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title: "On-Demand Webinar:  Nested Isolation: A Low-Cost Housing Strategy to Boost Microbiome Research Capabilities"
description: Nested isolators make germ-free and gnotobiotic research more accessible by dramatically reducing the cost and challenges of germ-free housing.
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# ON-DEMAND WEBINAR Nested Isolation: A Low-Cost Housing Strategy to Boost Microbiome Research Capabilities

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Germ-free and gnotobiotic housing can be expensive to maintain, limiting its accessibility and hindering research in critical fields.

 What if you could run your own gnotobiotic research colony for a fraction of the cost and labor, while achieving faster results?

## Nested Isolators: A Low-Cost Gnotobiotic Housing Strategy

Nested isolation – or NesTiso – is a technique that not only delivers the same results as a full gnotobiotic core, but with commonly accessible equipment and dramatically improved usability. We’ll show you how it works in this free Taconic Biosciences webinar.

 Watch On-Demand and you will learn:

- How NesTiso makes gnotobiotic research simple and practical
- How to inexpensively verify the germ-free status of your models
- How the portability of NesTiso systems accelerate gnotobiotic research

## Presenter

**Alexander Rodriguez-Palacios, DVM, MSc, DVSc, PhD**  
Asst. Professor, Division of Gastroenterology & Liver Disease, Dept of Medicine  
Technical Director, Mouse Models Research Core  
Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

![michael hayward, PhD, Presenter of Comparing Substrains in DIO Mice](https://info.taconic.com/hs-fs/hubfs/michael-hayward.jpg?width=185&height=185&name=michael-hayward.jpg)Dr. Rodriguez-Palacios is both a clinician and research director. He is a board-certified veterinary internist and clinical microbiologist and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.

He is the Technical Director of the mouse models core at the Silvio O Conte Cleveland Digestive Diseases Research Core Center and the Director of the Germ-Free and Microbiome Core at the Digestive Health Institute at CWRU.

He is currently researching animal models of intestinal inflammation, the role of diet and microbiome in disease severity and prevention, and methods for assessing the 3-D architecture of inflamed intestinal tissues, while working to define the genomic features of Crohn’s disease-like ileitis in mouse models.

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