Virtual Immunology Lab

Looking for a supplemental hands-on activity with the immune system in your course?

Try the FREE online interactive Immunology Virtual Lab from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.

It covers these concepts:

• The basis of humoral immunity 
• The foundation for ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay)
• Potential errors in conducting an ELISA
• Sensitivity and specificity of a diagnostic test

What can we use from this in teaching undergraduate A&P?

• Link to this virtual lab activity from your online syllabus, course web page, or LMS (or in an email  or tweet to students)
• If you want to give course points for the lab, consider an online quiz or lab report submitted through your learning management system (LMS) or emailed to you.
• Gives students a "real life" clinical lab application for the concepts they are learning in A&P.
• Provides an immunology lab option for online/hybrid courses or wet labs that don't have funding for immunology experiments.

Want to know more?

Immunology Virtual Lab

• BioInteractive. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Accessed 16 Sep 2014.
• This virtual lab teaches the procedures of performing an ELISA test to determine whether a particular antibody is present in a patient's blood sample.
• my-ap.us/YPWv3f

ELISA

• MedlinePlus. National Library of Medicine. Accessed 16 Sep 2014
• Brief overview of what ELISA is.  You can link your students to this as a brief intro to the virtual lab.
• my-ap.us/1o1dVjg

BioInteractive Virtual Labs

• BioInteractive. Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Accessed 16 Sep 2014.
• List of all the FREE virtual labs offered by HHMI's BioInteractive project.
• my-ap.us/1wAX92q

Immunity Topics

• Kevin Patton. The A&P Professor. Various dates.
• List of previous blog posts on the topic of immunity.
• my-ap.us/XdWVyO