Maeckerlab Weblog

New Links of Interest

Many of you may already know about MyCyte, a "hub" for information on all things to do with flow cytometry.  Sponsored by the makers of FlowJo software, MyCyte has a news and discussion forum, job board, event calendar, reagent database, and more.  They even have a link with abstracts from my blog!

My research group has worked with CytoAnalytics, a consulting firm run by Janet Siebert that specializes in complex data analysis.  Using a variety of statistical and visualization tools, Janet allows investigation of trends in data that might otherwise be difficult to gleen.  For examples related to cytokine signature profiling, see our paper in Cytometry 73A: 289-298.

Literature Updates

I'm no longer posting literature updates to this blog.  Old updates (March 2006 - April 2008) can be found here.

Instead, I'm writing for Faculty of 1000 Medicine, and I would recommend using their service to find articles of interest and reviews.  In fact, you can visit this page to see the articles that I've recently evalutated for Faculty of 1000 Medicine.

Another useful updating service is provided for free by AMEDEO, which provides weekly updates of abstracts from the medical literature.  Your updates are customized by topic and journals of interest.  Check it out!

Multicolor ICS Working Group

The Multicolor ICS Working Group is an informal association of key multicolor flow labs that I brought together in order to discuss and help standardize multicolor ICS assays.  Members of the group are listed here:  Download multicolor_ics_working_grp_members.doc

The group's accomplishments to date include:

• A compilation of instrument configurations (lasers and filter sets) in use by the various labs:  Download multicolor_ics_working_group_filter_summary_110905.xls
• A summary of a survey ranking markers as to their importance for use in multicolor ICS:  Download ics_marker_surveysummary.doc
• A compilation of validated panels in use by the various labs for multicolor ICS, with comments:  Download multicolor_ics_working_group_panel_summary_022306.xls 

Cytokine research web page

I was recently alerted to the following resource for cytokine researchers:  http://www.cytok.com.  There are job postings, recent literature, and a directory of laboratories with citation rankings (http://www.cytok.com/labs.php).  Yes, I'm on the list, at #906!  I never knew there were so many labs doing cytokine research....