Molecular Genetics Laboratory

Our state-of-the-art facilities provide infrastructure for a wide range of research in molecular population genetics and evolutionary ecology. The laboratories are used by our research staff, students as well as by visiting scholars.

For Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) we work with our sequencing center in Berne or outsource our prepared DNA libraries to commercial sequencing centers. We are associated with the ETH Genetic Diversity Center where we do some additional applications, such as pyro-sequencing.

Below is a list of the main instruments available at the CEEB lab:

List of Applications

• Library preparation for Next (New) Generation Sequencing

    We do library preparation for Illumina sequencing platforms (e.g HighSeq 2000)  

    for our RADtaq sequencing projects using 100 customer made P1 adapters, one

    pair of P2 adapters and a pair of final library amplification primer.

• DNA/RNA extractions

• DNA/RNA quantification

• PCR amplification

• Gel Electrophoresis and Documentation Laboratory

• Sequencing and Fragment Analysis

• Gene expression analysis

• Data Analysis