Midlands Innovation Flow Cytometry Training and Resources

Reagent bay of a lab flow cytometer instrument, showing labeled bottles for beads, sterilizer, cleanser, debubbler, rinse, sheath, and waste fluids.

The Midlands Innovation Flow Cytometry Group collaborate to provide free training sessions to Midlands Innovation to staff and students enabling researchers at all levels to upskill and discover new techniques and equipment that will enhance their research. 

Please note our Introduction to Flow Cytometry Course dates for 2026/2027 will be announced soon

New for 2026 /2027

We will be hosting in person lunch and learn seminars across the Midlands Innovation Universities. Aimed at new and existing flow cytometry users these seminars will each focus on a single topic, giving you best practise information and plenty of tips for successful experiments. 

Flow with Confidence: Tips for Cleaner, more Reproducible Data
Wednesday 18th November 11:30AM  | B128 Medical School | University of Nottingham

On Wednesday 18th November Bio-Rad will be taking us through the best practises to obtain clean, reproducible, flow cytometry data. Whether you’re new to flow cytometry or have been doing it for a while and want to improve your results, join us for our seminar, followed by lunch, with plenty of opportunity to ask questions.

  • 11:30-12:30 Seminar – Flow with Confidence: Tips for Cleaner, More Reproducible Data, Sharon Sanderson (Bio-Rad)
  • 12:30-13:30 Lunch and Discussion

Contact nicola.croxall@nottingham.ac.uk, for more information

 

The group hosts an Annual Flow Cytometry Conference which attracts more than 150 researchers from academic and the commercial sector. To view information about our 2027 conference please click here.

The Midlands Innovation Flow Cytometry Group are proud to launch training videos, available publicly, on how to use the Sony ID7000C Spectral Cell Analyser, Amnis ImageStream X MKII, BD Fortessa X-20 and Beckman Coulter CytoFLEX.

David Onion, Midlands Innovation’s University of Nottingham Flow Cytometry representative, and University of Nottingham’s Research Scientist and Flow Cytometry Facility Manager:

Our goal is for all research across the Midlands Innovation Universities to access the highest quality equipment and alongside professional training. We have made a set of instructional videos that complement our ever-popular training sessions so our researchers can get the most of out of the fantastic equipment in the Midlands Innovation.

 

Sony ID7000C Spectral Cell Analyser

Image Stream X MKII

BD Fortessa X-20 

Beckman Coulter CytoFLEX