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.
Most users transfer their flow cytometry data from the server to their computer using the online portal. It's great, easy to access and doesn't fuss all that often. But it can be slow sometimes, and it caps data transfer at 10gb. Is there a better way to transfer...
David Leclerc | Jan 11, 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
In the next few weeks, we'll post about the newest flow cytometry equipment acquired in the CAT Facility. They include the ThermoFisher Bigfoot cell sorter, the Agilent Penteon, the Moxi V cell counter, and we'll say a few words about the upgraded plate loader on...
David Leclerc | Dec 3, 2021 | 0 Comments
Dr. Howard Shapiro passed away in November 2021. When I started working in the Flow Cytometry Core Facility in 2005, my new colleagues Ryan Duggan and James Marvin's knowledge of Flow Cytometry already towered over most. I rapidly figured that I needed to catch up...
David Leclerc | Dec 3, 2021 | 0 Comments
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...
Bert Ladd | Nov 22, 2021 | 0 Comments
We're introducing a new segment called What Else is on the Internets? Every Friday, or whenever, really, we'll visit some fun, weird and hopefully interesting corner of the internets. It could be Flow Cytometry related, but it likely won't. We begin with Kutiman. I...
David Leclerc | Nov 19, 2021 | 0 Comments
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