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
ABRF 2024 – Service contract session: some thoughts
Edit 04/23/24 : The Service Contract session was well attended and I'm very grateful to everyone who joined us for the discussion. I want to thanks the panelists Roy Martin, Brooke Ben Massani, and Julie Auger. Their contributions were incredibly insightful! And a...
Somewhat of a mea culpa
The latest ChUG podcast is out where we discuss a number of topics. But I wanted to revisit the unmixing with beads issue that we discussed in a previous post. So it turns out beads create unmixing matrix that do not correct spectral artifacts completely. I'm guessing...
What on earth is CaviCon?
Earlier today, Mike blasted an email about how the CAT Facility is ditching bleach for the cleanup of its instruments. We're now going to use something we call CaviCon! Sounds like something that wants to punch Optimus Prime in the face (I learned English watching...
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.