Coolers, scopes, sequencers: San Diego County opens new public health lab

Coolers, scopes, sequencers: San Diego County opens new public health lab

There is a reason behind every detail inside the county’s new $93 million public health lab, right down to the placement of each microscope. It might look like the scope sitting by a window in the new building’s parasitology suite was situated to give its user a sweeping view of the county’s Overland Avenue operations campus in Kearny Mesa, but lab director Jeremy Corrigan explains that the real reason goes much deeper. “Even though you don’t fe…