Oak Crest Services

Pathogens Core

The Pathogens Core supports our industry, academic and community partners to pursue their pathogen-based projects using the facilities and expertise at Oak Crest.

Oak Crest has more than 20 years of experience in public health, microbiology and molecular biology of several viral and bacterial pathogens. The core provides services to assist your projects with collection, isolation, quantification and culturing of pathogens. We can provide detailed analysis and reports on fermentation, composition and abundance, host-pathogen interactions and evaluation of therapeutics, including:

Multiple certified BSL 2 safety hoods with aerobic and anaerobic fermentation capabilities
Culturing and isolation, including “difficult to handle” microbes
Identification and quantification of pathogens using custom made assays
Bio-burden testing
Multiple dedicated tissue culture laboratories with BSL2 and BSL2+ capabilities
High-throughput ELISA, Cytokine-Chemokine assays and analysis
Pharmacokinetics and therapeutics evaluation with mono- and multi-layer platforms
Protein separation and purification
Multiplexed RT-qPCR and qPCR based assays with up to five probes
Gene manipulation, cloning and overexpression

COVID-19 testing in BSL-2

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qPCR systems for quantitative measurement of pathogen DNA/RNA.