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
Howard Shapiro and the Bible of Flow Cytometry
05/24/24: I can't find Practical Flow Cytometry on the Coulter website anymore, but here is a link for something called the Internet archives where you'll find it. Dr. Howard Shapiro passed away in November 2021. When I started working in the Flow Cytometry Core...
PMT vs SiPM: A Photon Finish
With the recent addition of the NovoCyte Quanteon, the CAT Facility now employs instruments with three different classes of photodetector: Avalanche Photodiodes (APDs) on the Cytek Auroras, Silicon Photomultipliers (SiPMs) on the NovoCyte Quanteon and Penteon from...
What Else is on the Internets? – Kutiman
We're introducing a new segment called What Else is on the Internets? Every Friday, or whenever, really, we'll visit some fun, weird and hopefully interesting corner of the internets. It could be Flow Cytometry related, but it likely won't. We begin with Kutiman. I...
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.