Testimonies of users
"The technicians of the core-facility were extremely helpful and accessible throughout the whole project. The quality of the bioinformatics team
was instrumental in the overall success of the project"
«I had the privilege to coordinate a two-year scientific consortium that included the GIGA-Genomics core facility. Our collaboration focused on the analysis of freshly isolated human liver cells and required a high degree of flexibility in planning on-site sample processing experiments. The technicians of the core-facility were extremely helpful and accessible throughout the whole project. The quality of the bioinformatics team was instrumental in the overall success of the project, which resulted in impactful scientific publications. I highly recommend the services of Dr. Coppieters and his team without any reservation».
Adil El Taghdouini, Laboratory of Pediatric Hepatology and Cell Therapy (PEDI), UCLouvain
We are proud to work with the GIGA Genomics facility, whose members are always available and motivated to share their experience and help us. The last four years they were at our side when we designed more than 10 sequencing runs, adapting protocols to molecular ecology challenges.
“Exploring what we know about the evolutionary history of African rain forests is a prerequisite to predict their potential response to ongoing perturbations. The general objective of our research aims to better understand how past environmental changes have shaped the current distribution and composition of African rain forests and the genetic diversity of their constituent tree species. In this context, we are developing high throughput sequencing tools to analyze the genetic polymorphism of representative African trees and to understand the processes leading to such a diversification in this hotspot of biodiversity. Apart from the development of genomic libraries, we are especially studying whole plastid genomes and nuclear exons by target enrichment, to better understand the origin, speciation and differentiation of forest trees belonging to different functional groups. Modern high-throughput sequencing techniques are improving substantially the resolution of phylogenetic and phylogeographic inferences even at low taxonomic levels. We are proud to work with the GIGA Genomics facility, whose members are always available and motivated to share their experience and help us. The last four years they were at our side when we designed more than 10 sequencing runs, adapting protocols to molecular ecology challenges. Hoping that this is just the beginning…”
Jérémy Migliore & Olivier Hardy, Evolutionary Biology and Ecology, Université Libre de Bruxelles
The availability of such technology at the GIGA opens wonderful new avenues in immunology and keeps us highly competitive on an international scale.
“In my opinion, one of the main asset of the GIGA-Genomics Platform resides in its close relationship with its users. All the members I have got to know, from the director to the technical staff, have always paid close attention to our specific research and training needs. Over the course of the past two years, my team has performed bulk RNA-sequencing analyses with their help, has followed a high-quality and interactive basic training in R programming, has extensively discussed the possibility to purchase a specific device for droplet-based single RNA-sequencing, and has performed several successful single-cell RNA-sequencing experiments on such newly purchased material. The availability of such technology at the GIGA opens wonderful new avenues in Immunology and keeps us highly competitive on an international scale. I look forward to the possibility of working with them in the near future.”
Thomas Marichal, Research Associate of the F.R.S.-FNRS, GIGA-I3, University of Liège
The GIGA-Genomics platform has been of vital importance for our research. They have been focusing on the complex issue of analyzing the data.
"The GIGA-genomic platform has been of vital importance for our research. We were asked to assess ribosome speed on transcripts by Riboseq, a technique which had never been performed in our institute. The GIGA-genomic platform set up the library and the sequencing protocols and has been focusing on the complex issue of analyzing the data. The frequent discussions we had, have been of great importance for the quality of our work far behind the issues strictly related to the performed experiment. It has been a real pleasure to work with them and I believe this platform is an important resource for our institute.”
Francesca Rapino, Laboratory of Cancer Signaling, University of Liège
