The Facility is overseen by a committee of four: Drs. Peter Hoyt, Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB), Rob Burnap, and Rolf Prade, Prof. and Assoc. Prof. in the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Ulrich Melcher, Prof. in BMB. The latter serves as coordinator. Dr.Hoyt manages the operation of the Facility for the committee.

The Facility was established in part through grants from the EPSCoR program of the National Science Foundation and the Biomedical Resource Infrastructure Network program of the National Institutes of Health. Currently, no fees are being charged for server access or consultation. Campus investigators making substantial use of the facility are asked to include partial future funding for the facility in their grant proposals.

A full-time system administrator, Ms. Yan Song, manages the servers and functions as applications programmer.  Another full-time employee, Mr. Praveen Yerramseti, works in the Microarray Technology Core Facility to process samples and generate microarrays as part of the store services. We encourage anyone to contact us and use our services for microarrays, nanoliter dispensing, microprotein crystallography, Bioanalyzer service, or bioinformatics. It is a service to the OSU community and others provided AT COST and we do NOT MAKE a PROFIT. By simply allowing us to do your analyses, you get work done for the same price or less than if you did it yourself. In the meantime, your lab members are free to perform other experiments and tasks. It's a win-win for most groups. If you have questions, contact Dr. Hoyt at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

 Current and Past Support:

• The Microarray Technologies and BIOinfOSU Core facility are generously supported by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Dean of the Collge of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, and the Office of the Vice President of Research and Technology Transfer
• INBRE (July 1, 2004 to June 30, 2009):NIH Director Elias Zerhouni and Congressman Ernest Istook visited Oklahoma City to announce the awarding of over $17 million to Oklahoma over five years to suppor the “Oklahoma IdeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence”. The program focuses mainly on research facilitation at primarily undergraduate institutions. Part of this facilitation requires “an integrated network of bioinformatics facilities dedicated to supporting research in functional genomics.” Partial support for our facility is included in the award which began July 1, 2004

•  BRIN (September 1, 2001 to June 30, 2004)

•  COBRE (September 1, 2000 to June 30, 2004)