Facilities
Scientific progress relies on the availability of state of the art technical resources. The Division of Immunobiology runs several state of the art core facilities that provide outstanding and cost-effective service to both the basic and translational research programs. Our FACS facility offers multi-parameter analysis allowing for rare cell populations to be studied as well as two high-speed cell sorters that are multi-parameter and can be run under BSL3 conditions. Our hybridoma center has a long history of generating high quality hamster and mouse monoclonal antibodies for clients inside and outside of the institution. Lastly, for over 15 years, our transgenic, knockout and microinjection core facility has an outstanding track record for generating genetically engineered animals at the highest levels. Unique to the institution is our large mouse facility with a capacity of over 60,000 cages.
The department supports core facilities for bioinformatics, electron microscopy, pathogen discovery, tumor and tissue banking, histology and immunocytochemistry.
Elsewhere in the institution, a wide variety of core facilities are available and include cores for ES stem cell transfection and culture, microarray analysis, NextGen sequencing (genome, exome, target capture, RNASeq, CHIPSeq), animal imaging, proteomics, and viral vectors among others. Many other core services are offered by specialized core facilities are run by the Siteman Cancer Center, the Diabetic Research Training Center, Digestive Disease Research Core Center, DRTC, the Hope Center for neurological disorders and the O’Brien Kidney Disease Research Center.