Swiss Flow
Cytometry School

The SFCS organised a two days workshop on modern computational methods and flow cytometry. Several experts gave lectures: Helena Todorov from Gent (Belgium), Françis Lacombe from Bordeaux (France), Hugues Jacquemin from Namur (Belgium), and Stéphane Maillet from the Mathematical Faculty of the Geneva University. 15 students attended and were introduced into FlowSom, t-SNE and other analysis tools for high dimensional data analysis.

Nicolas Arraud has been invited by the Romanian Association of Flow Cytometry to teach at the "Flow Cytometry Summer school" in Bucarest and to give a presentation at the annual congress of the Romanian association of Flow Cytometry.

In May 2019 the SFSC visited China and participated at a Cytometry Congress in Nangking and at a Cytometry course given at the China Headquarters of Beckmann&Coulter Corporation in Shanghai. The course was given for regular users of Cytometry and addressed a group of 20 participants. The course was highly appreciated and future courses in China and South East Asia are already planned.

Beckman Coulter Switzerland continues to actively support the Swiss Flow Cytometry School by providing a Navios machine for our teaching courses.

This state of the art IVD flow cytometer is equipped with 3 lasers (Blue, Red and Violet) and can measure up to 10 different channels simultaneously! Controlled by the Navios software (an updated version of CXP software) this flow cytometer, used by numerous diagnostics laboratories worldwide, can measure up to 30,000 cells per second.
Together with Kaluza Analysis software 1.2 it makes 10-color cytometry easily accessible to everyone and constitutes an ideal machine for our trainings.