Florian Mair

Florian is currently working as the Managing Director of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility (FCCF) at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. After graduating with an MSc in Molecular Biology from the University of Vienna, he received his PhD in Molecular Life Sciences from the University of Zurich in 2014, and spent several years at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, USA.

During the past decade, he has been involved extensively with different high-dimensional cytometry platforms as well as scRNA-sequencing techniques, including multi-omic methods. His main scientific interests are the function of dendritic cells and T cells in non-lymphoid tissues during health and disease, teaching best practices in cytometry and developing new flow cytometry panels and approaches.

Yanping Guo

Dr. Yanping Guo specialises in high-content flow cytometry and single-cell analysis. As the Flow Cytometry TTP Manager at UCL Cancer Institute, she supports researchers and clinicians in immunophenotyping, biomarker discovery, and cancer research. She is passionate about applying flow and mass cytometry to basic, translational, and clinical cancer research, focusing on tumour heterogeneity, the microenvironment, and immune responses.

Beyond her technical expertise, Yanping is a dedicated leader in the flow cytometry community. As part of the Technician Commitment, she leads UCL’s technical staff mentoring programme and foster professional development for technical staff. As RMS Flow Cytometry Section Chair, she oversees RMS flow cytometry meetings, courses, and events while organising training workshops.

Gemma Foulds

Dr Gemma Foulds is a Senior Laboratory Research Scientist in the Flow Cytometry Science Technology Platform at the Francis Crick Research Institute. There she specialises in both mass cytometry and spectral flow cytometry, providing training and support to users of these technologies. Prior to this she obtained a PhD from the University of Sheffield and has worked as a Post-Doctoral Research Scientist at Nottingham Trent University. Her research interests have focussed on heat shock proteins, immunophenotyping and cancer immunotherapy.   

David McDonald

Dr David McDonald heads up the Flow Cytometry Core Facility at Newcastle University. David began his research career in the study of yeast, moving to autoimmune molecular immunology and cellular immunological deficiencies on the backdrop of exome sequencing and cytometry techniques.  In 2012, he moved into the flow cytometry core facility at Newcastle University to apply a multidisciplinary approach to diverse biological research questions often operating across the boundaries of genomics, imaging, metabolomics and proteomics. This has yielded highly coveted outputs with publications in top journals including Cell, Science and Nature.