2nd Edition
Making and Using Antibodies A Practical Handbook, Second Edition
Antibodies; Matthew R. Kaser and Gary C. Howard
Antigens and Adjuvants; Paul Algate, Jory Baldridge, and Sally P. Mossman
Production of Polyclonal Antibodies; Lon V. Kendall
Purification and Characterization of Antibodies; Joseph P. Chandler
Production of Monoclonal Antibodies; Kathleen C. F. Sheehan
Quantitative Production of Monoclonal Antibodies; David A. Fox and Elizabeth M. Smith
Making Antibodies in Bacteria; Frederic A. Fellouse and Sachdev S. Sidhu
In Vitro Selection of Aptamers; Tianjiao Wang, Xiangyu Cong, and Marit Nilsen-Hamilton
Chemical and Proteolytic Modification of Antibodies; George P. Smith
Western Blots and Other Applications; Lee Bendickson and Marit Nilsen-Hamilton
Immunohistochemical Methods; José A. Ramos-Vara
Immunoelectron Microscopy; Sara E. Miller and David N. Howell
Flow Cytometry; Steven B. McClellan
ELISAs; John Chen and Gary C. Howard
Humanization of Antibodies; Juan Carlos Almagro, Sreekumar Kodangattil, and Jian Li
Antibodies in the Future: Challenges and Opportunities; Gary C. Howard and Matthew R. Kaser
Index
Biography
Matthew R. Kaser, DPhil, earned his DPhil in biochemistry from Oxford University (UK) in 1988. After postdoctoral positions at the University of California, the University of Texas, and at REI Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, he was appointed to a faculty position at the University of California, San Francisco, Department of Pediatrics, then served as a scientist and patent agent at Incyte Genomics in Palo Alto, California, and a lecturer at California Sate University East Bay, Hayward. Dr. Kaser has been practicing as a patent agent since 1999, was associate director of intellectual property at Mendel Biotechnology, Hayward, and is a senior partner at Bell & Associates in San Francisco. He has presented research papers at a number of regional, national, and international conferences and coauthored more than a dozen publications.
Gary C. Howard, PhD, earned his PhD in biological sciences from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979. He completed his postdoctoral training at Harvard University and The Johns Hopkins University and was a research assistant biochemist at the University of California, San Francisco. He then joined Vector Laboratories in Burlingame as a biochemist and Medix Biotech (a subsidiary of Genzyme) in Foster City, California, as chemistry manager and operations manager. Currently, he is manager of scientific editing at The Gladstone Institutes, a private biomedical research institute affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco.
