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The Center for Advanced Technology (CAT)
The Center for Advanced Technology (CAT) operates within the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco. Our core mission is to facilitate and enhance research endeavors within UCSF laboratories by providing essential resources and hosting advanced instrumentation. While our primary focus remains on serving UCSF, we extend a welcoming invitation to other academic institutions and industry sectors, offering access to our facility through prior arrangements. Collaboration knows no boundaries at CAT, as we strive to foster innovation and drive impactful discoveries.
The CAT houses such advanced instrumentation as DNA sequencers (Illumina and PacBio), qPCR and dPCR machines, pipetting robots, and other more specialized equipment for genomics and bioinformatics. In addition to our permanent equipment, the CAT demos and tests new instrumentation from vendors who are looking for a central location to house their equipment.
We share our physical space with the latest microscopy technologies hosted by the Nikon Imaging Center and with a BD FACSAria cell sorter hosted by the Laboratory for Cell Analysis at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Find more cores on the Research Resource Program Core Search.
Please visit our website for more information: cat.ucsf.edu
CAT hours of operation and location
Hours |
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Staffed Monday - Friday
8 a.m.-5 p.m.
24/7 access is available by request
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CAT Core is located at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus Genentech Hall in room GH-S252
Genentech Hall S252
600 16th Street
San Francisco, CA 94158
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- To receive e-mail updates for general CAT info, send an e-mail to listserv@listsrv.ucsf.edu. Leave the subject blank and include "subscribe cat_info FIRSTNAME LASTNAME" without the quotes in the e-mail. This list will not receive e-mail related to sequencing.
- To subscribe to our sequencing list, send an e-mail to listserv@listsrv.ucsf.edu. Leave the subject blank and include "subscribe cat-seq FIRSTNAME LASTNAME" without the quotes in the e-mail.
- To subscribe to our CAT bioinformatics list, send an e-mail to listserv@listsrv.ucsf.edu leave the subject blank, and include "subscribe Bioinformatics FIRSTNAME LASTNAME" in the body without the quotes in the e-mail.
Referencing the CAT Core and Publications
When submitting manuscripts, please acknowledge the CAT by including the text: “Sequencing was performed at the UCSF CAT, supported by UCSF PBBR, RRP IMIA, and NIH 1S10OD028511-01 grants.”
To aid our facility in future grant submissions, it helps to reference labs and publications that have benefited from our core please notify us of your achievement by emailing catcore [at] ucsf.edu the PMID number, lab, and the piece of equipment used in the paper.