Advanced Flow Cytometry
Prerequisites for these certificate courses are BLD 850, BLD 851, BLD 852
OR experience in Flow Cytometry & approval of the professor.
BLD 853: Advanced Flow Cytometry (2 Credits) - is offered during summer semester of odd years as an online lecture course. This
course covers the elements necessary for successful design of novel, 8-10 color assays
in flow cytometry, sorting, quality control, instrumentation, and applications.
BLD 854: Advanced Flow Cytometry Laboratory (2 Credits) - is offered during the summer semester of odd years as a one-week hands-on experience
that uses various flow cytometers across the MSU campus. It will give graduate students
exposure to the concepts taught in BLD 853, such as sorting, 8 color assay development,
and quality control.
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Need help with registration assistance, course information, or general interest, please email Brad Childs, Graduate Program Academic Advisor, at childsb1@msu.edu
Materials For Courses
Lecture material is provided on the learning management system D2L. A course pack will be provided for the laboratory.
Cost of the Course
Registration fees are paid on a per-credit hour basis and will be billed to your account at the time registration.
*Course fees are subject to change with approval of vote by Board of Trustees and some additional fees for international students may be applicable.
Registration for Non-Degree education student to take courses.
Dr. Sue McQuiston’s experience in flow cytometry started in the Lab for Cell Analysis at the University of California San Francisco in 1989. Her subsequent work in the UCSF Transplant lab led to the first offering of the flow cytometry crossmatch on demand 24/7. During her graduate work in 1993, Dr. McQuiston worked with the first group to verify expression of TNF Receptors on human cells via flow cytometry. As a flow cytometry specialist for Avigen, Inc., she worked with stem cell transduction using viral gene therapy vectors. She returned to UCSF in 2003 to supervise the Flow Cytometry Section of the Cytometry Core Facility. Dr. McQuiston joined the faculty at the Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program in May 2009 and has incorporated flow cytometry into all levels of undergraduate teaching and has developed graduate level flow cytometry courses. She is also a member of the advisory board for the MSU Flow Core Facility.
Need More Information?
Contact our Graduate Program Coordinator 517-432-2559 or via email at childsb1@msu.edu Or the course instructor Susan McQuiston via email at mcquist9@msu.edu