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.
Should I use cells or beads? This question is at the center of many discussions nowadays in the flow cytometry world. Beads were once lauded as the easy alternative to cells to prepare your compensation controls. But as more and more researchers look at their...
We had Omar Abouzid from EasyPanel to discuss the new developments that comes with version 2. I've been pretty happy with the tool so far, but I'm now very excited to see how the new antibody inventory system will work out. The panel design tool itself has a few...
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...
Here's a quick note to showcase OMIPs, a library of optimized panels published in Cytometry part A. They are a collection of peer-reviewed multi-parameters panels that include a truckload of technical details. If you're looking for a shortcut in your panel design,...
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...
We're back from Madison where Everett and myself attended the GLIIFCA 2023 meeting. Mind you, I'm on the Board of Directors of that meeting so I'm a bit biased here. But it's a great meeting! It's only two days so the scientific content is distilled to its purest,...