Our Team
Chun-Liang Chen, PhD
Professor & Director of Biobehavior Laboratory
Paul Rivas, Sr.
Research Lab Tech
Biobanking Storage and Testing
Several freezers store various biological samples from local and national studies. The laboratory also has resources for various physical assessments including, but not limited to the following:
- Body composition (i.e., physician scale, BMI assessment)
- Strength and fitness (i.e., baseline hydraulic hand dynamometer, ParvoMedic Metabolic Card)
- Cardiovascular function (i.e., pulse oximetry, blood pressure assessment).
- Specimen collection (i.e., blood, urine, etc.)
- Diagnostic ordering (i.e., HbA1c, Comprehensive Metabolic Panel, etc.)
MESO QuickPlex SQ 120 MM
Laboratory Services
Clinical and preclinical sample preparation and processing service for omics analysis
- Bulk or single cell omics
- Genomics, transcriptomics, epigenomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and lipidomics
- Omics data analysis
Comprehensive assays for single-cell human immune cell profiling and immune cell activation assessment
- Standard and customized marker panels
- Additional subpanels of markers related to stress, pain, depression, trauma and dementia
- Additional subpanels of markers for cancer-immune hybrid cells
- Cancer microenvironment immune cell panels
Ultra-sensitive MESO QuickPlex SQ 120 MM biomarker assays
- Standard and customized biomarker kits (Meso Scale Discovery)
- Multiplex protein biomarker detection
ELISA service
- Standard and customized biomarker detection
Our active collaboration with Quest Diagnostics increases our capacity to process assays.
Neuropsychological Testing
The Biobehavioral laboratory also has neuropsychological testing resources, including, but not limited to:
- Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
- Cambridge Neuropsychological Test Automated Battery (CANTAB)
- Cardiovascular function (i.e., pulse oximetry, blood pressure assessment).
- Delis-Kaplan Executive Function System (D-KEFS)
