Research Flow Cytometry Facility
Related Resources

Access Helpful Links, Tools, Meetings and Presentations

  • BD Biosciences Multicolor Flow Cytometry Tools − Several tools for flow cytometry education and panel design. 
  • Beckman Coulter − A website section dedicated to flow cytometry.
  • BioLegend Web tools − Tools for developing panels for multicolor assays.
  • ThermoFisher Flow Cytometry - A website section dedicated to flow cytometry.
  • Compensation Basics (Mario Roederer)
  • Fluorochromes/Fluorescent Proteins/Fluorescent Dyes

    The Ohio River Valley Cytometry Association (ORVCA) and the Research Flow Cytometry Core (RFCC) organize monthly meetings featuring lectures to educate and inform the local community on applications and products used in cytometry.  Email notifications are sent to users via the Research Flow Core email list and to non-RFCC users via the ORVCA email list.

  • BD Biosciences Horizon Guided Panel Solution - Tools for developing panels for multicolor assays.
  • BioLegend - Free web-based panel design tool.
  • Chromocyte - Free web-based panel design tool, reagent database and forum.
  • FluoroFinder - Free panel design software and reagent database. Visit the RFCC page to design panels specific to our instrument configurations. 
  • Current Protocols in Cytometry (online subscription through the Pratt Library at Cincinnati Children’s)
  • OMIPs (Optimized Multicolor Immunofluorescence Panels) – A publication type in Cytometry Part A to communicate complex reagent panels for interrogating phenotypic and functional characteristics of cell populations.
  • MIFlowCyt (Minimum Information about a Flow Cytometry experiment) A standard for outlining the minimum information required to report the experimental details of flow cytometry experiments.
  • BD Biosciences
  • BioLegend
  • ThermoFisher
  • Cytek – For spectral flow cytometry
  • Each year ORVCA and the RFCC organize the Imaging and Cytometry Research Day to bring education and awareness to the scientific community on cytometric applications and developing technologies.  Please visit the ORVCA website for more details.  For updates, sign up for the ORVCA email list.

  • Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories - A great resource for all things flow.
  • Visit the Signaling-Based Flow and Mass Cytometry Resource by the Nolan Lab at Stanford University
  • Visit the Confocal Imaging Core at Cincinnati Children's