Priority Research Area Chronic Lung Diseases
University Liaison Group Epigenetics of Chronic Lung Diseases
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Techniques
Molecular biology methods
- SDS-PAGE, Western blotting
- PCR, preparative agarose gels, qPCR
- Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP)
- Dot Blot
- Immunohistology
Genetic engineering methods (S1 and S2) and next-generation sequencing (NGS)
- E. coli protein expression
- Cloning vector design
- Lipofection
- siRNA
- dCas driven methyltransferases (under development)
- Pyrosequencing, RNA sequencing (pre-analytics)
- Spatial Methylomics
Data science
- Design of Experiments (DoE) layouts
- RNA-Seq analyses (differential expression, enrichments)
- DNA methylation analysis (differential methylations, eQTL)
- Cohort design and cohort analysis (cross-sectional, longitudinal)
Cell biology methods
- Primary cells & mammalian cell lines(?) culture(nasal epithelial cells, peripheral blood cells, wide range of lung cells)
- Air-Liquid Interface cultures
- Infections with human pathogens (e.g. rhinoviruses) or gene carriers (lentiviruses)
- 3D cell migration assay (SiMA)