About

ICR Flow Cytometry Facility

Please ensure that you have read and understood the relevant documents below regards the Flow Cytometry Facility & Services. If you have any enquiries related to ICR Flow Cytometry Facility, please contact the team via flowcytometry@icr.ac.uk and +44 20 8722 4340

  1. User Agreement – Flow Cytometry and Light Microscopy Facilities
  2. Facilities Acknowledgement Policy
  3. ICR Flow Cytometry Facility Team
  4. ICR Flow Cytometry Facility Website (Nexus)
  5. ICR Flow Cytometry Facility Website (Main)
  6. ICR Flow Cytometry Facility – RMS   
  7. Other Core Research Facilities at ICR

 

Location and Hours of operation  

HOURS LOCATION
  • Core Hours: Mon-Fri 9:00am-5:00pm
  • Cell Analyzer and Sony cell sorters:  24/7 access (post training)
  • Symphony S6 Cell sorting Services: Mon 2:00pm-5:00pm, Tue-Fri 10am-5:00pm
  • 0N20, ICR Flow Cytometry Facility, Chester Beatty Laboratories, The Institute of Cancer Research, 237 Fulham Road, London SW3 6JB

 

  • 0E13, ICR Flow Cytometry Facility, Brookes Lawley Building, The Institute of Cancer Research, 15 Cotswold Rd, Sutton SM2 5NG

 

Overview of Services: ICR Flow Cytometry Facility is based across both sites Chelsea (Chester Beatty Laboratories) and Sutton (Brookes Lawley Building). ICR Flow Cytometry Facility provides primarily the ICR community and external users with an essential scientific/technology platform (STP) that includes:

  • Instrument Training 
  • Cell sorting Service
  • Panel Design
  • Support with Applications and Assasy
  • Protocol Optimization
  • Data Analysis (FlowJO, FCS Express and Cytobank) and many more. 

 

 Important Links 

 iLab Booking Calendars

iLAB booking System & Information

 

 

Our Flow Cytometry Facility is Equipped with various instruments below

CHELSEA

  1. BD LSR II Cell Analyzer - Brochure (user operated) 
  2. BeckmanCoulter CytoFLEX LX Cell Analyzer - Brochure (user operated)
  3. BD Symphony A5 Cell Analyzer - Brochure (user operated) 
  4. Sony MA900 Cell Sorter - Brochure (user operated)
  5. BD Symphony S6 Cell Sorter - Brochure  (Facility staff operated, SERVICE ONLY)
  6. BD Rhapsody™ - Brochure (Facility staff operated + users

 

 SUTTON

  1. BD LSR II Cell Analyzer - Brochure (user operated) 
  2. Agilent NovoCyte Penteon - Brochure  (user operated)
  3. BD Symphony A5 Cell Analyzer - Brochure  (user operated)
  4. Sony SH800 Cell Sorter - Brochure  (user operated)
  5. BD Symphony S6 Cell Sorter - Brochure (Facility staff operated, SERVICE ONLY)
  6. cellenONE Please note that this system is mainly operated by Max Mossner (max.mossner@icr.ac.uk) and Caitlin Davies (caitlin.davies@icr.ac.uk). Please do contact max.mossner@icr.ac.uk for further enquiries including access,training,service,collaboration and other enquiries. 

 

FLOW CYTOMETRY USER GROUP 2024/25

This user group aims to provide feedback and discussion regards the Flow Cytometry user issues/enquiries. In addition, to also help with future planning and development of ICR Flow Cytometry Facility. This user group has members for each site representing various groups and departments and the list will be updated annually to reflect the changes.
 
Academic Lead: Dr. Astero Klampatsa
Head of Core Research Facilities: Dr. Tina Daviter
 
We are welcoming new members. Current members are:
 

  • CHELSEA: Catherine Coates | Christa van der Maarel  | Dragomir Krastev  | Emmanuel Patin  | Ernesto Lopez  | Federico Tidu  | Jacky Leung | Jadwiga Nieminuszczy | Kate Moore  | Katie Begg  | Malvina Seradj | Marjan Iravani | Sarah Bruestl  | Tanya Trakarnphornsombat  | Samantha George  | Sidonie Wicky John

  • SUTTON: Cecilia Roux | Chanthirika Ragulan  | Dawoud Dar  | Erik Wennerberg  | Farideh Miraki-Moud  | Florencia Secchiari  | Hannah Lawson  | Kate Liodaki | Magnus Dillon  | Martin Kaiser  | Nikki Sereesongsaeng | Ricardo Sainz  | Roberto Rota  | Yakinthi Chrysochoidou

 The feedback from our User Group Meeting will be valuable and essential for RICe Committee to ensure that our researchers are supported with essential Research Infrastructure and systems.

 

FluoroFinder: Integrated free online tool for panel design, sharing and purchasing antibodies/dyes. This tool has the configuration of all our instruments (ICR Flow Cytometry Facility) and also guides the user with brightness and spectral overlap/spillover to adjacent channels and helps desing better panel. 

Links and Useful Resources

  1. Worldwide Flow Talkshop
  2. Free Flow Cytometry software
  3. Mike Ormerod’s Flow Cytometry book
  4. Howard Shapiro's Flow Cytometry book
  5. Mario Roederer’s compensation pages
  6. Flow Cytometry tutorial
  7. Flow Cytometry tutorial
  8. Innova's Flow Cytometry Webinar
  9. Molecular Probes Flow Cytometry Webinar

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Contacts

Name Role Phone Email Location
ICR Flow Cytometry Facility
Core Research Facilities/Services
 
+442087224340
 
flowcytometry@icr.ac.uk
 
ON20/ON21 (Chelsea) and 0E17/13 BLB (Sutton)
 
Bhagyashree Satam
Research Assistant (Flow Cytometry)
 
+442034373645
 
bhagyashree.satam@icr.ac.uk
 
ON20/ON21 (Chelsea) and 0E17/13 BLB (Sutton)
 
Sitara Ballal
Research Assistant
 
+442034376975
 
sitara.ballal@icr.ac.uk
 
ON20/ON21 (Chelsea) and 0E17/13 BLB (Sutton)
 
Yuliya Semochkina
Senior Research Assistant
 
+447307394799
 
yuliya.semochkina@icr.ac.uk
 
ON20/ON21 (Chelsea) and 0E17/13 BLB (Sutton)
 
Shruti Daga
Senior Research Assistant
 
+442034376935
 
shruti.daga@icr.ac.uk
 
ON20/ON21 (Chelsea) and 0E17/13 BLB (Sutton)
 
Hira Ale
Flow Cytometry Facility Manager
 
+442034377041
 
hira.ale@icr.ac.uk
 
ON20/ON21 CBL (Chelsea) and 0E17/13 BLB (Sutton)
 

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