Optimizing SRL Performance: Boost your Cell Sorting Capacity

Optimizing SRL Performance: Boost your Cell Sorting Capacity

Recorded On: 10/29/2015


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About the Presenter

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Rui Gardner, PhD
Head of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Rui Gardner’s scientific career began just before graduating with a BS in biochemistry in 1997, as a trainee in mathematical biology. This set the ground for his doctoral work, a mathematical approach to understand the prooxidative mechanisms of superoxide dismutase, paradoxically known as one of the most powerful physiological antioxidant enzymes. Most of the work was carried out in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Michigan but also at the University of Southern California and the Gulbenkian Institute of Science in Portugal. In 2004, Rui earned his PhD in biomedical sciences, followed by postdoctoral work on evaluating immune diversity estimation techniques. He became SRL Manager of the Flow Cytometry facility in 2006 at the Gulbenkian Institute of Science. Since 2007, Rui has been actively involved with ISAC’s SRL Task Force. In 2012 he was elected for ISAC’s Council, currently chairing the ISAC SRL Oversight Committee responsible for implementing and improving ISAC’s SRL-related activities and programs. Over the past several years, Rui has focused his efforts in addressing cell sorting performance based on the almost 10-year long experience running a cell sorting facility, as well as promoting meetings and discussions within the SRL community to help improve facility operations and management.  

Webinar Summary

In the first of a series of webinars addressing strategies to optimize operations and management in a Shared Resource Lab (SRL), we’ll focus on enhancing cell sorting capacity. Many sorting facilities struggle with the increased demand in usage. The typically limited installed capacity of droplet cell sorters, which is directly associated to the requirement of a dedicated operator, usually leads to a narrow range of solutions to increase this capacity. Strategies are most often reduced to buying a new instrument, implying an increase in the number of FTEs, or most likely increasing dramatically the burden of the current FTE, inevitably decreasing quality or SRL performance. With the advent of the new and more automated cell sorters, different and more creative solutions to increase cell sorting capacity are being addressed, including self-service sorting with all the implications associated to it. We’ll discuss several of these strategies, and present additional approaches to optimize usage of the current instrumentation, independent of their level of automation. These may include small technical implementations to reduce instrument setup, instrument troubleshooting guides, booking strategies to optimize resource usage, staggering shifts, or “on call” staff to assist sorts that cannot be scheduled within normal sorting hours. There is no general strategy that will fit all facilities as some of these approaches may even collide with institutional or country-specific policies. Nevertheless, our aim is to lay down some of the possible strategies, open a discussion towards addressing this issue in a systematic way, and hopefully inspire new creative solutions from peers.

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Optimizing SRL Performance Boost your Cell Sorting Capacity
Recorded 10/29/2015
Recorded 10/29/2015 CYTO U Webinar presented by Rui Gardner, Ph.D.
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