Welcome to the CAT Facility
Welcome to the Cytometry and Antibody Technology Core Facility
a Comprehensive Cancer Center Core
Cancer Center members should cite the Cancer Center Support Grant (P30CA014599) when publishing any work assisted by this core facility.
Welcome New Users!
Instructions for getting trained to use CAT Facility instruments and the available services can be found on our New User page. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the CAT Facility Staff.
Institute for Translational Medicine Core Facility Grant
The ITM wants to help you take advantage of core facility resources, awarding up to $5,000 to offset any costs associated with using one of UChicago’s Core Facilities.
Instrument Status
The CAT Facility staff works hard to ensure the instruments are working properly. In the event that there are ongoing issues with any of the instruments the status will posted at the bottom of this page.
Spectral Flow Cytometry
Get started in the spectral flow cytometry world
Blog
Cleaning up your flow data with algorithms – Bad data part 5
It's time to get back to the Bad Data series. I'll use a data set I had to troubleshoot for one of my users to illustrate the importance of cleaning your data. We mentioned FlowAI and FlowClean in the first installment of this series, and this post will hopefully...
News from FCS Express – making things simpler and better
Edit 05/07/23 - As of right now, FCS Express v7.18.0015 which does all the nice things listed below is available for download on the DeNovo Software website. I received a communication from FCS Express which made me very happy. If you're not completely familiar with...
What else is on the internets? – CYTO 2023 in Montreal II
Here's some more information about Montreal: the food is really good over there. While I was doing my Master's, we'd decide on which restaurant to visit by just looking at them. If it wasn't a chain, and looked fairly clean, we were pretty sure it would be awesome....
Instrument Status
See notes below if bars are yellow or red. Click on each instrument to access the instrument-specific page.
- No Issues 0%
- Minor issues 0%
- Can not be used 0%
- Aurora-B
- Aurora-G
- Aurora-R
- Penteon 5-30
- Quanteon 4-25
- Fortessa 4-15
- Fortessa HTS 4-15
- Attune NxT 4-14
- CytoFLEX LX 4-16
- Bigfoot
- Aria Fusion 5-18
- AriaIII
- Tyto
- Jonas Center Quanteon
- PME Fortessa
- PME Aurora
- Image Stream MarkII
- Luminex 200
- MSD Quickplex SQ120
04/18/25 Aria Fusion issue: The waste sensor is defective and will not allow us to run the instrument. We swapped the air compressor to the AriaIII and got that one going. BD has been informed of the issue and we are waiting for a visit from a service engineer.