Flow cytometry laser

Flow Cytometry Core @ CHOP

The Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory provides access to state-of-the-art instrumentation and professional flow cytometry services to researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania. Our staff has extensive expertise in surface and intracellular staining, functional assays, complex multi-color flow analyses, and cell sorting.

Located in Suite 1207, Abramson Pediatric Research Center (ARC), 12th Floor.

CHOP Research Website · iLab Services & Scheduling

Instrument Status & Support

Check the current operating status of our instruments or let us know about an issue.

◉ Instrument Status Board ⚑ Report a Problem

Instrument Training Guides

Access training materials and workflows for our analyzers and sorters:

Aurora Analyzer Aurora CS CytoFLEX FACSAria FACSJazz FACSMelody LSR NovoCyte Opteon

Planning Tools

Choose the right instrument for your panel, and plan your cell sort before you book:

Choose an instrument

◆ Instrument configurations Lasers, filters, and detector assignments for all instruments. → ◆ Instrument Selector Shows which instruments in our lab can detect a set of fluorochromes. →

Plan a cell sort

◆ Cell sorting guidelines How to prepare your cells, choose a nozzle and a type of service, and reserve a sorter. → ◆ Sort time estimator How long to reserve a sorter, and how many cells to bring. →

New to these tools? Help explains how each one works.