{"id":159,"date":"2024-09-20T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-20T18:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bridgecellculture\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:27:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T20:27:59","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/bridgecellculture\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to The Bridge Cell Culture Core!\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--featured-block image-left\"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--featured-block\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n  <div class=\"text-image-container\">\n    <div class=\"text-container\">\n\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--section-title\">\n\n    \n  <h2>\n           \n      <\/h2>\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n                  \n<div class=\"f--field f--description\">\n\n    \n  <p>Located in Michelson Hall Rm 360 the Bridge Cell Culture Core is a USC recharge facility specializing in supporting the Cell Culture needs of your research within the industry standards of BSL1 and BSL2.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"padding-bottom: 0.5em;\">Our areas of expertise include:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 2%; font-size: 115%;\"><strong>Baculovirus expression with insect cells (virus and frozen biomass)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 2%; font-size: 115%;\"><strong>Mammalian cell expression (virus and frozen biomass)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 2%; font-size: 115%;\"><strong>Plating of adherent cells (available for use in Core or for Pick Up)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 2%; font-size: 115%;\"><strong>Cell maintenance<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 2%; font-size: 115%;\"><strong>Cell Banking<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 2%; font-size: 115%;\"><strong>Mycoplasma testing<\/strong><\/li>\n<li style=\"padding-bottom: 2%; font-size: 115%;\"><strong>Cell culture lab set 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physical bioenergetics)<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Scott Fraser Labs in imaging and molecular analysis of intact biological systems<\/li>\n<li>Dr. Steve Kay in the composition and architecture of circadian networks in plants and animals<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Cell Culture Core Publications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nprot.2014.173\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Screening and large-scale expression of membrane proteins in mammalian cells for structural studies<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41589-024-01812-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Molecular mechanisms of inverse agonism via \u03ba-opioid receptor\u2013G protein complexes<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n      \n          <\/div>\n\n          <div class=\"image-container\">\n            \n<div class=\"f--field f--image\">\n\n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n    \n              \n      <img\n                            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