CoLabs Resources and Collaborators

Contact: Bevin English bevin.english@ucsf.edu

We collaborate with researchers across UCSF on projects that require the handling of high-containment pathogens. This includes developing and optimizing protocols to adhere to BSL3 safety standards and executing experiments with live pathogens. This is a restricted lab space that allows us to safely address scientific questions regarding SARS-CoV-2, Histoplasma capsulatum, and Coccidioides species.

Contact: Vincent Chan 

The Office of Collaborative Research (OCR) is a group within the ImmunoX research arm that is responsible for fundraising, initiating, and executing collaborative clinical and translational research projects. The team also provides support and expertise on research regulations and compliance. OCR is dedicated to advancing medical science and improving patient care through the development of innovative research initiatives.

Contact: Jessie Turnbaugh gnotobiotics@ucsf.edu

The mission of the Gnotobiotics CoLab plug-in is to lower the activation energy for researchers across departments to study the impact of the microbiome and pathogenic microorganisms on host pathophysiology and behavior. Mice will routinely be bred and maintained in a germ-free (sterile) state.

https://gnotobiotics.ucsf.edu/gnotobiotics-core-facility

Contact: Moriah Sandy moriah.sandy@ucsf.edu

The UCSF Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center (QMAC) is a full-service metabolomics facility housed at the Parnassus campus, equipped with state-of-the-art mass spectrometers for targeted and untargeted metabolomics. This small-molecule analysis platform will enable the development of frameworks for predicting disease, distinguishing disease phenotypes, deciphering biochemical mechanisms of health and disease, and the discovery of new drugs and drug targets.

Contact: Connie Ha connie.ha@ucsf.edu

The Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine’s Microbial Genomics group offers next-generation sequence-based microbiome profiling and support for data analyses.

Contact: Mark Looney Mark.Looney@ucsf.edu

The Microsurgery CoLab Plug-In offers advanced surgical techniques to create chimeric animals using the organ transplantation technique to deplete cells, fate map cells during development, and track cellular migration.

Contact: Oghenekevwe Gbenedio Oghenekevwe.Gbenedio@ucsf.edu

Our Organoid unit provides expertise, infrastructure, and biobanks for UCSF researchers to tap into and collaborate with Organoid on a project basis and add organoid-approaches to their existing research programs.