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The Mason Gross Documentary Film Lab partners with scientists, artists, researchers, and community leaders within the university and around the world to create dynamic nonfiction films that reach a large audience. Uniquely creative and intentionally interdisciplinary, the lab team produces professional broadcast-ready documentaries while involving students at every level of production.

The Materials Science Department occupies over 60,000 square feet of research laboratories including multiple capabilities available for users on a fee-for-service basis.

The Metabolic Phenotyping Core Facility provides investigators with services to comprehensively assess metabolism in rodents. This is particularly relevant if one is interested in understanding the role of genes or drugs in controlling metabolism. Given the huge cost of the obesity and diabetes epidemic, this has potential relevance to many investigators at Rutgers that do not work on metabolism, but may have stumbled upon a metabolic phenotype that may potentially have relevance for obesity and diabetes.

The facility provides advice on experimental design and metabolic phenotyping capabilities such as Indirect calorimetry, body composition, metabolic turnover studies and hyperinsulinemic euglycemic clamp analysis in live animals, that includes data analysis and interpretation. 

This shared resource pushes the frontiers of tumor metabolism measurements and provides Rutgers Cancer Institute members with easy, cost-effective access to these capabilities. The overarching objective is to enable scientific discoveries that significantly impact cancer diagnosis and therapy.

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The microbiome analysis lab offers genome characterization of complex samples to allow organism identification.

The Molecular and Genomics Informatics Core is designed to provide bioinformatics research services to members of the Rutgers community as a whole and industry collaborators.

The mission of the Molecular and Genomics Informatics Core is to support cutting edge researchers by providing expertise in high-throughput computational analyses. This is to be provided by utilizing up-to-date pipelines for expediting standard workflows, and implementing custom bioinformatics analyses to accommodate the myriad of solutions for academic research. MaGIC will also emphasizes training opportunities by providing remote bioinformatics learning tools, project support and assistance on request, and regular courses.

Services Provided

Whole Genome Sequencing analysis: Variant analysis; De novo assembly
Transcriptome sequencing analysis: Differential gene expression; Pathway analysis
Single cell transcriptome sequencing analysis: Base single cell analysis; Hash-tagged single cell analysis; CITE-seq single cell analysis
Epigenetic sequencing analysis: ChIP-Seq differential peak analysis; ATAC-seq differential peak analysis
Amplicon Sequencing Analysis: Unique amplicon quantification; 16s Metagenomics sequencing analysis; VDJ sequencing diversity analysis
Custom services to include: Hourly consultations; Tool/pipeline development; Web interface development
Anticipated Future Services: Integration of metabolomic and proteomic data analysis; Statistical support for large data set analyses