About the FACS Facility

Mission

Promote scientific research and training at the highest level, quality and rigor.
Bring new instrumentation developments, techniques and analyses into biological use.
Provide the Stanford research community access to a well-supported flow cytometry resources.

History

The Stanford Shared FACS Facility evolved from instrumentation developed and biological applications pioneered by the Herzenberg Lab. Early Herzenberg Lab instruments were made available to non-collaborative researchers for a fixed priced, fee for use schedule through the Genetics Department. The Facility moved to Beckman Center in 1989 and became a Stanford University Cost Center. The Facility is now also a Shared Resource of the Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Oversight Committee

The Shared FACS Facility Committee provides oversight. Committee members include: Lucie Shapiro (chair), Mark Davis, Stanley Falkow, Leonard Herzenberg, Garry Nolan, Judy Shizuru, Samuel Strober and Irving Weissman.

New Instrumentation, Applications and Software Development

The Shared FACS Facility is a University Cost Center which shares staff with the Herzenberg Lab. The FACS Development Group instrumentation and software developments are intended to evolve into use in the Facility. The criterion for accounting is that developments that do not benefit Facility users are considered to be research supported by the Herzenberg Lab. Once developed software or instrumentation is ready to be put into Facility use, costs of incorporation, maintenance and improvements are supported by the Facility. Government Cost and Rate Studies (GCRS) oversight requires non-profit/non-loss budget match within 5%.

CytoGenie

Developed by the Herzenberg Laboratory and the Stanford Shared FACS Facility, CytoGenie is a knowledge-based tool to assist you in designing, planning and executing FACS experiments. CytoGenie stores your public and private reagent inventories, helps you build staining combinations based on your inventory and the facility instruments, communicates experimental meta-data to Diva and Cellquest and generates an HTML summary of your experiment including pipetting calculations.

For more information or to setup your lab, contact Bahram Aram or visit the ScienceXperts website.

Existing Users - CytoGenie link renewal

Please provide the email address that you used to register with ScienceXperts.
You will then be emailed a link that can be used to launch CytoGenie.

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Facility Lending Library

The Shared FACS Facility Lending Library in Beckman B015 includes:

Practical Flow Cytometry (Shapiro)
Flow Cytometry (Darzynkiewicz et al)
Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting (Radbruch)
Flow Cytometry and Sorting (Melamed, Lindmo and Mendelsohn)
Flow Cytometry First Principles (Given)
Flow Cytometry Principles for Clinical Laboratory Practice (Owens and Loken)
Cytometry (1980 - present) and much more!