Expert Technical Training That Ensures Reproducibility In STEM

Cheeky Scientist’s Technical Programs currently include Expert Cytometry, Expert Microscopy, and Expert Sequencing. Each program provides continuing education credits and is taught by leading PhD experts in their respective STEM fields.

Expert Technical Training That Ensures Reproducibility In STEM

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Heather Brown-Harding, PhD

Learn the best practices and advanced techniques across the diverse fields of microscopy, including instrumentation, experimental setup, image analysis, figure preparation, and more.

Get The Free Modern Flow Cytometry eBook

Get The Free Modern Flow Cytometry eBook

Tim Bushnell, PhD

Learn the best practices of flow cytometry experimentation, data analysis, figure preparation, antibody panel design, instrumentation and more.

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Tim Bushnell, PhD

Advanced 4-10 Color Compensation, Learn strategies for designing advanced antibody compensation panels and how to use your compensation matrix to analyze your experimental data.

Technical Training Programs

Technical Programs
Expert Cytometry

Expert Cytometry

Get access to expert training in flow cytometry, including real-time guidance by top flow cytometry scientists.

Expert Sequencing

Expert Sequencing

Get access to expert training in next generation sequencing (NGS) by top NGS experts.

Expert Microscopy

Expert Microscopy

Get access to expert training in microscopy, including daily mentorship by microscopy experts across disciplines.

Featured Articles

The Power Of Spectral Viewers And Their Use In Full Spectrum Flow Cytometry

The Power Of Spectral Viewers And Their Use In Full Spectrum Flow Cytometry

By: Tim Bushnell, PhD

What photon from yonder fluorochrome breaks?  It is … umm… hmmm. Let me see. Excitation off a 561 nm laser, with an emission maximum of 692 nm. I’m sure if Shakespeare was a flow cytometrist, he might have written that very scene. But the play is lost in time. However, since the protagonist had difficulty determining what fluorochrome was emitting photons, let’s consider how this could be figured out. In my opinion, one of the handiest flow cytometry tools is the spectral viewer. This tool helps visualize the excitation and emission profile of different fluorochromes, as well as allowing you…

Fickle Markers: Solutions For Antibody Binding Specificity Challenges

Fickle Markers: Solutions For Antibody Binding Specificity Challenges

By: Tim Bushnell, PhD

Reproducibility has been an ongoing, and important, concept in the sciences for years.  In the area of biomedical research, the alarm was sounded by several papers published in the early 2010’s.  Authors like Begley and Ellis, Prinz and coworkers, and Vasilevsky and colleagues, among others reported an alarming trend in the reproducibility of pre-clinical data.  These reports indicated between 50% to almost 90% of published pre-clinical data were not reproducible.  This was further highlighted in the article by Freedman and coworkers, who tried to identify and quantify the different sources of error that could be causing this crisis.  Figure 1,…

5 Common Flow Cytometry Questions, Answered

5 Common Flow Cytometry Questions, Answered

By: Tim Bushnell, PhD

I want to thank all of you who send us your questions about flow cytometry, so I thought I would dip into the old email bag and answer a few of the common ones here.  If your question isn’t answered this time, look for it to be answered in a future blog post.  Of course, if you want us to cover a specific topic, drop us a line.  1. How Fast Can I Go? This is  a common question. The allure of the ‘hi’ button is hard to resist.  The faster you go, the sooner you are finished with data…

Success Stories

Fabienne Lucas, MD, PhD

Fabienne Lucas, MD, PhD

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Resident in Clinical Pathology

I began Expert Cytometry as a postdoc in the US after my medical and PhD training in Germany and the UK. I had used flow cytometry for more than 5 years but needed to take a ‘deep dive’ to really understand the technique. I soon became the expert in my lab and helped my peers design their experiments. It was also the impetus for me to apply (and receive) the Mary Lou Ingram Scholarship, and start the MiSET RFC standard while I continue my career in cytometry.

Carina Torres

Carina Torres

Core Manager
Eli Lilly & Company

I invited Expert Cytometry to Lilly Pharmaceuticals to teach a two-day comprehensive course; ranging from the fundamentals of flow to the experimental design of assays specific to what I think a lot of biotech companies are doing these days. Afterward, several of our scientists wondered why I didn’t bring in a course like this earlier! Our instructor, Tim Bushnell, Ph.D., educated my users with the background they needed to design their assays most effectively. I immediately noticed the positive impact he had when my users began to ask more informed questions during the planning stages of their experiments. As a busy core manager, it’s difficult to find the time to prepare such a well-designed course like Expert Cytometry offers while trying to stay focused on innovation and maintaining a competitive advantage in the fast-paced industry environment. I’m grateful to the Expert Cytometry team for helping me to keep things moving forward at Lilly.

Miguel Garcia

Miguel Garcia

Head of Flow Cytometry Unit
Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne

As a Core Manager, my position requires staying up to date with the latest best practices. Expert Cytometry provided the necessary information on flow cytometry to stay on the cutting edge of the field for a reasonable investment. Overall, the course was really well done by speakers expert on the field and I really appreciated the flexibility of listening to the webinars as needed. Expert Cytometry is wonderful and I would recommend it to beginner as well as advanced flow cytometry professionals.

Amrutesh Puranik, PhD

Amrutesh Puranik, PhD

Senior Staff Scientist
Regeneron

I’m a postdoctoral researcher and know a lot about flow but I needed to learn a few new techniques and execute them before I could get my paper published. I joined Expert Cytometry because they have a good reputation for teaching high-level flow cytometry information very well. I really enjoyed the personal guidance Expert Cytometry offered and was impressed by how much I learned about controls and compensation, experimental design, statistics, and even apoptosis. Expert Cytometry is perhaps the only class that teaches you from scratch how to be a flow cytometry expert.