Purchase new flow cytometers - help please

From: J. Paul Robinson (jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2000 - 21:07:43 EST


Colleagues:
The facilty at Purdue is planning to replace our aging sorters within
the next several months. It's a long time since I purchased a flow
cytometer and I need some help. The Purdue facility, from which
this discussion list operates, is undergoing a major upgrade and
expansion in both flow and imaging facilties over the next couple of
years. My goal is to re-orient our environment for the next 5-10
years to accommodate changing technologies and research
directions.

If anyone out there has purchased in the last year or two and would
be willing to share some information with me on a confidential
basis, I would be very grateful. Since everyone seems to get
"special deals" on condition they don't share any secrets it really
makes it difficult to know what sort of value one can achieve with
the $$ we have.

I am currently looking at all three companies who make sorters
since my major goal is to replace my sorters. I am presently going
through the time-consuming process of evaluating both the
companies service, instruments, and what I think is their likely
future role in cytometry. Every little bit of info helps!

If you can help me, I can email you just a few questions.

If you have advice for me, I'd be happy to receive it.

Please email me at my private address
jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu
rather than the list.

Best wishes

Paul Robinson

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D.,
Professor of Immunopharmacology
Professor of Biomedical Engineering
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1515
(Ph) (765) 494-0757  Fax (765) 494-0517
jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu
http://www.cyto.purdue.edu
http://www.bioscope.org



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