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VAI - Genomics Core

Van Andel Institute

Contact Info:

Marie Adams

333 Bostwick Ave NE

Grand Rapids, MI 49503

https://genomicscore.vai.org

Grants and Identifiers:

RRID: RRID:SCR_022913

Instrumentation:

(Equipment No Longer Active At this Facility)

Illumina MiSeq System

Access focused applications such as targeted resequencing, metagenomics, small genome sequencing, targeted gene expression profiling, and more. MiSeq reagents enable up to 15 Gb of output with 25 million sequencing reads and 2 × 300 bp read lengths. [Product Link]

RRID:SCR_020134

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10X Genomics Chromium X

single cell nanofluidic instrument

10X Genomics CytAssist

Histology/Spatial Transcriptomics

10X Xenium

Spatial Imaging

(Equipment No Longer Active At this Facility)

Element Aviti

Sequencing Instrument

Element Aviti

Sequencing Instrument

Illumina iScan System

BeadArray/Microarray

Illumina MiSeq i100

Illumina NovaSeq 6000

Sequencer

Nanostring GeoMx DSP Spatial Profiler

Spatial Transcriptomics

Takara Shasta iCell-8

Services Provided:

10x Genomics

10x Genomics Visium

10x Genomics Xenium Spatial Transcriptomics

Bisulfite Conversion

ChIP-Seq

CITE-seq

Consultations

CUT&RUN

CUT&Tag

Digital PCR

FFPE Restore

Genomics

Methylation Analysis

Microarray

Nanopore Sequencing

NanoString GeoMx DSP

Reduced Representation Bisulfite Sequencing

Ribosomal Reduction

RNA Integrity

RNAseq

Sample Preparation

Sequencing - Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)

Single-cell Sequencing

Spatial Transcriptomics

Visium HD Spatial Transcriptomics

Whole Exome Sequencing

Whole Genome Sequencing

Relevant Publications:

1.) Finneran DJ, Jackman BM, Desjarlais T, Henry A, Soliman AS, Muskus PC, Shankar R, Chen B, Nash KR, Morgan D, Gordon MN (2025 Nov 5). Mature tau pathology is not improved by interfering with interleukin-1 receptor signaling in two mouse models of tauopathy PLOS One, 20(11), e0335409. . PMCID: 12588532.


2.) Chomiak AA, Wiseman AK, Hrit J, Liu Y, Stransky S, Sidoli S, Tiedemann RL, Rothbart SB (2025 Sep 18). Dual EZH1/2 inhibition enhances DNMT inhibitor efficacy in colon cancer through targeting H3K27me1 bioRxiv, (), 2025.09.16.676613. . PMCID: 12458120.


3.) Liu Y, Zhao Y, Liu M, Kim P, Liao J, Lu D, Liu H, Szabó PE, Yang T (2025 Sep 8). EHMT2 Controls Neural Crest-Derived Craniofacial Development but is Dispensable in Limb Development bioRxiv, (), 2025.09.07.674526. . PMCID: 12439983.


4.) Pérez-Mojica JE, Madaj ZB, Isaguirre C, Roy J, Lau KH, Sheldon RD, Lempradl A (2025 Aug 13). Resolving early embryonic metabolism in Drosophila through single-embryo metabolomics and transcriptomics Nature Metabolism, 7(10), 2165-2177. . PMCID: 12552126.


5.) Spix NJ, Habib WA, Zhang Z, Eugster E, Milliron HY, Sokol D, Lee K, Nolte PA, Endicott JL, Krzyzanowski KF, Hinoue T, Morrison J, Johnson BK, Zhou W, Shen H, Laird PW (2025 Jul 8). High-coverage allele-resolved single-cell DNA methylation profiling reveals cell lineage, X-inactivation state, and replication dynamics Nature Communications, 16(), 6273. . PMCID: 12234882.


6.) Jones P, Liu M, Urrutia G, Shereda R, Thomas S, Liang G (2025 Jul 1). Dnmt3a2 expression during embryonic development is required for phenotypic stability Research Square, (), rs.3.rs-6908216. . PMCID: 12236915.


7.) Dahabieh MS, DeCamp LM, Oswald BM, Kitchen-Goosen SM, Fu Z, Vos M, Compton SE, Longo J, Foy NM, Williams KS, Ellis AE, Johnson A, Sodiya I, Vincent M, Lee H, Yao C, Wu T, Sheldon RD, Krawczyk CM, Jones RG (2025 Jun 27). The prostacyclin receptor PTGIR is a NRF2-dependent regulator of CD8+ T cell exhaustion Nature Immunology, 26(7), 1139-1151. . PMCID: 12208871.


8.) Beddows I, Djirackor S, Omran DK, Jung E, Shih NN, Roy R, Hechmer A, Olshen A, Adelmant G, Tom A, Morrison J, Adams M, Rohrer DC, Schwartz LE, Pearce CL, Auman H, Marto JA, Drescher CW, Drapkin R, Shen H (2025 Mar 26). Impact of BRCA mutations, age, surgical indication, and hormone status on the molecular phenotype of the human Fallopian tube Nature Communications, 16(), 2981. . PMCID: 11947093.


9.) Xue Z, Xuan H, Lau K, Su Y, Wegener M, Li K, Turner L, Adams M, Shi X, Wen H (2025 Mar 14). Expression of ENL YEATS domain tumor mutations in nephrogenic or stromal lineage impairs kidney development Nature Communications, 16(), 2531. . PMCID: 11909213.


10.) Panzeri I, Fagnocchi L, Apostle S, Tompkins M, Wolfrum E, Madaj Z, Hostetter G, Liu Y, Schaefer K, Yang CH, Bergsma A, Drougard A, Dror E, Chandler DP, Schramek D, Triche TJ Jr, Pospisilik JA (2025 Jan 24). TRIM28-dependent developmental heterogeneity determines cancer susceptibility through distinct epigenetic states Nature Cancer, 6(2), 385-403. . PMCID: 11864977.


11.) Vatsa N, Brynildsen JK, Goralski TM, Kurgat K, Meyerdirk L, Breton L, DeWeerd D, Brasseur L, Turner L, Becker K, Gallik KL, Bassett DS, Henderson MX (2024 Oct 22). Network analysis of α-synuclein pathology progression reveals p21-activated kinases as regulators of vulnerability bioRxiv, (), 2024.10.22.619411. . PMCID: 11526907.


12.) Xue Z, Qin L, Xuan H, Luo K, Huang M, Xie L, Su Y, Xu L, Harsh J, Dale B, Shi X, Chen X, Kaniskan HÜ, Jin J, Wen H (2024 Aug 28). A potent and selective ENL degrader suppresses oncogenic gene expression and leukemia progression Science Advances, 10(35), eado1432. . PMCID: 11352836.


13.) Guak H, Weiland M, Ark AV, Zhai L, Lau K, Corrado M, Davidson P, Asiedu E, Mabvakure B, Compton S, DeCamp L, Scullion CA, Jones RG, Nowinski SM, Krawczyk CM (2024 Jul 24). Transcriptional programming mediated by the histone demethylase KDM5C regulates dendritic cell population heterogeneity and function Cell reports, 43(8), 114506. . PMCID: 11416765.


14.) Kochmanski J, Virani M, Kuhn NC, Boyd SL, Becker K, Adams M, Bernstein AI (2024 Apr 29). Developmental origins of Parkinson’s disease risk: perinatal exposure to the organochlorine pesticide dieldrin leads to sex-specific DNA modifications in critical neurodevelopmental pathways in the mouse midbrain bioRxiv, (), 2024.04.26.590998. . PMCID: 11092502.


15.) Chomiak AA, Tiedemann RL, Liu Y, Kong X, Cui Y, Wiseman AK, Thurlow KE, Cornett EM, Topper MJ, Baylin SB, Rothbart SB (2024 Mar 27). Select EZH2 inhibitors enhance viral mimicry effects of DNMT inhibition through a mechanism involving NFAT:AP-1 signaling Science Advances, 10(13), eadk4423. . PMCID: 10971413.


16.) Goralski TM, Meyerdirk L, Breton L, Brasseur L, Kurgat K, DeWeerd D, Turner L, Becker K, Adams M, Newhouse DJ, Henderson MX (2024 Mar 26). Spatial transcriptomics reveals molecular dysfunction associated with cortical Lewy pathology Nature Communications, 15(), 2642. . PMCID: 10966039.


17.) Tiedemann RL, Hrit J, Du Q, Wiseman AK, Eden HE, Dickson BM, Kong X, Chomiak AA, Vaughan RM, Hebert JM, David Y, Zhou W, Baylin SB, Jones PA, Clark SJ, Rothbart SB (2024 Feb 16). UHRF1 ubiquitin ligase activity supports the maintenance of low-density CpG methylation. bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, (), . . PMID: 38405904.


18.) Booms A, Pierce SE, van der Schans EJ, Coetzee GA (2024 Jan 17). Parkinson’s disease risk enhancers in microglia iScience, 27(2), 108921. . PMCID: 10845915.


19.) Panzeri I, Fagnocchi L, Apostle S, Tompkins M, Wolfrum E, Madaj Z, Hostetter G, Liu Y, Schaefer K, Chih-Hsiang Y, Bergsma A, Drougard A, Dror E, Chandler D, Schramek D, Triche TJ Jr, Pospisilik JA (2023 Sep 15). Developmental priming of cancer susceptibility bioRxiv, (), 2023.09.12.557446. . PMCID: 10515831.


20.) Pérez-Mojica JE, Enders L, Lau KH, Lempradl A (2023 Sep 7). Single-embryo RNA sequencing for continuous and sex-specific gene expression analysis on Drosophila STAR Protocols, 4(3), 102535. . PMCID: 10493594.


21.) Paul EN, Carpenter TJ, Fitch S, Sheridan R, Lau KH, Arora R, Teixeira JM (2023 Jul 3). Cysteine-rich intestinal protein 1 is a novel surface marker for human myometrial stem/progenitor cells Communications Biology, 6(), 686. . PMCID: 10317972.


22.) Goralski T, Meyerdirk L, Breton L, Brasseur L, Kurgat K, DeWeerd D, Turner L, Becker K, Adams M, Newhouse D, Henderson MX (2023 May 17). Spatial transcriptomics reveals molecular dysfunction associated with Lewy pathology bioRxiv, (), 2023.05.17.541144. . PMCID: 10245657.


23.) Paul EN, Carpenter TJ, Fitch S, Sheridan R, Lau KH, Arora R, Teixeira JM (2023 Mar 18). Cysteine-Rich Intestinal Protein 1 is a Novel Surface Marker for Myometrial Stem/Progenitor Cells bioRxiv, (), 2023.02.20.529273. . PMCID: 10054937.


Description:

Full service Next Generation Sequencing, Single Cell Genomics, and Spatial Transcriptomics facility. Provides the services in: - experimental design support - NGS library generation - Illumina, Element and Nanopore Sequencing - single cell preparation and library generation - spatial slide preparation and imaging - spatial transcriptomic and epigenomic profiling