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
A few notes about the Aurora
There's a few items I'd like to share that may help users of the Aurora in the CAT Facility and elsewhere. 1 - The benefits of Cytek Cloud Cytek Cloud is an online platform that offers both a panel and SpectroFlo experiment builder tool. The Panel builder is very...
What else is on the internets? – CYTO 2023 in Montreal
CYTO is the grand annual flow meeting extravaganza where the greatest minds meet and drink and discuss all things PerCP. It happens to be in my home province this year, in the great city on Montreal, from May 20th to 24th! It should be a lot of fun and there is still...
ChUG Podcast: Flow Imaging – What’s going on??
The ChUG podcast is back! ChUG is an effort by the main flow core facilities in the Chicago area to promote flow cytometry and our own services, and the podcast is the venue that we use to discuss whatever we find interesting in Flowland. We took a one year break due...
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
Fortessa 4-15 issue 07/18/25 – Unstable fluidics, will impact signals coming from the 561nm and 640 nm lasers (PE, PECy7 / APC, APC-Cy7, etc). Signals from the 488nm and 405nm lasers are not impacted as much. We have contacted BD Tech Support, a service engineer should get in touch to schedule an on-site visit.