- Adolescent Medicine
- Allergy / Immunology
- Cardiology
- Child Abuse Pediatrics
- Child Health Policy
- Critical Care
- Developmental Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- General Pediatrics
- Genetic Medicine
- Hematology/Oncology
- Hospital Medicine
- Human Genetics Laboratory
- Infectious Diseases
- Inherited Metabolic Diseases
- Neonatology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Palliative Care
- Pulmonology
- Rheumatology
- Sports Medicine
- Urgent Care
- Volunteer Faculty
Research Interest
Improving the care of children with cerebrospinal fluid shunt infections. Primarily through improved diagnostics and better understanding the mechanisms of neurologic damage associated with shunt infections.
- Cerebrospinal fluid shunt infection
- CNS infections
- CNS infection diagonstics
- Host-pathogen interactions
- Neuroimmunology
Current Funding
NINDS K08NS110923 , CHRI Pilot Grant
Lab News
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/myncbi/1TU-aZlejmukt/bibliography/public/
Lab Contact Information
Matthew Beaver, BS
Lab Manager
985900 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska 68198-5900
402-559-8533
Lab Manager
985900 Nebraska Medical Center
Omaha, Nebraska 68198-5900
402-559-8533
Lab Personnel
Gwenn L. Skar, MD, Assistant Professor, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Matthew Beaver, BS, Lab Manager
Lab Techniques
- Rodent models
- ELISA
- Multiplex
- Flow cytometry
- Confocal microscopy
- Synaptosome isolation
- Bacterial culture
- Adolescent Medicine
- Allergy / Immunology
- Cardiology
- Child Abuse Pediatrics
- Child Health Policy
- Critical Care
- Developmental Medicine
- Emergency Medicine
- Endocrinology
- Gastroenterology
- General Pediatrics
- Genetic Medicine
- Hematology/Oncology
- Hospital Medicine
- Human Genetics Laboratory
- Infectious Diseases
- Inherited Metabolic Diseases
- Neonatology
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Palliative Care
- Pulmonology
- Rheumatology
- Sports Medicine
- Urgent Care
- Volunteer Faculty