Advanced Flow Cytometry

This course will expand into advanced areas such as leading-edge applications and expansions of current technology, including high-throughput screening, advanced multiparameter analysis, spectral technologies, cell sorting and clinical and environmental (microbial) applications. This course will provide the audience with a strong background level of understanding of the technology, current limitations and future opportunities.

Who Should Attend?

• Those interested in expanding their knowledge in general analytical tools
• Sales and marketing people in competing fields.
• Scientists who are interested in developing new knowledge

Course Benefits

• This course will equip attendees with a solid core knowledge in flow cytometry

Course Topics

• High-throughput flow cytometry
• Functional assays
• Receptor binding and occupancy
• Multiplexing
• Extracellular vesicles and other small particles
• Spectral flow cytometry
• Computation and informatics

Instructors

J. Paul Robinson, Ph.D.
Purdue University

J. Paul Robinson is the SVM Professor of Cytomics and Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue University. He has been involved in developing and using flow cytometers for over 35 years. For the past 27 years he has been teaching graduate courses in the field and has edited nine books focused on flow cytometry technologies. He is also the editor in chief of Current Protocols in Cytometry.

John Nolan
Scintillon Institute

John Nolan is a Professor at the Scintillon Institute, where his group develops new cytometry instrumentation and applications. He was previously Director of the National Flow Cytometry Resource and is on the editorial boards of Cytometry and Current Protocols in Cytometry. He regularly teaches on cytometry topics via short courses and webinars and helps lead CYTO University, the online education effort of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC).