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.
I had a discussion with our users about our cell sorters and the topic of the AriaII came up. It was removed from our roaster in 2022 and I realized I never explained what happened. Long story short, the AriaII was a victim of computer obsolescence. That sorter was...
At some point many years ago, my former boss told me I needed a Twitter account for the CAT Facility. As someone who was happily living outside of the social media sphere, I was a bit annoyed at the prospect. But we did anyway, and used the tool to announced our...
It's this time of the year where we need to renew the FlowJo site license. With the new Portal system made available in 2020, users have a better handle of their own account. But let's be honest: if you managed to defend your thesis and are preparing the next steps...
There's a few items I'd like to share that may help users of the Aurora in the CAT Facility and elsewhere. 1 - The benefits of Cytek Cloud Cytek Cloud is an online platform that offers both a panel and SpectroFlo experiment builder tool. The Panel builder is very...
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...
Hello! I wanted to take some internet bandwidth to introduce myself to everyone. My name is Everett, and I am the Scientific Associate Director for the CAT facility. I received my bachelors from Marquette University, and my doctorate from the University of...