Serology and Diagnostics
High Throughput Facility
University of Ottawa
Call upon our scientific and operational expertise to assist in project development, logistical planning and grant writing. Our perspectives and experience conducting automated high throughput assays can provide an extra impact, and reduce unforeseen logistical complications, to bring your study to the next level.
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Thorough sample receiving process to ensure samples arrive in good order
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Documented plating and tracking of biosamples
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In-house punching of dried blood spot samples with automatic plate map generation
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Secure, short-term storage in dedicated 4° C, -20° C and -80° C space
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Sample quality assessment and quality reporting
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Detection of IgG, IgA, IgM against SARS-CoV-2 Spike and Nucleocapsid
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Measurement of Spike antibody Neutralization capacity
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Work with serum, plasma, dried Blood Spots
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Throughput of over 12,000 samples/assays per week
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Development of Influenza A and RSV antibody assays underway
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Conversion of raw data to serological titers or antibody inhibitory capacity
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Quality control of automated assay runs
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Normalization of longitudinal data
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Batch-to-batch normalization
Make robust conclusions and demonstrate them clearly with robust and accurate representation and interpretation of your data. Our expertise can aid in manuscript preparation, including figure generation, contextualization of findings, methods descriptions and manuscript editing.
Contributions to epidemiology and infectious disease knowledge base