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Videos and Webinars

• Multicolor Flow Cytometry: Setup and Design for the BD Accuri® C6 Flow Cytometer
• ‘Attune® Acoustic Focusing Cytometer: Flow Cytometry Reinvented’ Webinar
• How to isolate cells in 25 minutes with EasySep™
• Chromocyte’s consolidated resource of videos on the Basics of Immunology
• Check out the great ‘My Favourite Scientist’ video series – is yours there?
• Chromocyte Demonstration Videos

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’

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Top Tips

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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 and Engage with our Community. Come on, don’t be shy…..help us put together a useful and comprehensive resource for experimenters!

Core Facility of the Month

We would like to generate a database of Flow Cytometry Core 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 Malaghan Institute of Medical Research Flow Cytometry Suite in Wellington, New Zealand

Latest Employment Opportunities

• Assistant Professor Biological Imaging (USA)
• Post-Doc: Development of Mass Cytometry (France)
• iCyt Cytometry System Specialist (UK)
• Field Application Scientist - Flow Cytometry (Europe)
• Research Associate Flow Cytometry (USA)
• Product Marketing Manager – Flow Cytometry (USA)
• Assistant Editor (f/m) at the European Journal of Immunology(Germany)
• Technical Sales Specialist (BD Biosciences, UK)

View other positions that are available in Flow Cytometry and related areas or  have a look at our Tweeted Times Newspaper for constantly updated opportunities around the world. Why not see what’s out there…you never know?

Are you recruiting to a position? Then let us know so that we can list it.

Upcoming Courses and Events

2011

• The three Rs of innate immune recognition: Toll like receptors (TLRs), RIG-like receptors (RLRs) and Nod-like receptors (NLRs) (London, Sept 23, 2011)
• German / Italian Immunological Societies (Riccione, Sept 28 – Oct 1, 2011)
• ‘Inflammation & Cardiovascular Disease’ (Obergurgl, Sept 29 - Oct 2, 2011)
• Biology at the Interface (Kobe, Sept 29 – Oct 1, 2011)
• Analytical Cytometry VI (Prague, Oct 8-11, 2011)
• BIOTECHNICA 2011 (Hannover, Oct 11-13, 2011)
• Annual Conference of the German Society for Cytometry (Bonn, Oct 12-14, 2011)
• 'Innovative Strategies to Prevent Transplant Rejection’ (Sorrento, Oct 26-29, 2011)
• Discussion Workshop: Flow Cytometry (London, Nov 4, 2011)
• FloCyte Flow Cytometry Training Courses

2012

• Flow Cytometry Course (York, 24-27 Jan, 2012)
• Treg: Regulatory T Cells and T Helper Cells (London, March 30, 2012)

2013

• VI^th International Congress on Stress Proteins in Biology and Medicine (Sheffield, Aug 17-23, 2013)
• 15^th International Congress of Immunology (Rome, Aug 22-27, 2013)

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