers.
• Primers are only provided for available protocols. Labs must order and deliver primers for new protocols.
• Tissue lysates are available for retrieval once genotyping is completed. Please advise us of this request as soon as you place an order. Unclaimed lysates are discarded after two weeks.

Submitting New Protocols

• Before entering a request for a new genotype, please email the new protocol(s) in a PDF to Lila.OsorioQuintero@NYULangone.org. Please review the example protocol prior to emailing us.
• DO NOT SEND SAMPLES until you receive an email confirmation advising that the protocol has been added to iLab.
• Once the protocol is approved, we will add the genotype to the dropdown menu and confirm it has been added via e-mail.
• For new protocols, the requestor must include the first set of primers along with their sample at drop-off. We can only provide primers for existing protocols. Please provide DNA controls for the work.
• Once the protocol is approved and has been added to the dropdown menu, you may submit your new service request.

Results

For external users, data images will be added to the request in iLab.

For users with email accounts ending in @nyulangone.org, photos are uploaded to users’ results folders on SharePoint. A link will be shared with you when your first set of results is ready. If you require access, please email Lila Osorio at Lila.OsorioQuintero@NYULangone.org.