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.
05/24/24: I can't find Practical Flow Cytometry on the Coulter website anymore, but here is a link for something called the Internet archives where you'll find it. Dr. Howard Shapiro passed away in November 2021. When I started working in the Flow Cytometry Core...
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...
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...
The CAT Facility got flooded over the weekend and we want to provide as much up-to-date information about the situation and what we're doing about it. Feel free to reach out to us with any questions or concerns. Check back again here for the most recent updates....
Here's one for the Annals of Unpublishable Data. I wanted to see if using the unmixing algorithm on data acquired on traditional instruments would help resolving GFP and YFP without using a special filter set. Turns out it doesn't, and that's pretty sad. But if you...
I have an unpopular opinion: I love compensation. Usually when I bring up compensation I’m met with a chorus of frustrated noises. But to me compensation is an opportunity to solve a complicated puzzle – and I really love a good puzzle. In this post I’m going to...