BioMicroCenter:Consulting
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The MIT BioMicro Center encourages researchers to reach out before a project begins. A short conversation at the planning stage can make a significant difference — helping to match the right experimental approach to your scientific question, avoid common design pitfalls, and ensure that data will be interpretable when results come in.
Staff are experienced collaborators. Whether you have a fully formed experimental plan or an early-stage idea, we are happy to think through the problem with you. Consultations are free and we work with researchers at every career stage, from first-year graduate students designing their first sequencing experiment to faculty launching new research directions.
Common topics for pre-project consultation include experimental design and controls, choice of sequencing assay, sample and replicate requirements, expected data volumes and compute needs, and data management planning. For projects that will involve bioinformatics support, early consultation with the analysis team helps ensure the computational work is scoped correctly from the start.
If you are unsure who to contact, start with Stuart — his contact information is below.
WHO TO CONTACT
Different staff members have primary responsibility for different areas. Reach out directly to the person whose expertise best matches your question.
General and All Areas
Stuart Levine, PhD — Director
- Email: slevine@mit.edu
- Phone: 617-452-2949
- Calendar: Book time with Stuart
Stuart is the director of the BioMicro Center and has been leading genomics and bioinformatics core operations at MIT since 2008. He is the appropriate first contact for questions spanning experimental design, informatics, genomics, and data management, or when you are unsure where to start.
Informatics
Charlie Whittaker, PhD — Facility Scientific Director
- Email: charliew@mit.edu
Charlie leads the informatics group and is the right contact for questions about bioinformatics project planning, analysis methods, and computational approaches. The informatics team has active experience across transcriptomics, regulatory genomics, variant analysis, metagenomics, and machine learning applications.
Genomics
Johan Gibcus, PhD — Program Manager
- Email: gibcus@mit.edu
- Phone: x54533
Johan manages genomics operations and is the appropriate contact for questions about sequencing assays, library preparation strategies, and experimental design for genomics experiments.
Data Management
Charlie Demurjian — Lead Data Specialist
- Email: cdemu@mit.edu
- Phone: x44945
Charlie leads data management efforts and is the right contact for questions about data organization, repository submission, FAIR compliance, and archiving.