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
Policy change about multiplexing
Our Luminex and MSD QuickPlex platforms are pretty neat. They allow users to look at several analytes of different kind using the smallest amount of bio fluid. If you run a lot of ELISAS or Westerns on different targets, you should definitely look into these...
Online flow training for beginners
Edit 01/16/24: I was just pointed to the Flow Cytometry subreddit, created by Daniel Vocelle at CSU. I have been missing out on it for all these years. I'm so old. It's more active than the Purdue list, and probably more useful at this point. I've been looking at...
Pricing increase for 2023-2024
Pricing for the CAT Facility services have increased by 3% for fiscal year 2023-2024. This is to allow us to align our prices with current inflation and keep the facility cost neutral. A notable exception is with FlowJo, which jumped to 54.25 - an 8.5% increase. This...
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.