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Winter Weather Announcement

All classes and activities at Kean Ocean will continue to be conducted remotely through Sunday, March 1, due to ongoing power issues.

This remote schedule applies only to Kean Ocean. Kean’s main campus in Union and Kean Skylands will operate as normal. 

Only essential personnel should report in person for work at Kean Ocean during this time. Employees with questions about their status should consult their supervisor.

Salvatore Coniglio, Ph.D.

Associate Professor
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The Coniglio Lab

Sal Coniglio, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Biology and Coordinator of the M.S. Biotechnology program at NJCSTM.  Coniglio’s laboratory seeks to understand the communication that occurs between tumor cells and normal cells within the microenvironment, cells of the myeloid lineage in particular. Coniglio discovered that the growth factor CSF-1 is secreted by high grade glioblastoma cells and plays a critical role in mediating disease progression.

Coniglio’s laboratory is currently investigating which factors cooperate with CSF-1 in “reprogramming” the microenvironment and potential therapeutic avenues to disrupt these pathways. Assays commonly employed in the laboratory include: quantitative PCR, SDS-PAGE electrophoresis, ELISAs, Immunofluorescence, Flow Cytometry and Sorting and 3D microenvironment simulation in-vitro.  Coniglio received his Ph.D. in Anatomy and Structural Biology from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in 2008.  He was an American Cancer Society Postdoctoral Fellow and is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research.