Beckman Coulter EPICS ALTRA™
A rapid
flow based Electronically Programmable Individual Cell Sorter (EPICSŪ
ALTRA™ Cell Sorting) permits screening of large numbers of cells and
selection of pools or clones of related cells.
The EPICS ALTRA can
also be used to enrich cell populations prior to a low speed, higher content
sort with the Evotec
Technologies CytoClone.
Our Altra is
equipped with 443 nm, 488 nm and 633 nm lasers & 7 PMTs.
Evotec Technologies CytoClone
™
Microfluidic based Image Activated Cell Selection (Evotec
Technologies,
CytoClone™) permits high viability sorting
based on high content information from phase contrast and fluorescence
micrographs of individual cells.
The CytoClone™ is
used in our lab for protein expression analysis at the clonal level. It provides
us with the unique opportunity to see how protein distribution is related to a
specific mRNA expression pattern. The imaging based approach of the CytoClone™
system for automated mammalian cell cloning allows obtaining topology
information of multiple cellular proteins during clonal cell isolation.
