Reagents and Services at ATCC
The MR4 at ATCC acquires, authenticates, amplifies, preserves and distributes Plasmodium spp. cultures and related materials to registered users. These include but are not limited to parasites, antigens, oligonucleotides, antibodies and hybridomas, plasmid vectors, genomic DNAs, cDNAs, molecular libraries and defined library clones.

Vector Stock Repository at CDC
Under a subcontract with ATCC, the CDC Foundation supports the MR4 Vector Stock Repository, which supplies living and preserved laboratory cultured malaria vector mosquitoes to registered users.  The CDC insectary maintains Anopheline and related mosquito colonies and provides molecular and phenotypic testing of vector stock purity.  The CDC also coordinates a vector review committee which reviews and approves shipments of mosquito egg stock to registered vector laboratories with approved facilities.

Workshops
MR4 sponsors and conducts workshops and training opportunities to promote scientific and informatics technology transfer, and coordinates with other programs within NIAID's malaria research portfolio.  MR4 also designs and arranges workshops in response to the needs of the research community.

Information Dissemination
MR4 promotes reagent collection awareness and scientific support to the malaria research community through this web site, laboratory protocols manuals, and the annual MR4 malaria reagent catalog.  Reference manuals and the reagent catalog are freely available for download or distribution on CD by request.  MR4 also provides a schedule of conferences, workshops and meetings, postings of malaria-related positions available and links to related research resources on this site.  If you have malaria-related protocols, images or information, meeting events, positions available or community links you would like us to consider posting to the MR4 web portal, please email malaria@atcc.org.