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
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Blog
My 2025 To-Do List
I had a bunch of ideas of things I wanted to do in 2025 before the holiday break and now the I'm back in the lab, I'm realizing I'm forgetting a bunch of them! So before they are all gone, here is a list of what I want to do - and in some cases will need to do at some...
What Else is on the Internets? – Bluey
My son is a huge fan of Bluey! Can't get enough. Cries for 30min when we turn off the TV and say byebye Bluey. He likes to sing the intro song, but can never get the shoutout in time. His Mom! Dad! Bingo! are always too early or too late. I tried to help him at some...
Instrument service contracts and stakeholders
The ABRF group has kindly provided me with the recording of the service contract session form the April 2024 meeting in Minneapolis for the ChUG podcast. Here it is! One point of the discussion that stuck with me during the session is when a member of the audience...
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.