Òscar Fornas

Head of Flow Cytometry Unit. Centre for Genomic Regulation and University Pompeu Fabra. Barcelona, Spain.

The Flow Cytometry Unit at Centre for Genomic Regulation and Pompeu Fabra University was created in 2001 to assist the needs of our scientific community at PRBB and its influence area of Barcelona, Spain. With most advanced technology and highly qualified and motivated staff our unit is currently a highly advanced flow unit. Our main mission is to provide users with access to state-of-the-art technology, constant assistance and individual training to develop their flow experiments and projects, from the simplest to the most complex ones. We currently have almost 500 users and we cove the needs or around 350 per year from more than 150 research groups. We count with several analysers and cell-sorters to cover all existing flow cytometry applications. Additionally, we implement and develop other applications based on user’s needs. As an example, recently we implemented the flow karyotyping for chromosome sequencing and nowadays we are focused in the identification and isolation of nanoparticles such us viruses and extracellular vesicles, clear hot topics in the field.