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Over 20 years of Optical Microscopy experience as Associate Director of Core facilities at the Universities of Missouri and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Trained over several thousand undergraduate, graduate and postdoctoral students in optical microscopy and developed custom protocols for several interdisciplinary fields of Science. As the Director of this transformed Cytometry facility here in UIUC, we offer services in Flow Cytometry, analysis and sorting and combining with microscopy of single cells to crystalline architecture of calcification in human body and other natural environments. Combining these tools with 10x Genomics (Visium and FFPE CytAssist) and Curio BioScience, spatial transcriptomics analysis of from cancer cells, tissues to plant roots. Demonstrated history of working with Research and Development Scientific projects profile Agriculture, Food, Nutrition and Chemical industries. Skills in Scientific Research, Data Analysis, Teaching, Higher Education, published over 60 peer reviewed publications (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=l-wN4VoAAAAJ&hl=en) and serving as ad hoc reviewer for leading scientific journals.
Mayandi Sivaguru, PhD., Director |
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Marcin Wozniak earned his Ph.D. in pharmacy from the Department of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics in 2019 at the Medical University of Gdansk, Poland. From 2015 to 2019, he was an Instructor with the Department of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics, Faculty of Pharmacy, Medical University of Gdansk. In 2019 he joined Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign as a Carle Foundation Hospital-Beckman Institute postdoctoral fellow. Currently, he holds a research specialist position at Cytometry to Omics Facility, Carver Biotechnology Center, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Marcin Wozniak, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Cytometry and Microscopy to Omics Facility, Carver Biotechnology Center |
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I received my B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Illinois, Springfield, and began working at UIUC in 2013 after moving to Champaign.
Kate Janssen, M.S. Research Specialist, |
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Kerishnee has completed her BSC Honors degree in Microbiology and Biochemistry from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa in 2021. From 2021-2023, her role as an intern analyst at the University of Stellenbosch has allowed her to gain 2 years’ experience in flow cytometry, electron microscopy as well as confocal microscopy.
Kerishnee Naicker, B.Sc. Research Specialist, Cytometry and Microscopy to Omics Facility, Carver Biotechnology Center |
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Prabhu academic foundation was laid with a BS and MS in Biochemistry from Madurai Kamaraj University and Bharathidasan University, respectively, in, India. Following this, he earned his PhD in 2011 from the University of Madras, exploring the impact of antioxidants on the early phases of neoplastic transformation in Mice and Rats. Upon starting in the USA, he assumed roles as a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in various research projects including, 1) Identifying the natural product deoxynyboquinone as a potent and personalized anticancer agent. 2) Characterization of novel immunomodulatory proteins encoded by parapox Orf virus. 3) Identification of Alpha herpesviruses (MDV) encoded proteins cause disease and transmit from host-to-host. At present, he serves as a Research Scientist position at the Cytometry to Omics Facility within the Carver Biotechnology Center at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Nagendraprabhu Ponnuraj, PhD. Research Scientist, Cytometry and Microscopy to Omics Facility, Carver Biotechnology Center |
