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.
When the global pandemic hit and Chicago’s shelter in place orders prevented me from going into the lab, I started doing some experiments in my kitchen instead. I decided to take on baking sourdough bread (like many other quarantined individuals). And while I...
In the first post of the "bad data" series, I mostly discussed how to identify problems with cytometer settings and compensation by looking at the data plots. (Read that post here in case you missed it!) In this post I’d like to expand on that by going over common...
Two weeks ago I covered my red flags for identifying bad panel design (read that here if you missed it!). This week I’ll go over my red flags for experiment design, which mostly means controls. Controls are needed to be able to appropriately interpret experiment...
I have an unpopular opinion: I love compensation. Usually when I bring up compensation I’m met with a chorus of frustrated noises. But to me compensation is an opportunity to solve a complicated puzzle – and I really love a good puzzle. In this post I’m going to...
It's time to get back to the Bad Data series. I'll use a data set I had to troubleshoot for one of my users to illustrate the importance of cleaning your data. We mentioned FlowAI and FlowClean in the first installment of this series, and this post will hopefully...