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
FixYourFlowDepot
We recently launched a new YouTube channel to help us service our own equipment. You see, for the longest time, the CAT Facility has avoided purchasing service contracts for our equipment in order to make some very valuable savings. It does mean that the burden on...
Notes on GLIIFCA 2023
We're back from Madison where Everett and myself attended the GLIIFCA 2023 meeting. Mind you, I'm on the Board of Directors of that meeting so I'm a bit biased here. But it's a great meeting! It's only two days so the scientific content is distilled to its purest,...
Why the AriaII had to go
I had a discussion with our users about our cell sorters and the topic of the AriaII came up. It was removed from our roaster in 2022 and I realized I never explained what happened. Long story short, the AriaII was a victim of computer obsolescence. That sorter was...
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.