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.
Here's a quick note to showcase OMIPs, a library of optimized panels published in Cytometry part A. They are a collection of peer-reviewed multi-parameters panels that include a truckload of technical details. If you're looking for a shortcut in your panel design,...
Edit 01/16/24: I was just pointed to the Flow Cytometry subreddit, created by Daniel Vocelle at CSU. I have been missing out on it for all these years. I'm so old. It's more active than the Purdue list, and probably more useful at this point. I've been looking at...
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...
With the recent addition of the NovoCyte Quanteon, the CAT Facility now employs instruments with three different classes of photodetector: Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs) on the Cytek Auroras, Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) on the NovoCyte Quanteon and Penteon from...
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...
I've been thinking about brightness in flow cytometry lately. It's a simple enough concept, but it's one of these things where you start thinking about it and you may quickly get lost in the numerous moving parts. One could argue that what people really care about...