Overview

To Register for an account in the Pediatrics/Winship Flow Cytometry Core please click here.

Bookings can be made online for the analyzers  through PPMS. Once users have been trained they will be given access to book the equipment online. The calendars are located at: https://ppms.us/emory/?ECFCC

PLEASE NOTE: If you move labs or leave Emory please let the Flow Core know as soon as possible so we can update your record.

Projects

If you have mulitple Projects or SPEEDTYPES that you wish to bill your flow charges to you can request that separate projects be created. This allows for organization of hours booked per project for billing purposes. Please visit: PPMS Project Request

Emory + Pediatrics/Winship Flow Cytometry Core Billing Policy

Pricing (Effective February 1, 2024)

• Cell Sorting, ARIA II  - $145/hr
• Imagestream - $51/hr
• iQUE - $52/hr
• Analyzers, Auroras, Symphony & Cytoflex - $40/hr
• Analyzer Training* $300 per session (From 1st August, 2021)
• Sample Processing/Data Analysis/Service Consultation - $60/hr
• Offline Analysis Workstations - $0/hr

* Training Includes a credit for each individual of $300 to be used within in 6 months. 

Pediatric researchers are eligible for subsidized rates on selected services. Winship members doing cancer projects are eligible for subsidized rates. Please contact David Archer to determine eligibility. An additional fee will be charged for service consultation, please contact David Archer for details.

In order to keep the Pediatrics/Winship Flow Cytometry Core instruments in good working order for all users, detailed use instructions and cleaning procedures are included in the instrument standard operating procedures (SOP). When a user makes deviations from the SOP that result in instrument downtime or inhibits the next user from typical use, the user at fault may be charged to facilitate necessary repairs. This may include, but is not limited to, part replacement and technician repair/troubleshoot time. If you have questions about how to properly use or maintain the instrument to keep it in proper working order, please do not hesitate to ask Aaron Rae or Prasanthi Chappa. If you find an instrument to be malfunctioning or not working at its best, please immediately report the issue, this will prevent further damage and properly identify the problem.

Cancellation Policy

Any equipment cancellations made 24 hours or more in advance to the booking will be honored and no charges will be assessed to the user. Any equipment cancellations made LESS THAN 24 hours in advance to the booking will be charged in full to the investigator’s discretionary (i.e. non-sponsored) account. For additional details on the cancellation policy, please see the Flow Cytometry Core Billing Practices Subsidies and Cancelation Policies (PDF).

Subsidy Policy

Generous subsidies are offered for those investigators who are actively engaging in child health-related or for Winship Cancer Institute members doing cancer-related projects research. Subsidies will only be applied to the amount of time actually used on the machine, rather than the time booked. The investigator will be responsible for paying the full rate for any time that was booked and not used. For additional details on the subsidy policy, please see the Flow Cytometry Core Billing Practices Subsidies and Cancelation Policies (PDF).

Flow Cytometry Core Assisted Sorting Policy

Users are expected to turn up at their scheduled time, if you are running late please inform the member of staff you have booked with. Failure to inform a member of staff no later than 30 minutes after the scheduled booking time will result in an automatic cancellation of the booking and the user being charged the full amount*. 
*exteunating circumstances permitted at the discretion of the Technical Director.  

Flow Cytometry Core Data Retention Policy

• Flow Core Data Backup and Retention Policy

BSL2 safety practices should be employed in the facility. Primary human cells or cells exposed to recombinant virus should be fixed before analysis on the instruments.

All users are required to fill out the Flow Cytometry Facility Cell Sorting Form prior to their sort being performed.

As of the May 1, 2012 all users that are requesting cell sorting are required to download the Cell Sorting Guidelines from the EHSO. A Risk Assesment must be provided to the Flow Cytometry Facility before any sorting can be performed, a template is provided within the EHSO guidelines.

The Flow Cytometry Core is generously supported by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Winship Cancer Institute, and Emory University. When presenting or publishing work completed using the core, please include "Pediatric/Winship Flow Cytometry Core" in the acknowledgments.

To determine if you should use "Children's Healthcare of Atlanta" in your author affiliations, please see guidelines here.

For Winship support the following should be followed:

Publication Acknowledgement Policy

The National Cancer Institute requires that publications acknowledge the Winship Cancer Institute Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG), and it is tracking compliance. If a Winship Cancer Institute CCSG-supported Shared Resource provided data, designed the study, performed analyses, provided results used in your publication, and/or provided any systems or services that were used for the work that resulted in your publication, please include the following statement in the acknowledgment section of your publication(s):

Research reported in this publication was supported in part by the Pediatrics/Winship Flow Cytometry Core of Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta and NIH/NCI under award number P30CA138292. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.

The ARIA II is regularly tested (every three months) for Aerosol containment and Mycoplasma. The results from these tests will be posted here shortly after. If one of these tests fails, corrective action will be taken.

• Results May 26th, 2021
• Results August 24th 2021
• Results September 1st 2021 (Repeat)
• Results September 3rd 2021 (Repeat)
• Results October 27th 2021
• Results April 10th 2023
• ​Results August 10th 2023
• Results November 15th 2023
• Results February 22nd 2024
• Results May 14th 2024
• Results August 16th 2024