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| March 26, 2008 | A Becton Dickinson FACSCanto II flow cytometer, equipped with a blue and red laser and a high-throughput (96 well plate adapter) sampler, is installed in the core's newly-created satellite facility which is located in Einstein's newest building, the Michael F. Price Center for Genetic and Translational Medicine/Harold and Muriel Block Research Pavilion.
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| March 11, 2008 | The facility registers its 500th user.
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| March 4, 2008 | A 'Flow Cytometry Focus Group' was incepted at Einstein. It meets the 1st Tuesday of every month in Belfer 601. Watch for announcements - lunch is provided!
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| September 26, 2007 | A Becton Dickinson FACSAria high-speed cell sorter flow cytometer, configured with 4 solid-state lasers, was installed.
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| September 19, 2007 | Both FACScans were upgraded to 4-colors by installing a 633nm red diode laser and an additional photomultiplier tube (PMT).
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| September 18, 2007 | A 300mW MPB Communications 592nm orange fiber laser, VFL-P Series, was installed on the MoFlo XDP high-speed cell sorter flow cytometer. The instrument is now equipped with 4 lasers!
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| September 05, 2007 | The core now has an assistant manager - Lydia Tesfa. Welcome!
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| June 29, 2007 | A Dako MoFlo XDP high-speed cell sorter flow cytometer, configured with 3 tunable-wavelength lasers, was installed - the first commercial installation of this model flow cytometer in the world!!
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| May 07, 2007 | The facility registers its 400th user.
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| November 02, 2006 | A custom-manufactured tunable wavelength argon-krypton mixed gas laser, a Coherent Innova 300 series, was installed on the high-speed MoFlo cell sorter flow cytometer. Now, all three lasers on that instrument have tunable-wavelength capabilities, which afford maximum flexibility in experiment design.
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| September 05, 2006 | FlowJo software site license was activated.
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| June 01, 2006 | The core now has an assistant director - Jinghang Zhang. Welcome!
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| April 20, 2006 | The facility registers its 300th user.
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| April 03, 2006 | Inverted fluorescent microscope got a powerful and modern 120W metal halide lamp and power supply, which has excitation intensity comparable to, or better that, the conventional mercury arc lamp that it replaced.
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| March 22, 2006 | Both FACScans have a 20-liter cubitainer system installed which provides 5 times the capacity of the factory's fluidic system.
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| October 7, 2005 | The facility registers its 200th user.
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| September, 2005 | The original computer analysis workstation, which was a Macintosh G3 with 128MB RAM, is replaced with a Macintosh G5 computer with dual processors.
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| June 23, 2005 | The digital LSRII flow cytometer is upgraded from 10 to 12 fluorescent detectors. This instrument now has the ability to provide up to 15 parameters for every particle interrogated!
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| March 14, 2005 | A second computer analysis workstation, a Macintosh iMac G5, is installed.
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| February 24, 2005 | Two small-workgroup quality networked color laser printers (Xerox Phaser 8400N) that have 128 MB RAM and 500 MHz PowerPC processors are installed which replace the very tired and outdated Epson Stylus 850N inkjet printer which had only 32KB of input buffer and which dated from 1998!
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| February 1, 2005 | Electronic scheduling is initiated. |
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