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The CAT Facility YouTube channel is a mine of flow cytometry tutorials and software training videos. The most popular content was prepared by Laura Johnston in her days as the Associate Scientific Director, and her tutorials bring to the channel ~4500 visits per...
David Leclerc | Nov 4, 2022 | 0 Comments
Hello all! It's my great pleasure to introduce Mr. Jacques Parker Leclerc to the world. This fine strapping 7.7 lbs boy was born on June 4th! Since then, his career has skyrocketed: he's been named employee of the month at the CAT Facility for the five last years...
David Leclerc | Jun 5, 2022 | 13 Comments
The restoration work on the AriaIII is now complete! As I'm writing this, I'm performing the very first experiment this instrument has seen in over five years. It took a lot of effort to get here, and I wanted to share how everything went down, and why we made some...
David Leclerc | Jan 25, 2022 | 0 Comments
Let's not kid ourselves: 2021 was a challenging year for flow cytometry in the CAT Facility. We started out strong early on with most of our instruments available after a very long lockdown. But several sorter issues badly crippled the service, and a flood put half...
David Leclerc | Dec 14, 2021 | 0 Comments
PC issues can be a real showstopper in a flow core, and a humbling one at that. Even for those who spend much of their workweek maintaining and repairing complicated – and expensive! – flow cytometers, fixing an unresponsive keyboard or Blue Screen of Death can be...
Bert Ladd | Mar 3, 2021 | 0 Comments
Last week, the university conducted a vibration study by dropping 5000lb (2268kg) weights from 15ft (4.6m) in four locations near the CAT Facility Lab. In biology terms, that's like dropping a rhinoceros from the height of a giraffe. Why? No idea. But when life...
Bert Ladd | Nov 8, 2019 | 3 Comments
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