Services

The FCP staff offers assistance with:

• Experimental design for specific applications
• Selection and setting up of the required instrument
• Acquisition, analysis and interpretation of the data
• Cell sorting

Analysis

• Involves using a flow cytometer to interrogate cells stained with fluorescent markers and classifying them into groups. Cells pass through the instrument once and go straight to the waste.
• There is no cell recovery.

Cell sorting

• Involves using a flow cytometer with cell sorting capability to interrogate cells stained with fluorescent markers, classifying them into groups, and then physically separate the groups into test tubes or multi-well plates.
• A fraction of the starting population defined by the gating strategy is recovered and the remainders of cells go to a waste container.