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 the BioLegend mini-ELISA plate reader
I didn't talk about it much, but amongst the instruments we lost in 2021 were our two ELISA plate readers. We honestly don't run that many of these, so I'm quite unclear on why we had two to begin with. At any rate, both broke down within the same month, just as we...
What Else is on the Internets? – CookieWaits
In some parallel universe, I may be an interwebs tour guide. WEIOTI is back! Here, someone made a mash-up of Cookie Monster signing Tom Waits. Recent Posts
The New Old AriaIII
The restoration work on the AriaIII is now complete! As I'm writing this, I'm performing the very first experiment this instrument has seen in over five years. It took a lot of effort to get here, and I wanted to share how everything went down, and why we made some of...
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.