Priority Research Area Infections
Cellular Microbiology
Mission
Projects
Funding
Techniques
Publications
Staff
Techniques
Infection biology
Infection biology
- Studies under BSL3 safety conditions
- Aerosol infection models for tuberculosis (BSL3)
- Vaccination and drug treatment protocols
- Lung microbiota analysis (16S RNA sequencing), FISH
- In vivo imaging (BSL3)
- In vitro infection models of mouse and human primary cells (BSL3)
Infection Immunology
- FACS analysis and sorting (BSL2 and 3)
- Histology, immunohistology
- Cytokine / chemokine assays
- T cell assays
- Real-time PCR
- Small lipid mediator analysis
Cellular microbiology
- Intracellular trafficking studies, confocal microscopy
- Life cell imaging (BSL2 and 3)
- Primary cell cultures (human, mouse; macrophages, neutrophils, dendritic cells, lymphocytes, lung epithelial cells)
- Biofilmassays
- Subcellular fractionation, phagosome isolation
- Cell death assays
- siRNA-based knock down
Biochemistry
- SDS-PAGE, western blot
- Liposome technology
- Glycolipid isolation, labeling
- Thin layer chromatography