Aves Labs, Inc.

Located in Davis, CA, Aves Labs develops novel antibody reagents against neural-specific antigens and epitope tags to foster scientific progress in neuroscience and the molecular biology communities. Aves Labs was co-founded in 1995 by Gary Ciment and Fazilah Adam. At the time, Dr. Ciment was a professor of Cell Biology at Oregon Health & Sciences University, and his laboratory was having trouble finding competent and reliable companies that made chicken polyclonal antibodies on a custom basis. He was trying to make an antibody against a highly-conserved mammalian gene product, and neither rabbits nor mice were yielding useful antibodies against the human homolog, presumably due to the high degree of sequence homology.