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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.
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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.
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Blog
Why the LSRII 4-12 had to go
We recently said good bye to the LSRII 4-12 and I wanted to say a few words about what happened. There are a some things to highlight here, as the retirement of these units is somewhat controversial in the field. BD had announced the end of their support of the model...
The Spectral Correction Hangover
Should I use cells or beads? This question is at the center of many discussions nowadays in the flow cytometry world. Beads were once lauded as the easy alternative to cells to prepare your compensation controls. But as more and more researchers look at their spectral...
EasyPanel V2 – What’s in it for you?
We had Omar Abouzid from EasyPanel to discuss the new developments that comes with version 2. I've been pretty happy with the tool so far, but I'm now very excited to see how the new antibody inventory system will work out. The panel design tool itself has a few new...
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-R
- Penteon 5-30
- Quanteon 4-25
- Fortessa 4-15
- Fortessa HTS 4-15
- Attune NxT 4-14
- Bigfoot
- Aria Fusion 5-18
- AriaIII
- Tyto
- Jonas Center Quanteon
- PME Fortessa
- PME Aurora
- Helios Mass Cytometer
- Image Stream MarkII
- Luminex 200
- MSD Quickplex SQ120
04/05/24 Fortessa 4-15 HTS issue: The pressure regulator seems to have failed and pressure on the samples is variable, causing all sorts of weird things. The instrument is not reliable and should not be used until further notice. We have contacted BD Tech support and will await a service engineer to schedule a visit.