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
Introducing EasyPanel at the CAT Facility
The main thing that struck me during the 2022 ChUG Cytometry Workshop held in November is the incredible amount of tools that were developed over the last few years to make of flow cytometry lives easier. Amongst them is the EasyPanel online algorithm that rapidly...
A free analysis platform that’s actually fun to use!
For the longest time, I've been very reluctant to suggest any freeware for flow data analysis. A lot of these solutions are not supported all that well, or are fairly complicated to use. But I saw a tweet over the Thanksgiving break about an online platform called...
AutoSpill your compensation
Edit 01/05/24: I just stumbled across a short YT video from Dr. Liston where AutoSpil is described in more specific details. I'm mad at myself. I remember seeing a bunch of tweets about something called AutoSpill back in 2021, and completely ignored it being the...
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.