Our course curriculum will cover the following topics:
 

Session I

Introduction

 

 

 

what is it, not how it works.... yet

   

Session II

Principals of Instrumentation

 

 

Concepts of the Instrument

 

 

 

Practical I

Discovering the cytometer -

 

 

tour of the Instrument

 

 

Instrument Layout / Spectra site

 

 

 Filters and Lasers exercise

Session III

Fundamental Principals I

 

 

Antibodies

     
Session IV Fundamental Principals II
    Fluorochromes

 

 

 

Session V

Fundamental Principals III

 

 

Compensation -

 

 

 

Practical II

Compensation and Fluorchromes

    Basics of Compensation Worksheet
    Instrument vs manual compensation demonstration

Session VI

Fundamental Applications I

    Immunology

 End Day 1

      

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session VII

Compensation

 

 

 

 

How to do it correctly

 

 

 

Measurement Error

 

 

 

Hardware VS Software

 

 

 

Bi-exponential Scaling

 

Practical III Compensation Exercise  
    Understanding the spread o f Data  

 

 

 

 

Session VIII

Cytometry Controls

 

 

 

 

 

Session IX

Staining and Antibodies

 

 

 

The process

 

 

 

Titration and Stain Index

 

     

Session X

Fundamental Applications II

 

 

 

Cellular and DNA applications

 

       

 

 

 

 

 Practical IV

Staining Index and Titration Exercises

 

       

 Practical V

Instrument Demonstration

 

    For Novices  

Session XI

Instrument Characterization

 

 

 

For the instrument and core managers

 

 

 

 

 

Session XII

Fundamental Applications III

 

 

 

 Bacteria, Plants and non mammalian flow

 

     

Session XIII

Data Analysis Basics and Gating

 

 

 

 

 

 End Day 2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session XIV

Fundamental Applications IV

    Sorting and Advanced Topics
     

 Session XV

Statistics

 

   
 Practical VI Data Analysis and Statistics Demonstration
   
   

Session XVI

Optimizing your experiments

 

  with Controls and characterization

 

 

 

Session  XVII

Strategies for Building

 

 

Design Process / Biological hypothesis

 

 

Antibody/Fluor combinations

 

 

Necessary, Important and Luxury Markers

 

 

instrument configurations

 

 

 

Practical VII

Practice Designing Experiments

 

 

10 color experiment examples

 

 

Interactive Problem solving exercise

     
Session XVIII Presenting Good Data
Practical VIII   and Practice doing that

 

 

 

Session XIX

Troubleshooting

 

 

 What to do IF....

 

Q&A

 

   End Day 3

 

Mario's Questions on Good Data

 


                                  

 

Manual also includes
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    Protocols, Bibliographies,  and Information Sources
    Where to go from here
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