Robot Noah
R. Noah is our robot – an automatic liquid handler from Tecan. It can run both DNA/RNA extraction protocols, as well as virtually any library construction protocol. Over the years did a few hundreds of whole-genome sequencing libraries, and several thousands of RAD-seq libraries.
The current lab record is the 1000 RAD-seq samples that Felix did for the Pogonomyrmex barbatus regulation of foraging project with Deborah Gordon.
The previous record was the 800 RAD-seq samples that Aparna did for the Cataglyphis niger social chromosome project, and before that – the 300 whole genome samples that Shani did for the cuticular hydrocarbon GWAS project.
Aparna multitasking