News in the CAT Facility
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a Comprehensive Cancer Center Core
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Welcome New Users!
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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
Publications Every Flow Cytometrist Should Know About
There's a lot of information out there on the internet - some of it is good and some of it is not so good. Typically peer-reviewed publications are great, but if you're not familiar with the field it can be a bit tricky to navigate older publications and determine if...
Notes from the ABRF 2022 meeting
Laura and I attended the 2022 ABRF (Association of Biomolecular Resources Facilities) meeting. Laura's 'A Tale of Two Cytometry Platforms' on getting quality data in spectral flow was, in my opinion, the highlight of the meeting, and was very well received. She was...
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
- AriaII
- AriaIII
- Tyto
- Jonas Center Quanteon
- PME Fortessa
- PME Aurora
- Helios Mass Cytometer
- Image Stream MarkII
- Luminex 200
- MSD Quickplex SQ120
Aurora-B issue – While the top cover is closed, the signal on the FSC will periodically spread for a quick second. The QC beads look good and the instrument is otherwise working properly. We have reached to Cytek about the issue and are trying to identify the cause.
AriaII: The computer used to acquire the AriaII data crashed. We are exploring various options to get the instrument back as soon as possible. Edit 05/19 – We have been waiting on BD to send us a quote for a new computer for that AriaII, but there is some issues on their end that generates some delays. Hopefully, we’ll get things moving soon.