Flow Cytometry Core

The Flow Cytometry Core Facility is based in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, and is located in room 383 of the Dr. C.C. and Mabel L. Criss Health Sciences Complex III.  The core provides equipment and services to identify, quantify, analyze, and isolate cells in complex mixtures (like blood or tissue).  The facility is equipped with two state-of-the-art flow cytometers:

  1. BioRAD ZE5 (Yeti) Cell Analyzer: up to 15-color analysis and High Throughput Screening.
  2. Invitrogen Bigfoot Spectral Cell Sorter: for full-spectrum  analysis and high-speed cell sorting.
     

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The facility also has a workstation setup as a data server and data analysis station for our users.  All computers in the facility are connected to the Creighton network and have both black & white and color laser printers.  All data generated in the facility is routinely backed up and saved.

Feel free to reach out to the core at flow@creighton.edu or stop by for a free consultation. Find out how you can utilize flow cytometry in your lab.

 

Directions to Our Facility

The Flow Cytometry Core Facility is now located on the 3rd floor (room 383) of Criss III on Creighton's campus. Criss II and Criss III are joined together. If you're not sure which building you are in, Criss II has 2 elevators and Criss III has 3 elevators.

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Directions from Eppley Airfield

  1. Take Abbott Drive (the road just outside the airport) south.  Abbott Drive turns into Cuming Street at about 10th Street.
  2. Continue on Cuming Street to 24th St.  Turn left on 24th.  
  3. Go to the top of the hill.  Just before you go under the I-480 overpass at the top of the hill, turn right onto Wareham Parkway (also called Cass St.).
  4. Continue around the edge of campus to the last building on your right.  That building is Criss II.  Park out front. 

Directions from UNMC

  1. Go east on Harney (or Leavenworth) to 24th St.
  2. Turn left (north) onto 24th St.
  3. Go under the I-480 overpass, and immediately turn left onto Wareham Parkway (also called Cass).
  4. Continue around the edge of campus to the last building on your right.  That building is Criss II.  Park out front.

Directions from Downtown

  1. Take Dodge St. west to 24th St.
  2. Turn left (north) onto 24th St.
  3. Go under the I-480 overpass, and immediately turn left onto Wareham Parkway (also called Cass).
  4. Continue around the edge of campus to the last building on your right.  That building is Criss II.  Park out front.

Directions from I-80

  1. Take the I-480 exit North toward downtown.  Stay to the left.
  2. Take the Highway 75 North exit (toward Eppley Airfield).  Creighton will be immediately on your right, and St. Joseph's hospital on your left.
  3. Take the first exit (Cuming St. - Qwest Center), and turn right onto Cuming St.
  4. Continue on Cuming Street to 24th St.  Turn right onto 24th St.  
  5. Go to the top of the hill.  Just before you go under the I-480 overpass at the top of the hill, turn right onto Wareham Parkway (also called Cass St.).
  6. Continue around the edge of campus to the last building on your right.  That building is Criss II.  Park out front. 

Key Personnel

Patrick Swanson

Patrick C. Swanson, PhD

Acknowledgements

The facility gratefully acknowledges funding from the NIH (3R01GM102487-03S1) and the LB692 Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Biomedical Research Development Program to P.C.S. to support the acquisition of the BioRAD ZE5 Cell Analyzer, and funding from the NIH (3P20GM139762-04S1) and the Creighton University School of Medicine to P.S.S and P.C.S to support the acquisition of the Invitrogen Bigfoot Spectral Cell Sorter.