News and Events
We are introducing an updated training curriculum for new users. As of March , for utilizing our analyzers every new user must attend a 3-hour workshop that will consist of 1.5 hours of lecture and 1.5 hour of hands-on introduction at the cytometer. These introductions will take place on a fixed schedule on the 1st and 3rd Monday every month of 2025 at 9:15.
The first session will be on Monday, March 17th at 9:15 in HPL G22. If you want to attend the lecture as a “refresher” for your cytometry knowledge, also the existing users are welcome to join.
As of January 2025, the FCCF is hosting the BD FACSDiscover A8 – currently the only unit of this type in all of Europe! This analytical flow cytometer provides state of the art full spectrum cytometry with 5 spatially separated laser lines and 78 fluorescent detectors, and also an imaging component with three fluorescent detectors providing images for every cell measured. We will soon announce dates for a seminar introducing this novel technology. In the meantime, feel free to reach out to the FCCF team for further information at .
The Introduction to Flow Cytometry course ( 551-1700-00 V) will be offered at the ETHZ in the Spring Semester 2025 ( Feb-May 2025). The format is a lecture course enriched by a workshop, student presentations and a visit to the ETHZ Flow Cytometry Core Facility.
- Please contact us ( ) for any registration enquiries.
SCM 2025 program and registration
external page SCM 2025
Publication highlight in the journal “Nature” from our user base! We are excited to share the groundbreaking work led by Gabriel Giger, which has resulted in the development of a novel method for evolving artificially induced endosymbioses between fungi and bacteria. Over the past years, Gabriel, along with team members from the Flow Cytometry Core Facility and the Vorholt lab, has successfully established the sorting of fungal spores, a key step in this discovery.
We congratulate Gabriel and the entire team of Julia Vorholt on this success and are happy that the FCCF could support this work. Read more here:
The third edition of the Swiss Lunch Cytometry Program, giving you the opportunity to learn more about the Flow Cytometry and related technologies, starts in October 2024. Please save the dates and join the seminars at noon via Microsoft teams .
We are happy to announce the arrival of Bigfoot spectral cell sorter. This high-end, jet-in-air instrument is equipped with 7 lasers , 60 detectors, high- throughput plate deposition unit ( 96-, 384- and 1536- well plates, deep well plates) and a range of nozzle sizes (70um, 100um, 120um and 150um). It allows both acquisition and up to 6-way sorting on spectrally unmixed data or conventionally compensated data.
We have upgraded the Automated Sample Loader on the Cytek Aurora analyser. The important points concerning this change are:
- it can now handle 96-well plates as well as deep-well plates and a new 40-tube (5 ml) rack
- the samples are now mixed by vortexing. Thus, it is recommended not to overfill the wells to prevent spills, i.e. not more than 200ul per well in 96 well plates.
- In the software, you have an extended drop-down menu to select which type of acquisition format you like, and if you use plates, the software has now new options for how you want to mix it (speed of vortexing, how long to vortex, and after how many wells you’d like to vortex).
- Conveniently, because of the 40-tube rack you can prepare the cleaning tubes that are required for instrument shutdown and perform the cleaning-series (Clean/Water/Contrad/Water) automatically. However, you still need to press the “power-off” button afterwards.