The Spencer lab is located in room 613H on the 6th floor of the Southwest Tower
in the Wash U/Barnes-Jewish Hospital Medical Campus in St. Louis, Missouri.
We have 900 square feet of lab space with a dedicated tissue culture room and an equipment bay with an Agilent Tapestation, Covaris ultrafocused sonicator, three thermocyclers/thermomixers, protein and nucleic acid electrophoresis equipment, and multiple centrifuges. Within steps from the lab there are shared qPCR machines, imagers, plate readers, automated protein analyzers, and Neon and Lonza electroporation instruments. We are also located one floor below the Siteman flow cytometry core, with analyzers, sorters, and Incucyte live cell monitoring instruments. Most computing is done on a dedicated 128 core compute cluster with 1.5Tb of total memory. We also have access to two DRAGEN FPGA servers for hardware-accelerated genomic analysis.
Lab Manager, deputy troubleshooter and chief lab safety officer
Post-doc and new lab member!
Graduate student, DNA methylation expert and local food guru
Bioinformatics Research Assistant, Texan
CLIA Bioinformatics scientist, Genomics expert
Wash U Undergraduate student
Former postoc and staff scientist
Now a laboratory genetics and genomics trainee at Wash U
Spencer lab’s first hire
Now a Genetics Grad student at U of Utah
Wash U Undergraduate MARC Scholar
Now a MSTP at UCSF
MS&T Master’s student, summer intern
Now at Sandia National Laboratories