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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...
The best things on LinkedIn come from YouTube. This is where I found this impressive off-the-cuff introduction to SRLs. That person is not at the UoC, and our CAT facility stands for something else. But yeah, a core dedicated to random advanced equipment sounds...
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...
There's a lot of information out there on the internet - some of it is good and some of it is not so good. Typically peer-reviewed publications are great, but if you're not familiar with the field it can be a bit tricky to navigate older publications and determine...
Laura and I attended the 2022 ABRF (Association of Biomolecular Resources Facilities) meeting. Laura's 'A Tale of Two Cytometry Platforms' on getting quality data in spectral flow was, in my opinion, the highlight of the meeting, and was very well received. She was...
Flow cytometry equipment has improved quite a bit over the last few years and the CAT Facility aims at offering the best instruments available on the market. In the aftermath of the Flood of '21, we ended up replacing the irremediably damaged Fortessa X20 by a...