• Home
  • ABOUT
  • SERVICES AND RATES
    • Sample Requirements
  • SCHEDULE
  • RESOURCES
    • Core Videos
  • Events
  • POLICIES
  • CONTACT
Mass Cytometry Core

Longwood Medical Area CyTOF
Mass Cytometry Core

Our Services


Consultation

Consultation is available from initial experiment setup throughout your project. Expert technical assistance regarding experimental design, acquisition, interpretation, troubleshooting and primary analysis are provided.
​
Picture

Sample Acquisition

Fully assisted sample acquisition and interpretation is provided during regular staffed hours. Post-data processing such as normalization and debarcoding, are included by request.  Data can be accessed within 24 hours of reservations on Pydio.
​
Self-run acquisition training is available to researchers requiring time on nights and weekends. 
Sample Requirements
Picture

Data Analysis Training

Our core staff  is available to assist with understanding your data and training on publicly available data analysis platforms.
Data workstations are provided at no charge for researchers to access normalization, debarcoding, FlowJo and Cytobank data software. 
Picture
Picture

Rates


Consultation & Data Training

DFCI & BWH
External Academic
Corporate
$65.00/hour
$115.00/hour
​$175.00/hour

Assisted Sample Acquisition

DFCI & BWH
External Academic
Corporate
$100.00/hour
$185.00/hour
​$250.00/hour
​(rates subject to change)
  • Rates are calculated in 0.5 hour increments.
  • 1 hour minimum reservation for instrument use
  • 0.5 hour minimum reservation for consultations and bioinformatics
  • Initial instrument training requires a 4 hour reservation
  • Please see policies for information on sample requirements and cancellations
Sample Requirements
Schedule
Policies

Shipped Samples


The CyTOF core can accept shipped samples!  
  • Samples must be stained by the researcher
  • Shipped overnight on ice in either the DNA intercalator step or as a pellet in 4%PFA prior to DNA intercalator
  • The package must contain a list of the samples with cell counts and a copy of the antibody panel.  
  • Reservations for shipped samples should be made no earlier then 12:00pm on the day the sample is scheduled to arrive.  
  • Core staff will  preform the DNA intercalator (if necessary), final wash and filtering steps one hour prior to the scheduled reservation time.  
  • Technician time for final sample prep is charged at the consultation rate - 1 hour for samples shipped in DNA intercalator or 1.5 hours for samples shipped as a pellet prior to DNA intercalator.

Shipping
Attn: Noa Schork / CyTOF Core
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
450 Brookline Ave., MA309
Boston, MA 02215

 HOME | ABOUT | SERVICES AND RATES | SCHEDULE | POLICIES | CONTACT | RESOURCES

©2017 Mass Cytometry Core at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute