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ALERT Welcome to Pitt’s iLab System!
Pitt’s iLab is integrated with our single sign-on and billing systems, linking faculty and staff grants to reserved time and services.
As of April 2026, we have 36 shared research facilities online with more expected to onboard throughout 2026.
Important: The department field for all Pitt employees has been standardized using a naming convention. Please do not modify this field, as it is essential for building templates that enable automated reporting.
Please review our Shared Facilities webpage and the iLab training material available in the “Using Core Facilities” section.
(hide this warning on this page)The Health Sciences Sequencing Core (HSSC) is located on the 8th floor of the Rangos Research Building as part of the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. Our facility offers next generation sequencing and spatial transcriptomics services to all University of Pittsburgh researchers. The HSSC operates two Illumina NextSeq 2000 instruments with Illumina DRAGEN servers that can generate up to 500Gb of sequence data per flow cell, and one MiSeq instrument for targeted resequencing, small genome, metagenomic and microbiome studies. For sample QC, our core utilizes a Fragment Analyzer (Agilent), Qubit Fluorometers (Invitrogen) and a TapeStation (Agilent). For spatial transcriptomics services, we offer end-to-end support for 10x Visium and 10x Xenium workflows. We operate two 10x Genomics CytAssist for Visium and Visium HD workflows, and one 10x Genomics Xenium Analyzer for running in situ Xenium workflows.
Primary Sq. Ft: 1350
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Days of the Week |
Hours open |
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Monday – Friday |
9:00 am – 5:00 pm |
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| William MacDonald, PhD |
Associate Director (Facility Director)
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wam30@pitt.edu
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Rangos Research Center 8145
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| Amanda C. Poholek, PhD |
Faculty Director
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poholeka@pitt.edu
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The Assembly Building
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| HSSC General Email |
hsscchp@pitt.edu
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| Rania Elbakri, MSc |
Senior Research Staff
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rania.elbakri@chp.edu
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Rangos Research Center 8145
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| Yvette Rhodes |
Senior Research Staff
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ylr3@pitt.edu
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Rangos Research Center 8145
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| Bryan Thompson |
Senior Research Staff
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brt2@pitt.edu
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Rangos Research Center 8145
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| Yvonne Eisele, PhD |
Senior Research Staff
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eiseley@pitt.edu
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Rangos Research Center 8145
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