Nucleic Acid Extraction Core

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The Nucleic Acid Extraction Core provides investigators with fee-based services for extraction of nucleic acid from various tissue types utilizing both manual and automated extraction systems. It is open to all investigators at Children's Research Institute, the Medical College of Wisconsin and associated institutions.

Access is controlled, monitored and protected by sign-up sheets, card reader entry and individualized computer account sign-on. Sample drop off and pick up is coordinated with the Pediatric Translational Research Unit.

The core was created as a collaboration between and is supported by Children's Research Institute and the departments of Pediatrics (Genetics) and Pathology (Pediatric Pathology) at The Medical College.

Location
Children's Research Institute, fourth floor, Room C4210
Located next to the Histology and Imaging cores.

Mailing address
Nucleic Acid Extraction Core
Beth Virlee, Children's Research Institute
8701 Watertown Plank Road
Wauwatosa, WI 53226

Contact information
Technical coordinator
Beth Virlee, (414) 955-2523

Core hours
7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Thursday; 7:30 a.m. to noon Fridays
Samples can be dropped off between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. at the Pediatric Translational Research Unit. If you need to drop off samples before or after those times, make arrangements with the Pediatric TRU.

Co-directors

  • Ulrich Broeckel, MD, associate director, Children's Research Institute; professor, Pediatrics (Medicine and Physiology); technical director, advanced genomics (AGEN) clinical diagnostics lab, The Medical College.

  • Tara Sander, PhD, investigator, Children's Research Institute; associate professor, Pathology and Surgery (Pediatric), the Medical College; scientific director, Molecular Diagnostics, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

Collaborators

  • Alexandra Lerch-Gaggl, PhD, scientific director, Pediatric BioBank and Analytical Tissue Core, Children's Research Institute and The Medical College; assistant professor, Pathology (Pediatric Pathology), the Medical College.

  • Dennis Schauer, MT (ASCP) administrative/technical director, Children's Research Institute and the Medical College of Wisconsin.

  • Eric Jukkala, business manager.