- Hank's Balanced Salt Solution for live cell imaging
- Solutions for immunofluorescence of cultured cells
- Basic immunofluorescence protocol for cultured cells
- Loading of ALIs with DAF-FM for imaging of reactive nitrogen species
- Loading of primary ALIs with Fluo-4 for imaging calcium
- ALI transwell coating solution protocol
- Media for primary cells (Lonza-based)
- Stock solutions for nasal/bronchial gland work
- BacMam transduction (for cADDis) of 8-well chamber slides
- Lipofectamine 3000 for chamber slides
- SPQ Buffers for nitrate substitution
- Heat-killing of bacteria
- Wide-field IX-83 microscope filters
- DSU microscope filters
- Microscope configurations (fpbase.org)
- Genetically-encoded fluorescent biosensors in the lab
Media coverage of our research
University of Pennsylvania Links:
- Perelman School of Medicine
- Department of Otorhinolaryngology Research
- Penn Rhinology Research Lab
- Biomedical Library
- Hidden Benefits at Penn
Chronic Rhinosinusitis/Rhinology Resources:
- International Consensus (ICON): Chronic Rhinosinusitis (2014. World Allergy Organ J. 7:25; PMCID: PMC4213581)
- EAACI Global Atlas of Allergic Rhinitis and Chronic Rhinosinusitis
- EAACI Global Atlas of Allergy
- Philly.com (area news)
- Yards Brewing (makers of a fine IPA and Philadelphia Pale Ale)
- Olympus Microscopy Resource Page
- Nikon MicroscopyU (microscopy resource page)
- Leica Science Lab
- Chroma Technologies (microscope filters)
- Sutter Instruments (microscopy and imaging components)
- ImageJ (free but powerful image analysis software)
- ImageJ2
- FIJI (FIJI Is Just ImageJ)
- MBF Plugins (McMaster Biophotonics "ImageJ for Microscopy" plugins for ImageJ)
- µManager (open source microscopy acquisition software)
- Fluorescence Spectra Viewer (LTI)
- Icy (free open platform for bioimage analysis and informatics from the Quantitative Image Analysis Unit at Institut Pasteur)
General Science Resources:
- GraphPad Prism (statistics and graphing software)
- Graphpad Data Analysis Resource Guide (statistics, curve fitting, etc.)
- NCBI Pubmed
- NCBI Pubmed Central (freely available articles)
- NCBI BLAST (basic local alignment search tool)
- HMMR (biosequence analysis using profile hidden Markov models)
- Superfamily (database of structural and functional annotation for all protein and genomes)
- ConSurf Server (identification of functional regions in proteins)
- TMpred (prediction of transmembrane regions and orientation)
- Cobalt (constraint-based multiple protein alignment tool)
- Unigene (transcriptome database)
- UniProt (central repository of protein sequence and function)
- BioGRID (biological general repository for interaction datasets)
- ExPASy (bioinfomatics resource portal)
- Open PCR
- Open qPCR
- Biopac (acquisition tools and and analysis software)
- GPCRDB (information and web tools about G-protein coupled receptors
- BitterDB (database of bitter compounds)
- BitterX (bitter compound identification and target prediction)
- Color palette suggestions for designing figures for color blind readers