ASTAR IDL Pathogen Flow Platform

What we do:

The A*STAR IDL Pathogen Flow Platform has the expertise and workflow to support your infectious diseases research needs.

A comprehensive characterisation of host immunity during pathogen infections is critical in broadening our understanding of the disease mechanism and key to the development of novel therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostic tools.

A*STAR IDL Cytometers

Scope of Services

Study Design

Technical assistance for BSL2e operations (sample handling)

Applications

Immunophenotyping

Serological Detection

Cytokines Quantifications

Biomarkers Detection

Cell Proliferation Assays

Disease Monitoring

Vaccine Monitoring

Applications of Services

Applications of Pathogen Flow services in infectious diseases research: Pathogen flow assay for detection of spike protein-specific antibodies in symptomatic individuals with COVID-19 (left). Immunophenotyping of CD45+ immune cells in healthy, acute and recovered covid patients revealed the presence of CD169+ monocytes and CD11b+ neutrophils in acute-phase patients (right). (Sources: Goh et al., 2021 Cell Rep Med; Carissimo et al., 2020 Nat Comm).

For more information, you could reach out to RSC at RSC_Enquiries@a-star.edu.sg or the following person in charge in A*STAR IDL listed below.

1. Access to A*STAR IDL Pathogen Flow Cytometry's PPMS online booking system

2. Zi Wei CHANG, A*STAR IDL Platform Head

3. Brenda AW, A*STAR IDL Research Officer

4. A*STAR IDL Pathogen Flow Platform General Enquiries