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A new view on cytometry with the BD CellView™ Image technology

Affiliation
VIB Flow Core Ghent
VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research
Ghent, Belgium

Abstract
The VIB Flow Core had the unique opportunity to test and evaluate BD’s prototype of their image enabled cell sorter equipped with the BD CellView^TM Image technology. In my talk I will highlight some of the applications we have been working on over the last years and show the potential of real-time image enabled FACS allowing researchers to make faster and more confident sorting decisions. Imaging based sorting will lead to improved quality of sort outcomes and its connected downstream processes. I will take the opportunity to present some preliminary results from the newly launched BD FACSDiscover^TM S8 Cell sorter.

Biosketch
Gert Van Isterdael is head of the VIB Flow Core Ghent. After obtaining his Bachelor of Science, he was subsequently a member of the De Jaeger lab (2003-2007) and the Beeckman lab (2007-2013) at the VIB Center of Plant Systems Biology (PSB). During his time at PSB, he became the cell sorter operator for the department and his passion for flow cytometry started. Early 2013, he joined the VIB Center for Inflammation Research (IRC) in the Lambrecht and Hammad lab. He became responsible for all flow cytometers and cell sorters located at IRC and was strongly involved in the conception of the IRC Flow Core facility, which matured in the VIB Flow Core Ghent. His primary role is to provide flow cytometry expertise to the users of the core facility. Under his leadership the VIB Flow Core has become a top academic core facility within Europe and the core is actively involved in benchmarking and testing new technologies. Gert Van Isterdael is an active member of ISAC, the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry and has received an ISAC SRL Emerging leader award (2016-2020) and the RMS Award for Flow Cytometry 2021.