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FLOW FOCUS - News and New Technology from the world of Flow Cytometry

Welcome to the June 2011 issue of FLOW FOCUS. We had a wonderfully busy time at CYTO2011….it was great to see so many of you at our Booth and put faces to email addresses! We hope that you enjoyed our demonstrations and that you will continue to use Chromocyte and ‘spread the word’.
 
Please feel free to suggest content and / or have your activities listed here and on our website. www.chromocyte.com or just Google Chromocyte……
 
‘Research is to see what everybody else has seen, and to think what nobody else has thought’ Albert Szent-Györgi (1893-1986) U. S. biochemist

Latest News

  • EMD Millipore now offering a 30% discount on its flow cytometry kits and reagents – click here for more details

  • EXBIO is offering 25% and 40% discounts on its 25 test vials of antibodies…..but hurry as the offer ends on July 31st! This is a great, cost effective way to finance a student project and / or generate those crucial preliminary data – click here for more details

  • Looking for some new ways to detect apoptosis and / or cell death? Then see what our newest Sponsor has to offer by clicking here

  • Download Biolegend’s new brochure on Low Endotoxin, Azide-Free (LEAF™) Biofunctional Antibodies here

  • Check out the great ‘My Favourite Scientist’ video series – is yours there?

  • eBioscience has just released a Spectra Viewer which covers a wider range of fluorophors – click here to access this new resource

  • Need antibodies for non-human primates? Then click here

  • Get all of the latest flow cytometry-related Twitter traffic here

Subtle differences in the proliferation of the neutrophil and monocytic lineages in reactive and normal bone marrows have been identified by Matarraz, et al (Cytometry B 2011; advanced online publication) using Biostatus supravital DNA dye DRAQ5Ô . Click here for more details.
 

 

 

 
 
     
  New to Flow Cytometry?…..Is Flow Cytometry a mystery to you?

Then why not have a look at our new ‘Beginner’s Guide to Flow Cytometry’ which has been developed in conjunction with Innova Biosciences, the company that produces Lightning-Link™: The World's Easiest to Use Antibody Labeling Kits

Having trouble making sense of your data? Then why not have a look at the data analysis software options that are out there by clicking here

     
 

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Top Tips

  1. Find antibodies that are suitable for your flow cytometer configuration HERE

  2. Find antibodies for ANY application HERE

  3. Join our unique online Community and share your experiences HERE

  4. Access our Product Focus pages HERE

Fancy a Laugh? Then why not check out Biocompare’s Funny Science Videos or the ‘My Favourite Scientist’ video series – is yours there?

     
 

Get Interactive: Join the Chromocyte Online Community

Having problems with your experiments or understanding your data? Need help and/or some expert advice? Do you have a new technique or found a solution to a problem that you would like to share? If any of these are applicable, then why not Register with Chromocyte HERE and engage with our community HERE. Come on, don’t be shy…..help us put together a useful and comprehensive resource for experimenters!

  Product Focus: EXBIO

Have you heard of EXBIO? EXBIO entered the antibody market as a spin-off company from the Czech Academy of Sciences in 1990. They manufacture a wide range of antibodies and assay kits. These include kits for the detection of apoptosis, the examination of IgE-mediated allergic reactions (BasoFlowEx® Kit), the examination of phagocytic activity of granulocytes (FagoFlowEx® Kit) and sperm analysis (SpermFlow Kit) to name but a few. EXBIO also offers a number of custom services such as custom conjugation, monoclonal and polyclonal antibody production and hybridoma development.

 

 

They are certainly worth considering as a source of your reagents, especially now that they are offering large discounts on their 25 test vials of antibody (3 vials; 25% discount: 5 vials; 40% discount). But hurry as this offer ends on July 31st 2011! Quote SLV381 on all orders.

Click HERE for more details.

  Core Facility of the Month

We would like to generate a database of Core Flow Cytometry Facilities and Feature a Facility in every E-Newsletter. If you would like your details to be included, then please email us (contact@chromocyte.com) your link so that your details can be added to the site and highlighted in FLOW FOCUS.

This month’s Core Facility is the Duke Human Vaccine Institute Research Flow Cytometry Facility in the USA – click here

 

  Latest Employment Opportunities

Assistant Editor (f/m) at the European Journal of Immunologyclick here
Research Specialist in Flow Cytometry (UNC Chapel Hill, USA) – click here
Intern – Flow Cytometry Verification and Validation at Life Technologies (Oregon, USA) – click here
Flow Cytometry Applications Specialist (BD Biosciences, UK) – click here
Flow Cytometry Coordinator (London, UK) – click here
Technical Assistant, Core Flow Cytometry Facility (University of Bonn) – click here
Flow Cytometry Officer (Cambridge, UK) – click here
Technical Sales Specialist (BD Biosciences, UK) – click here

To view other positions that are available in Flow Cytometry and related areas click HERE and HERE. Why not see what’s out there?

Are you recruiting to a position? Then let us know so that we can list this – click here

  Upcoming Courses and Events

FOCIS 2011 (Washington, USA, June 23-26) – click here
flowcytometry UK 2011 (York, UK, July 19-20) – click here
Stress Responses in Biology and Medicine (Québec, Canada, Aug 21-25) – click here
7th European Course on Clinical Cytometry (Dublin, Ireland, Sept 13-14) – click here
German / Italian Immunological Societies (Riccione, Italy, Sept 28 – Oct 1) – click here
Inflammation & Cardiovascular Disease (Obergurgl, Austria, Sept 29 - Oct 2) – click here
Analytical Cytometry VI (Prague, Czech Republic, October 8-11) – click here
Annual Conference of the German Society for Cytometry (Bonn, Germany, Oct 12-14) – click here

Click HERE to see more listings and let us know of any meetings you would like us to include on Chromocyte and list here

     

In this issue...

New to Flow Cytometry?
New to Chromocyte?

Get Interactive
Product Focus
Core Facility of the Month
Latest Employment Opportunities
Courses and Events


 

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