UC Davis Flow Cytometry Shared Resource

Registration is open for our Winter 2021 Comprehensive Course in Flow Cytometry, ONLINE! Join us February 8-12, 2021 for a full week of training. Special rates are available for cancer researchers and industry scholarship support may be available! This course combines information packed lectures and practical laboratory sessions to provide an in-depth understanding of flow cytometry. The course content has been redesigned to make the best use of teleconferencing software convey important topics in online lecture sessions and live video “labs” with the instructors.Don't miss this opportunity to receive comprehensive training in this important cell and particle analysis technique! The course tuition is $900.00 per student. For more information, please see the attached course outline and click here for registration details:
https://registration.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/events/flow_cytometry_Feb_2021

A limited number of full tuition scholarships are available for Cancer Center member investigators (5) and School of Veterinary Medicine affiliates (2). Please see the attached Scholarship Announcements and follow links below to apply now for these opportunities:

Comprehensive Cancer Center laboratory members:
https://registration.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/events/Flow_cytometry_Feb_2021_CancerCenter_ScholarshipApplicant/

School of Veterinary Medicine laboratory members:
https://registration.genomecenter.ucdavis.edu/events/Flow_cytometry_Feb_2021_Veterinary_ScholarshipApplicant/

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions and I would appreciate it if you would share this information with your colleagues.

Genome Center Event Registration Apply Now! Flow Cytometry Training Course scholarships for UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine researchers are now available!

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I have been interested in the process of Neutrophil Extracellular Trap formation since I heard about it in a seminar at UC Davis a few years ago. Turns out this is an active field of research and new discoveries point towards the role of mitochondrial DNA as the source of the net-like scaffolds of DNA and cytotoxic granules that neutrophils and other leukocytes use to trap and kill pathogens like bacterial and fungal cells. Here are a couple of interesting articles on the topic:https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/pdf/S1534-5807(18)30054-6.pdf
and Untangling "Net-osis" from "NETS", downplaying the assertion that Netosis is a new form of cell death and implicating mtDNA in NET formation: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eji.201747053

Untangling “NETosis” from NETs NETs are formed by activated neutrophils releasing mtDNA and granule proteins. This process requires an active NADPH oxidase and glycolytic ATP production for rearrangements of the cytoskeleton netwo...