For general inquiries, please contact us at ggbc@uga.edu or 706-542-6409.
Contact Us
Consultations
New projects or support for grant proposals
For a free consultation, contact Magdy Alabady: malabady@uga.edu.
Quotes and Financial Inquiries
- Quotes can be quickly obtained by using the “Quick Quote” tool.
- Contact Elizabeth Ashworth or Kim Kelley at ggbc@uga.edu for formal quote requests.
- Financial questions should be directed to Myriam Belanger at belanger@uga.edu or Kim Kelley at klkelley@uga.edu.
Sequencing Technical Inquiries
If you have any technical inquiries related to sample preparation, required concentrations, shipping information, status of your project, or any similar matters, please contact the designated team members below.
Illumina Platforms and Ready-to-run Projects
- Julia Portocarrero: jportocarrero@uga.edu
- Kateryna Stoianova: kstoianova.@uga.edu
PacBio Sequel and SMART Libraries
- Tyler Simmonds: tsim0604@uga.edu
RNA- and sRNA-seq libraries
- Casey Morrow: cbmorrow@uga.edu
- Tyler Simmonds: tsim0604@uga.edu
Microbiome, Amplicon, GBS, Illumina DNA-Seq, and Covaris
- Kateryna Stoianova: kstoianova.@uga.edu
Quality-check Services including Bioanalyzer, Fragment Analyzer, NanoDrop, SYBR-green
- Kateryna Stoianova: kstoianova.@uga.edu
- Casey Morrow: cbmorrow@uga.edu
- Julia Portocarrero: jportocarrero@uga.edu
- Tyler Simmonds: tsim0604@uga.edu
Sanger Sequencing and Genotyping Plates
- Julia Portocarrero: jportocarrero@uga.edu.
- Casey Morrow: cbmorrow@uga.edu
Bioinformatics Inquiries
We provide a wide range of bioinformatics analysis services. Please contact the following members to discuss your bioinformatics project.
New project/analysis inquiry and PacBio data analysis
- Magdy Alabady: malabady@uga.edu.
Transcriptome Assembly, RNA-Seq and Small RNA analyses, Bacterial genome assembly:
- Walt Lorenz: wlorenz@uga.edu.
Data demultiplexing and Microbiome analysis
- Zengyan Wang: zhyw86@uga.edu
- Kateryna Stoianova: kstoianova.@uga.edu
Single Cell Analysis
- Mengrui Zhang: Mengrui.Zhang@uga.edu
New Customers
To become a new customer and request access to our system, please go to the Order section of the GGBC website and click on New Customers. This will allow you to register to be added to our system. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Kim Kelley, klkelley@uga.edu, or Elizabeth Ashworth, eashwort@uga.edu.
Internships
To inquire and/or apply for a GGBC internship, contact Myriam Belanger: belanger@uga.edu.