Author Archive
Cytobank User Stories: June Myklebust, Ph.D.
Welcome to Cytobank User Stories, a series featuring interviews with Cytobank users on their research, scientific vision, and use of flow cytometry.
This time we interview June Myklebust, Ph.D., a project leader in Erland Smeland’s lab at Oslo University Hospital and former postdoctoral fellow in the Levy Lab at Stanford. June’s recent publications include her contributions to studies on B-cell signaling networks in lymphoma and her work on bone morphogenetic proteins in B cell suppression.
Send us feedback and let us know who you’d like to hear from (including yourself)!
| What are you excited about in science? What is your scientific vision? |
 June Myklebust, Ph.D. |
Cytobank User Stories: Sean Bendall, Ph.D.
Welcome to our inaugural issue of Cytobank User Stories, a series featuring interviews with Cytobank users on their research, scientific vision, and use of flow cytometry.
First up is Sean Bendall, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow in Garry Nolan’s lab at Stanford University. Sean’s recent publications include his work on mass cytometry as well as SPADE (available in hosted models of Cytobank).
We’d be happy to hear what you think. Send us feedback and let us know who you’d like to hear from (including yourself)!
| What are you excited about in science? What is your scientific vision? |
 Sean Bendall, Ph.D. |
Introducing the Newly Redesigned Cytobank Support Portal
If you’ve clicked the “Support” link at the top of the Cytobank webpage, you may have noticed that our support portal has a new look and some new features.
Search our Knowledge Base
Our new support site has a Knowledge Base filled with articles to augment your Cytobank experience. You’ll find tutorials on our functionalities using real datasets, articles guiding you in both basic and advanced Cytobank usage, and answers to frequently asked questions. You can browse through article sections or conduct a keyword search of the Knowledge Base.
What kind of support can I receive from Cytobank?
We offer a wide range of support for your flow cytometry endeavors:
- One-on-one WebEx-based training to get you started using Cytobank
- Biology consulting support: How to design experiments, what to measure, selecting reagents, how to build figures, how to share datasets from your peer-reviewed publications
- Troubleshooting
- Data security
- Technical support for networks
- Inquiries about getting started with premium functionalities such as SPADE and dose response
Getting Your Lab Organized on Cytobank
With a new year ahead of us, you might be thinking it’s time for a fresh start. Maybe it’s time to organize the experiments that resulted from a flurry of work at the end of last year, or maybe you manage a lab and would like to keep past and ongoing experiments organized as people join and leave the lab. In this post, we’ll share our thoughts on how Cytobank can help you achieve these goals.
Hosted models of Cytobank
You may be familiar with our main server at http://www.cytobank.org/cytobank/, but did you know that we can host an instance of Cytobank specifically for your lab group? With these hosted solutions, your lab manager or PI controls who has access to your server and can guide the group in configuring projects to keep various research branches well organized. Read our previous post on Projects to learn more about Projects. Hosted models of Cytobank also have the advantage of offering you premium functionality that isn’t available on our main server, such as SPADE and dose response.
(more…)
Highlights of the Cytobank Blog
As the end of 2011 approaches, we thought we’d take this opportunity to highlight posts from earlier days.
The Cytobank Story – Read about how the need for dynamic summaries of experiment results linked to the underlying single cell data resulted in the creation of Cytobank.
Cytometry in the Cloud – Advances in flow cytometry now enable researchers and clinicians to simultaneously measure a large number of cellular parameters. Learn about how doing cytometry in the cloud with Cytobank can accelerate data analysis, foster collaboration, and provide data back-ups.
Mass Cytometry: Vaporizing Cells in the Name of Science – Learn about mass cytometry, where antibodies are conjugated to element isotopes instead of fluorphores, increasing the number of cellular parameters that can be assayed in one sample tube. Access the raw data from a Nolan lab dataset published in Science this year, and try your hand at analyzing mass cytometry data yourself!
(more…)
Clear the Clutter: Organize Your Experiment Inbox
You probably don’t intend your experiment inbox to be a frenzied mess of experiments resembling your lab bench after a long night at the flow cytometer. Luckily, we have provided you with a number of tools that give you the power to efficiently manage your experiment data. In this post, we’ll highlight some of these methods of organizing and filtering your experiments. Consider this a supplement to our previous post on Future-Proofing Your Data!
Public experiments and Archived experiments are flagged with "P" or "A," respectively.
The Experiment Inbox is the first page on which you land when logging into Cytobank. By default, you will see “All Experiments,” including public experiments (denoted with a ‘P’), experiments you uploaded, experiments shared with you, and your archived experiments (marked with an ‘A’). You can change your default inbox view on your Profile page (click the Profile link at top of the experiment inbox, and then click “Edit”), for example if you wanted to display only “My Experiments” every time you log in.
(more…)
