The Functional Genomics Centre is a structure, located in the Biotechnologies Department of The University of Verona, devoted to the study and characterization of  gene expression in plants. The structure is coordinated by Prof. Massimo Delledonne and Mario Pezzotti.

Thanks to the fundings of Fondazione Cariverona the Centre acquired a Combimatrix station for the synthesis of both 12K and 90K microarray chips. 

The Centre has recently acquired a Maui hybridization station and a ScanArray GenePix 4400A 2.5 um resolution scanner in order to hybridize and analyze Nimblegen high resolution arrays.

An Illumina BeadXPress Reader has also recently been acquired. This platform allows the fast analysis of up to 384 SNPs on 96 samples at once.

An Illumina Genome Analyzer II next-gen sequencer is shared with Istituto di Genomica Applicata (IGA) in Udine. The Centre offers an RNASeq sequencing and data analysis service.

The Centre manages an Illumina Hiseq 1000 recently acquired from the University of Verona.

The Centre offers also an expression analisys service and has all necessary instrumentation and expertise, from the quality control of samples to the bioinformatic analysis of data.