Immunology Support Core, Cellular Immunology Unit

Director: Sylwester, Andrew, PhD

Summary:

"The CIU offers all the study organization and technical expertise developed at the Louis Picker Lab to researchers whose questions require obtaining and processing monkey immunological samples, and/or utilizing cytometry to assay phenotype of CFC/ICS information." The CIU was originally developed as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation CAVD (Collaboration for AIDS Vaccine Discovery) consortium.

Affiliations:

• Oregon National Primate Research Center
• Vaccine & Gene Therapy Institute

People:

• Director: Sylwester, Andrew, PhD
  

Resources:

Instruments

• BD Biosciences LSR II analyser ( Flow cytometer analyzer )
  

  Two LSR II analysers are available.

Services

• Economies-of-scale reagent purchasing ( Support service )
  

• Flow cytometry assays service ( Material analysis service )
  

  "Specialized flow cytometric assays (phosflow; BrdU; CFSE)."

• Flow cytometry sorting service ( Service )
  

• High-throughput analysis service ( Material analysis service )
  

• Immunological study design and implementation ( Support service )
  

Web Links:

• http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/research/centers-institutes/on
  prc/research-services/research-support/immunology.cfm