FloCyte is delighted to add Lora Barsky to our list of distinguished Associates!  She is the Director of Flow Cytometry for the Broad CIRM Center at USC and the USC/Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Southern California, and will be working with us on our Comprehensive Flow Courses and on our Stem Cell and project under way now. 

Lora received her Bachelors of Science in Biology from the University of California, Irvine. Early in her career, she spent two years as a technician at Specialty Laboratories, INC. preparing blood and bone marrow specimens for Leukemia/Lymphoma immunophenotyping and preparing breast biopsies for Cell Cycle Analysis.  Lora’s expertise in flow cytometry developed while serving as the Manager of Flow Cytometry for the Division of Research Immunology and Bone Marrow Transplant at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.  Working as the Lead Sort Operator for fourteen years, she assisted Principal Investigators who studied X-Linked Immune Deficiencies, Adult Stem Cell Biology, Gene Therapy, Red Cell Development, and Human Embryonic Stem Cell studies.  She is member of the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry and the Clinical Cytometry Society.

Lora is currently participating on the Education Committee for ISAC and has worked on the Isotype Control Task Force.  She was faculty for the ISAC2008 Introductory Flow Cytometry Course in Budapest, Hungary and also in Seattle at CYTO2010.  Lora has attended multiple flow cytometry and imaging courses, including BD Key operator courses for FACScan, FACSVantage, TurboSort Option, DiVa Option, FACSAria, FloCyte Regional Training Course for Multiparamter Compensation and Apoptosis, and the Roswell Clinical Course. 

Lora has experience working with the FACScan, FACSCalibur, FACSVange and DiVa FACSVantage, Aria I, Aria II, LSRII, Cyan ADP, Imagestream 100, and Arrayscan VTI.

You can reach Lora at lbarsky@usc.edu or (323) 442-7942