Metabolomics Center
301 CLSL, 601 South Goodwin Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801
Director: Lucas Li, Ph.D., Phone 217-333-5939, E-mail: lucasli@uiuc.edu

On-campus fees effective July 1, 2007

General Charging Polices in Metabolomics Center

• All instruments require sign-up in advance on the sign-up sheets next to each instrument.
• All new users must see a Metabolomics Center staff member before using any instrument for the first time to arrange for training. New users cannot be trained by other personnel, including the trained members of their research group.
• Cancellation Policy: 24 hours notice (by in person cancellation on the sign-up sheet, email or phone call to the Metabolomics Center) is required or you will be charged for the time signed up for. If extenuating circumstances occur that make 24 hours cancellation impossible, please talk to the Director.
• Users must in most cases provide their own extra supplies such as sample vials, specialized solvents and specialized GC and LC columns, and to keep for their own use.
• On instruments that have a required clean-up protocol, there is a $50 service fee if the protocol is not performed by the user.
• The Metabolomics Center staff members are willing to help the users to develop the methods and provide consultation according to the user’s needs. Please talk to the Director for potential emerging costs.
• The Metabolomics Center is responsible for instrument set-up and instrument monitoring.

Sample Preparation Fee Structure

• The Metabolomics Center staff member can help prepare the samples. For example, in GC/MS, the procedure will include sample extraction from raw materials (i.e., leaves, seeds, stem, tissue, etc.) and derivatization (i.e., TMS derivatives). Some compounds like free amino acids from raw meterials may need purification (i.e., solid-phase extraction. The user is responsible for supplying SPE cartridges).
• The amount of sample preparation time varies depending on the projects. Please talk with Center Staff for detail information. In general, the fee will be$30/h.

Instrument Operation Fee Structure

* Minimal amount of training time is at the Director’s discretion and will depend on the user’s experience.

Data Processing Fee Structure

• Upon the user’s request, qualitative and quantitative data and statistical analysis (i.e., Principle Component Analysis (PCA), discriminant analysis (DA), Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering (AHC), etc.) to the acquired experimental data can be supplied.
• In general, the fee will be $25/h.

*** Service includes sample preparation, instrument set-up, method development, instrument monitoring, data processing and consulting.

Facility users other than State of Illinois institutions are subject to a 25.3% indirect cost rate for federally funded projects.  For off-campus projects exceeding $5,000 a contract must be negotiated through University of Illinois Grants and Contracts.  For further information, contact Dr. Mark A. Mikel (217.244.0144, mmikel@uiuc.edu), Associate Director of the Roy J. Carver Biotechnology Center.

Metabolomics Center
Dr. Lucas (Zhong) Li, Director
C301 Chemical and Life Sciences Laboratory, 601 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana, IL 61801
Phone: (217) 333-5939     FAX:      
Email: lucasli@uiuc.edu