Welcome to the Cytometry and Antibody Technology Core Facility
a Comprehensive Cancer Center Core
Cancer Center members should cite the Cancer Center Support Grant (P30CA014599) when publishing any work assisted by this core facility.
Welcome New Users!
Instructions for getting trained to use CAT Facility instruments and the available services can be found on our New User page. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the CAT Facility Staff.
Institute for Translational Medicine Core Facility Grant
The ITM wants to help you take advantage of core facility resources, awarding up to $5,000 to offset any costs associated with using one of UChicago’s Core Facilities.
Instrument Status
The CAT Facility staff works hard to ensure the instruments are working properly. In the event that there are ongoing issues with any of the instruments the status will posted at the bottom of this page.
Spectral Flow Cytometry
Get started in the spectral flow cytometry world
Blog
Spectroflo 3.1 released and installed
Cytek released an updated version of the Spectroflo acquisition software and we had it installed successfully on the Auroras in our facility. We're now at Spectroflo 3.1.0! Welcome to the future. Users can expect some minor improvements including: Increased max number...
The CAT Facility is hiring
It's incredibly gratifying to see former members of my staff at the CAT Facility succeeding somewhere else in flowland! Laura Johnston is rocking it at Cytek, and now Bert Ladd has been hired as the new managing director of the Loyola Flow Cytometry Core Facility here...
Instrument Status
See notes below if bars are yellow or red. Click on each instrument to access the instrument-specific page.
- No Issues 0%
- Minor issues 0%
- Can not be used 0%
- Aurora-B
- Aurora-R
- Penteon 5-30
- Fortessa 4-15
- Fortessa HTS 4-15
- Attune NxT 4-14
- LSRII 4-12
- Bigfoot
- Aria Fusion 5-18
- AriaIII
- Tyto
- Jonas Center Quanteon
- PME Fortessa
- PME Aurora
- Helios Mass Cytometer
- Image Stream MarkII
- Luminex 200
- MSD Quickplex SQ120