Editing BioMicroCenter:News2014 (section)

=== MARCH 2014 ===
A couple highlights of things going on in the center.
* We are resuming the [[BioMicroCenter:Technology_Seminar_Series|Technology Seminar Series]] this week with Roche speaking on Wednesday at lunch. The talk will focus on non-standard applications of the Light Cycler (SNP detection, etc).
* The Fraenkel lab has very kindly donated their [[BioMicroCenter:Covaris|Covaris sonicator]] to the core and we will be putting it under a service contract. We will need to put in place a small fee to cover the cost of the contract - likely starting in July. Training for new users will be available through [[BioMicroCetner:People|Shmulik]].
* We’ve generally had positive feedback about our new AA/BioA form and we’re expanding the new excel forms to include Illumina sequencing. [[BioMicroCenter:Forms|This new form will cover most types of sample preparation.]]
* Illumina is raising the prices on all of their sequencing reagents starting April 1. We lowered our prices very aggressively last year so, in order to break even, [[BioMicroCenter:Pricing#SEQUENCING|we will have adjust our prices slightly higher.]]