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 recently said good bye to the LSRII 4-12 and I wanted to say a few words about what happened. There are a some things to highlight here, as the retirement of these units is somewhat controversial in the field. BD had announced the end of their support of the...
David Leclerc | Dec 12, 2023 | 1 Comment
The former Director of the CAT Facility, Ryan Duggan, had a good thing going with a Google Group in cytometry, before Google decided to shut down that tool. He was hosting Google hangouts, called Cytometry on Air, to discuss all things flow cytometry, which...
David Leclerc | Oct 14, 2023 | 0 Comments
We recently launched a new YouTube channel to help us service our own equipment. You see, for the longest time, the CAT Facility has avoided purchasing service contracts for our equipment in order to make some very valuable savings. It does mean that the burden on...
David Leclerc | Oct 10, 2023 | 0 Comments
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...
David Leclerc | Mar 13, 2023 | 0 Comments
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...
David Leclerc | Mar 11, 2022 | 0 Comments
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...
David Leclerc | Feb 24, 2022 | 0 Comments
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