Subsidy for Big Red Spots
The CVG is pleased to provide a 50% subsidy for member use of the Cornell Microarray Facility.
Each member will receive up to $2000 in matching funds until funds are exhausted. This subsidy will extend to all services
provided by the Core EXCEPT for subscription to the GeneTraffic program. This subsidy may be applied to activity in the
current fiscal year.
A fundamental component of the CVG's mission is to enable Cornell faculty to perform genome-wide studies and
the goal of the subsidy is to enable members to obtain preliminary data that can be used in grant applications.
Microarray Core Facility Pricing
Instructions to receive your microarray reimbursement:
- When you use the microarry, please charge the services to your own accounts.
- Forward a copy of your microarray invoice to Charlotte Williams, cw25@cornell.edu, who will then reimburse your account 50% of the qualifying invoice charges, up to the $2000 limit for the fiscal year.
Mouse Stocks
Clicking on the link below will download an Excel file with a list of potentially useful mouse strains currently
maintained in the colonies of Cornell researchers. Most of these are transgenics expressing
the Cre recombinase under various promoters. If you have any stocks you wouldn't mind sharing with the members
of the Cornell community, please contact Robert Weiss,
rsw26@cornell.edu, and the file will be updated.
Listing of Cornell Mouse Strains
Behavioral Phenotyping Core
The CVG administers a shared equipment core for the analysis of mouse
behavior, particularly the behavioral phenotyping of genetically altered
strains. This equipment is available for use by arrangement within its
temporary facility in Corson-Mudd Hall or can be transported to users’
laboratories. Current equipment includes an 8-arm radial maze / T-maze,
shuttle cage with automatic door and rotating-scan shock floor, infrared
motion detectors, audio and visual stimulus modules, triple-lumen
tastant delivery, general-purpose nose-poke operands (the mouse analogue
of lever-pressing for operant tasks), an accelerating rotarod, and
infrared video equipment. Flexible configurations of these components
enable a broad spectrum of standard and novel behavioral tests to be
performed. Please see the Overview document for further information.
Efforts are underway to grow this core into a permanently-housed, state
of the art facility for behavioral phenotyping. Please contact Thomas
Cleland,
tac29@cornell.edu, to arrange for use of the equipment, ask any
pertinent questions, express interest for potential future use, or
register an opinion on upcoming equipment purchases.
Overview
of the CVG Behavioral Phenotyping Core (PDF)
