Brent Palmer, PhD 

Director - Flow Cytometry 

Brent Palmer Ph.D. is Director of the ClinImmune Flow Cytometry and Bioarchiving Facility. Dr. Palmer has been the Director of the ClinImmune Flow Cytometry and Bioarchiving facility for over 10 years and has more than 30 years of flow cytometry experience. Dr. Palmer has over 70 publications in the field of clinical immunology and infectious disease and has worked directly with numerous academic and industry partners to provide Flow Cytometry and Bioarchiving services and consultation. Dr. Palmer is also a NIH funded Principle Investigator and an Associate Professor in the Divisions of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

303-724-7203 Brent.Palmer@cuanschutz.edu

Charles Preston Neff, PhD

Technical Director - Flow Cytometry

Dr. Charles Preston Neff, also known as Preston, serves as the technical director of the flow cytometry core facility. He received his PhD from Colorado State University and has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Colorado since August 2012 and then an Assistant Professor since March 2020. He has helped with many research-based flow cytometry experiments and is skilled in designing and optimizing panels as well as gating strategies for these types of experiments.

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Amy Noe, MS

Laboratory Manager

Amy is a Palmer’s lab manager responsible for the flow cytometry lab's regulatory management to maintain the CAP accreditations. Amy earned her M.S. in biotechnology and B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Amy joined the flow lab in 2021 and has many years of experience in basic research, preclinical, and clinical testing, including more than ten years of flow cytometry experience. Amy attended formal flow cytometry training courses at the National Institutes of Health. She received hands-on flow training from the Flow Cytometry Core at the Vaccine Research Center (the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases).  Amy also utilizes her flow cytometry skills to assist with ongoing research projects, clinical testing (and sorting), and flow core contract projects.

303-724-7196 AMY.NOE@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU

Min Zhang, MD

Clinical Supervisor

Min Zhang M.D. graduated from Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Science, Guangzhou, China. She received her Master of Philosophy degree in Molecular Biology and Diabetology from Hong Kong University. She is the clinical supervisor in the Flow Core Lab, the Allergy and Clinical Immunology at the University of Colorado – Anschutz. She has many years of professional experience in performing high complexity testing, including CD4 and CD8 counts for AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), Sort CD3, CD4, CD8, CD14, CD19, CD33, CD34 and CD56 positive cells for specific engraftment monitoring, CD34+ count, viability and %CD34+ of CD45+ cells. Additionally, she has flow cytometry skills to run clinical samples and analyze clinical data.

303-724-7210 MIN.ZHANG@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU

Dillon Flebbe

Flow cytometry core manager

Dillon is the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Flow Cytometry Core Manager. Dillon performs fluorescent cell sorting (FACS) on our cell sorters and training on our cell analysers for all our clients. After earning his B.S in Integrated Science and Technology, Biotechnology Concentration from James Madison University he spent 6 years at NIH’s Vaccine Research Center (VRC) where he honed his flow cytometry skills in VRC’s flow core headed by Steve Perfetto and overseen by Dr. Mario Roederer. He utilizes the core knowledge and experiences gained at the NIH to bring support to the users and clients of the Allergy and Clinical Immunology Flow Cytometry Core.

303-724-7211 <DILLON.FLEBBE@CUANSCHUTZ.EDU>