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Hello all! It's my great pleasure to introduce Mr. Jacques Parker Leclerc to the world. This fine strapping 7.7 lbs boy was born on June 4th! Since then, his career has skyrocketed: he's been named employee of the month at the CAT Facility for the five last years...
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...
Flow cytometry equipment has improved quite a bit over the last few years and the CAT Facility aims at offering the best instruments available on the market. In the aftermath of the Flood of '21, we ended up replacing the irremediably damaged Fortessa X20 by a...
I didn't talk about it much, but amongst the instruments we lost in 2021 were our two ELISA plate readers. We honestly don't run that many of these, so I'm quite unclear on why we had two to begin with. At any rate, both broke down within the same month, just as we...
In some parallel universe, I may be an interwebs tour guide. WEIOTI is back! Here, someone made a mash-up of Cookie Monster signing Tom Waits. Recent Posts
The restoration work on the AriaIII is now complete! As I'm writing this, I'm performing the very first experiment this instrument has seen in over five years. It took a lot of effort to get here, and I wanted to share how everything went down, and why we made some...