Learn the latest news about the CAT Facility and tips for learning flow cytometry. Feel free to share your opinion in the comments section of each post. The comment section will be moderated for tone and content.
The ChUG podcast is back! ChUG is an effort by the main flow core facilities in the Chicago area to promote flow cytometry and our own services, and the podcast is the venue that we use to discuss whatever we find interesting in Flowland. We took a one year break...
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...
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...
The main thing that struck me during the 2022 ChUG Cytometry Workshop held in November is the incredible amount of tools that were developed over the last few years to make of flow cytometry lives easier. Amongst them is the EasyPanel online algorithm that rapidly...
For the longest time, I've been very reluctant to suggest any freeware for flow data analysis. A lot of these solutions are not supported all that well, or are fairly complicated to use. But I saw a tweet over the Thanksgiving break about an online platform called...
I'm mad at myself. I remember seeing a bunch of tweets about something called AutoSpill back in 2021, and completely ignored it being the luddite that I am. But while preparing for the 2022 ChUG Workshop, I revisited the question and realized the errors of my ways....