Swiss Flow
Cytometry School

We were blessed to welcome 20 participants for our training program "Cytométrie Hématologique" in collaboration with the French association CytHem.

After several rounds of virtual trainings on leukemia and lymphoma diagnostics, we organized an on-site clinical course focused on MRD in ALL and AML.

We had a great time while learning basics of flow cytometry with participants coming from 3 different continents!

Our “Winter School of Cell Analysis in Immunology” organized together with Prof. Claude Lambert covered advanced immunological topics and various flow cytometry applications: conventional, full spectrum and mass cytometry. Participants had an opportunity to join wet labs, as well as to analyse data with different software: Kaluza, Cytobank, SpectroFlo, and Maxpar Pathsetter. Thanks to all experts that joined us and made this workshop exciting, and to Beckman Coulter Life Sciences, Cytek Biosciences and Standard BioTools for their support!

The third module of our CAS Flow Cytometry program for the academic year 2022/2023 has just ended. The participants have learned about multicolor panel design, compensation and setting pitfalls, harmonization and standardization of different flow cytometers, cell apoptosis, as well as about the basics of clinical cytometry used in hemato-oncology.

Multidimensional data analysis become more and more popular in flow cytometry field. We have organised a workshop to allow participants to get familiar with setting up a pipeline using the R, FlowJo and Cytobank, including key steps such as data preprocessing and transformation, automated identification of cell populations with the FlowSOM algorithm and differential analysis of sample groups.