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About

Human Immune Monitoring Center

 

Welcome to the HIMC - Human Immune Monitoring Center

 
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HIMC:  A one-stop shop for immune monitoring services.                         What we can measure in the immune system.

Overview of Services

 

The Human Immune Monitoring Center (HIMC) is designed to be a comprehensive source for immune monitoring services for clinical and translational studies.  We perform:

 

Immunoassays:  Luminex cytokine arrays, MesoScale Discovery assays

Mass Cytometry (CyTOF):  Immunophenotyping, Intracellular cytokines, Phospho-epitopes

Flow Cytometry:  Immunophenotyping, Intracellular cytokines, Phospho-epitopes

Genomics:  RNA/DNA extractions, Microarrays, Microfluidic qPCR arrays, Targeted RNAseq

BioBanking:  Serum, Plasma, PBMC, and Tissue processing; Sample banking and retrieval

 

Parallel coordinates view of Luminex cytokine data:                             SPADE analysis of CyTOF data:

  

Goals of the HIMC include:

  1. To provide standardized, state-of-the art immune monitoring assays at the RNA, protein, and cellular level. These are assays that have already been validated in the HIMC.
  2. To test and develop new technologies for immune monitoring. We are always developing new assays in the above areas, as well as testing new potential immune monitoring platforms.
  3. To efficiently archive, report, and mine data from immune monitoring studies, so as to increase the value of the data and to assist in biomarker discovery. The HIMC uses Stanford Data Miner for integration of data from the standard HIMC assays, along with de-identified clinical and demographic data. One year after release of results to an investigator, data will be released for all users of the HIMC to access, unless appealed by the investigator for reasons of still-pending publication.

The HIMC was developed in 2007 by the Institute for Immunity, Transplantation, and Infection (Mark Davis, Ph.D., director) in conjunction with the Center for Clinical Immunology (C. Garrison Fathman, founder).  Our Faculty Advisor is Mark Davis.

  

Getting Started

 

  • Stanford Users:  LOGIN or REGISTER for an iLab account using valid Stanford credentials (SUNet ID).

Leadership

 

Holden Maecker, PhD | Facility Director

Office (Rm D039, Fairchild Building):  (650) 723-1671

Email:  maecker at stanford.edu

 

Staff

 

Name

Role

Phone

Email

Location
         

Yael Rosenberg-Hasson

Technical Director, Immunoassay Mgr

650-723-4984

yaelhr at stanford.edu

 1651 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304; Rm 360

Mike Leipold

Mass Cytometry (CyTOF) Manager

650-723-4984

mleipold at stanford.edu

299 Campus Dr. Fairchild Science Bldg; Rm D033
Xuhuai Ji Genomics Manager 650-723-5050 xuhuai.ji at stanford.edu

1651 Page Mill Road, Palo Alto, CA 94304; Rm 107
      

   

Locations and Hours of Operation 

 

Location

Building

Room

Hours

Location
         

Immunoassay & Cell Analysis Lab     

1651 Page Mill Road,  

 360   

9 AM - 5 PM     

Genomics Lab

1651 Page Mill Road,

107

8 AM - 5 PM

Mass Cytometry & Flow

299 Campus Dr. Fairchild Science Bldg

D033

9 AM - 5 PM 

http://goo.gl/maps/swj8g
         

Links and Resources

    

Publication Acknowledgement 

As with all Stanford Service Centers, credit must be given to Human Immune Monitoring Center (HIMC) for data that results in a publication. If the work done at HIMC produces data resulting in a figure in a publication, you are required to acknowledge HIMC in the publication. Further, if HIMC staff members provided significant experimental design, data interpretation, or other intellectual contribution (as evaluated by the PI), then it is expected that these individuals will be coauthors on the publication.

One of our CyTOFs was purchased with funds from a NIH S10 Shared Instrumentation Grant (S10RR027431-01).  Please acknowledge this grant in your papers using CyTOF data.

  

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Contacts

Name Role Phone Email Location
Holden Maecker, PhD
Director
 
650.723.1671
 
maecker@stanford.edu
 
Fairchild Sci Bldg, Rm D039, 299 Campus Drive, Stanford, California 94305-5124
 
Debra Panasuk
Finance Manager
 
650.725.7483
 
dpanasuk@stanford.edu
 
1215 Welch Road, Modular A, Rm 96, MC 5422 Stanford, CA 94305-5422
 

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