SRL Best Practices, Part 7: Staffing

About the Presenters

Matt Cochran
Technical Director
URMC Flow Cytometry SRL

Matt Cochran is the technical director of the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry (URMC) Flow Cytometry SRL. The lab contains eight traditional analytical flow cytometers, two cell sorters, an Image Stream X imaging cytometer, and a CyTOF mass cytometer. It serves the upstate NY region from Buffalo to Ithaca. Matt began his career in flow cytometry in 2004 at the Rochester Human Immunology Core Lab, where he managed an 8-color LSRII.. He has experience with many traditional and non-traditional cytometers and a wide variety of applications, including large-scale immunophenotyping and panel design. In addition to the Rochester cytometry training program, which he’s been running for around eight years, he’s been teaching and consulting nationally for a number of years. Matt is also a member of the ISAC Shared Resource Laboratory Task Force, the ABRF flow cytometry research group, and the GLIIFCA steering committee.

Rob Salomon
Technical Director
Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics

Rob Salomon is the inaugural technical director of the Garvan-Weizmann Centre for Cellular Genomics. Rob has a background in biology and engineering and is interested in leveraging cutting-edge technology to answer important biological questions. In 2014, he was named a SRL Emerging Leader by ISAC. Since then, Mr. Salomon has played a major role in both the Australian and International Cytometry Societies.

CMLE Credit: 1.0