Experimental Techniques in Immunology

Course content

Introduction to current protocols in immunology, principles of experimental design to study an immunology related problem, introduction to animal models of infectious, inflammatory and autoimmune disease, animal models of transplantation and tumor immunology. Isolation of lymphoid cells from human and murine tissues and blood, principles of flow cytometry and its applications, proliferation and cytotoxicity assays, tetramer staining methods, ELİSA, ELİSPOT and cytometric bead array and adoptive cell transfer are among the major techniques that will be covered.