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Hi everyone,
I´m Virginia Vila-del Sol, manager of the Flow Cytometry Facility and Extracellular Vesicles Unit at the National Paraplegics Hospital in Toledo, Spain. We are a little core facility at the research Unit of our Hospital, with 2 analysers and 1 cell sorter. I have been managing the Flow Cytometry Facility since 2008 and two years ago, we have joined with Proteomics facility to create Extracellular Vesicles Unit as a core facility for the study of extracellular vesicles, that I also manage.

I think it is prioritary to continue learning from our colleagues in order to offer our users the best service. In addition, learning about others facilities in terms of managing would be a very nice form to manage our facility in the most efficient way possible.

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