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.
We had Omar Abouzid from EasyPanel to discuss the new developments that comes with version 2. I've been pretty happy with the tool so far, but I'm now very excited to see how the new antibody inventory system will work out. The panel design tool itself has a few...
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,...
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...
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...
Back in 2018, our Cytek Aurora was installed and Cytek came to campus for two days to train us on the instrument. It was all very exciting! A short time passed before researchers really started using the instrument and I was asked to design a panel. From what I...