Immunoassay
What we do?
In the immunoassay group our primary function is to measure protein levels in biological fluids and tissues using ELISA techniques. The assays are designed, developed and validated in such a way as to behave in a robust fashion and potentially in large sample sets. ELISA protein level determinations in large sample-sets are often the final validation of targets identified by our colleagues in genomics and proteomic
Facilities
We have all the necessary equipment to develop and assay large numbers of samples in a robust fashion with the capability to deploy multiplex (more than one analyte per assay) assay platforms.
Meet the Team
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Trupti Dhanani, MBA, MSc, BSc
Trupti joined the TMRC group in 2008 and works as a Research Technician within the TMRC Immunoassay group. She completed her BSc in Microbiology from South Gujarat University in 2002. She followed this by completing her MSc in Biotechnology from Bangalore Univeristy, India in 2004 with a gold medal for best outgoing student award. Proir to joining the TMRC Trupti worked as a microbiologist in the Biopharmaceutical industry for three years and in 2008 obtained her MBA in Biotechnology from Abertay University, Dundee. |
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Christal Grierson, PhD
Christal Grierson is a scientific officer within the TMRC Immunoassay group. She gained a B.Sc (Hons) in Biochemistry from Glasgow University in 1986 and was awarded a Ph.D from the University of St. Andrews (Fish Endocrinology Research Group) in 1990. Prior to joining the TMRC, Christal Grierson was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of St. Andrews looking at onset of stress in both wild and aquaculture species of salmonids, subjected to the simultaneous challenge of seawater transfer and parasitic infestation. Laboratory analysis of osmoregulatory, metabolic and stress markers was combined with the novel application of piecewise linear statistics. Christal was awarded a Daphne Jackson Trust fellowship in 1999 (St. Andrews), which investigated stress, particularly cortisol levels, in halibut. |
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Agnieszka Kieloch
Agnieszka Kieloch joined TMRC in November 2006 as the Tissue Culture specialist within TMRC. She received her MSc in Bioengineering and Biotechnology from Institute of Chemical Technology Prague, Czech Republic in 1995. Prior to joining TMRC, she was Scientific Officer in MRC Unit, University of Dundee researching the understanding of the role of protein phosphorylation and cell regulation in human disease, where she contributed in understanding the role of PDK1 and LKB1 in insulin signalling and Peutz-Jeghers cancer syndrome respectively. |
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Inger Selmer, PhD
Inger Selmer is the Post doctoral scientist within the TMRC Immunoassay group. Following her BSc at Glasgow University, Inger completed her Ph.D in 2000 working on Somatostatin receptors at Cambridge University. Her initial Post Doctoral research in The Glaxo Institute of Applied Pharmacology continued in the area of SST receptors and their function in the CNS. In 2001 Inger joined GSK as a Principal Scientist to focus on target identification and validation in the functional gastrointestinal diseases. Her subsequent research involved investigating the prognostic value of Migration Stimulation Factor in breast and oral cancers at Dundee University in 2006 before joining the TMRC in Jan 2007. |
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Anna Maria Tommasi, PhD
Anna Maria Tommasi is a scientific officer within the TMRC Immunoassay group. Anna gained a B.Sc in Biological Science from University of Padua in 1995 lookin at chromosome damage on mammalian cells. Anna was awarded a Ph.D from the University of Padua (Hepatological Sciences) in 2004, working on monocyte-derived dendritic cells and their maturation induction. Prior to joining the TMRC Anna was a Postdoctoral fellow at Imperial College London working on Interferon ? and IL-10 signaling through the INFAR2 and IL-10RB in tolerogenic dendritic cells with high expression of ILT3 |
