Education & Useful Links
Online Tutorials
Flow Cytometry Tutorials from Invirtrogen. Several helpful sections, especially Tutorial 4 which has useful animations on how the inside of a cytometer operates.
Flow Cytometry Tutorials from BD. More helpful animations, along with online tutorials on some of the instrumentation AMREP flow houses on campus.
Compensation: An informal perspective - from Mario Roederer, co-author of Flow Analysis software Useful reading for understanding what compensation is, why we do it and useful tips for identifying if data is over or under compensated.
Purdue University Cytometry Lecture Slides. The Flow Cytometery series of slides are half way down the page. Site maintained by J. Paul Robinson, a senior figure in the Flow Cytometry world.
Fluorescence Spectra Viewers
Online tool for determining excitation, emission and potential spill over when designing experiments.
Invitrogen's Fluorescence Spectra
BD's Fluorescence Spectrum Viewer
Online Literature
Practical Flow Cytometry, 4th Edition (made available via Beckman Coulter website) Written by Howard Shapiro, widely regarded as one of the gurus of Flow Cytometery. Howard's book is comprehensive yet writes about complicated subjects in simple language. Highly recommended are chapters on
Washington State University's Taxonomic Key Program. Comprehensive information on many cell markers used in Flow cytometry.
Cytometry - The Journal for the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry.
Flow Cytometry in Melbourne
The following are only some of the Flow Cytometry Labs based in the Melbourne area. Links are provided to their sites as they all contain useful information on education and training, and all hold different instrumentation that may be more specifically useful to your experiment.
Flowcore - Located at Monash University Clayton Campus.
WEHI Flow Cytometry - Located at The Walter & Eliza Hall Instiitue at Parkville
Peter Mac Flow Cytometry - Located at the Peter Mac Institiute in East Melbourne
Murdoch Children Research Institute - Located at Royal Children's Hospital at Parkville
Melbourne University - Located in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, part of the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Melbourne Campus
Monash Medical Centre - Located in the Department of Clinical Immunology, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton
