The Duke Microbiome Core Facility provides expertise and technical assistance to support Microbiome researchers at Duke and beyond. We work closely with the Duke Microbiome Center and the Duke Sequencing and Genomics Technology Core to provide experimental support for microbiome analysis, including project management, high-throughput DNA extractions, microbial quantification by qPCR, amplicon library preps and data analysis.
If you are planning an experiment, have questions on services or just want to learn more about Microbiome analysis, please CONTACT US, we are here to help.
We provide consultation on the following:
- Experimental design
- For Germ-free mouse experimental design and services, contact the GnotoBioticCore@dm.duke.edu.
- Sample collection protocols
- Online submission request
- Pricing
- Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs)
- Support for clinical coordinators
- Pre- and Post- award grant support
- Manuscript preparation
Samples will be processed after a consultation. To schedule a consultation, email microbiomesr@duke.edu.
For all publications that include data generated in the Microbiome Core Facility, we kindly request that you acknowledge this support by including the following in your publication: "We thank the Duke University School of Medicine for the use of the Microbiome Core Facility, which provided _________ service."