Bridget manages the Stem Cell Sorting laboratory within the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures in Sacramento, California. After receiving her B.S. in Molecular Biology from the University of Wyoming, Bridget was offered an internship with the USDA Arthropod Borne Animal Diseases Research Lab in Laramie, WY.  That internship led to an offer to pursue a two year graduate program at the University of California, Davis, with support from a USDA student training grant. She was introduced to the advantages of flow cytometry during her graduate training in the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine where she used a two color approach to assess viral damage to vascular cells in ruminant animals. After working in the pharmaceutical industry with genetically engineered oncolytic adenoviruses, she returned to UC Davis to work under the direction of a team of flow cytometry experts from around the U.S. to develop standardized 9 color T cell immunophenotyping and cytokine response staining panels using differently configured cytometers. Through this work, Bridget developed expertise in multicolor reagent panel development, antibody conjugation techniques, and cytometer quality control and she has published manuscripts on reagent panel development and instrument validation in the journal Cytometry. Recently, she developed tissue staining and scanning techniques to identify T cells on the iCys laser scanning cytometer and provides training on this instrument for researchers at UC Davis. She has over 10 years of experience in flow cytometry, fluorescent reagent preparation, multicolor staining, data analysis and laser scanning cytometry.  She has attended multiple flow cytometry and imaging courses, including the Dartmouth Clinical Flow Cytometry Course and the Quantitative Imaging Symposium as well as specialized operator training courses for the LSRII analyzer, inFlux and Aria II GMP cell sorters and the iCys laser scanning cytometer.

You can reach Bridget at bmclaughlin@ucdavis.edu