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
Publications Every Flow Cytometrist Should Know About
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 if...
Notes from the ABRF 2022 meeting
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...
Introducing the Agilent Penteon 5-30
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 Penteon...
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.