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Spectral flow cytometry has redefined immunophenotyping — routinely powering 20+ color panels while turning autofluorescence from a liability into a feature. But scaling panel complexity creates a new challenge: keeping results consistent across instruments. Single-color controls, viability reagents, and biomarker references all behave differently platform to platform, and that variability can quietly undermine your data.
In this webinar, learn how synthetic cell mimics serve as platform-agnostic controls for compensation, viability gating, and biomarker validation — giving your multi-instrument workflows a reproducible, reliable foundation.
Key Learning Objectives
- Discover how synthetic cell mimics act as a consistent unmixing and setup reference across spectral platforms — so your controls finally travel with your panel, not against it.
- See exactly how a 36-color immunophenotyping panel was adapted across multiple spectral systems without rebuilding from scratch — and the one thing that made it transferable.
- Learn why most standardization attempts fall short and what a practical, instrument-agnostic control framework looks like in a real multi-platform study.
Meet the Presenters
Claude Chew, BSc — Flow Cytometry Specialist I, Baylor College of Medicine
Claude has a degree in Biomedical Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia. He was introduced to flow cytometry during his first job in 2007 as a lab tech and has continued in it ever since. Claude has worked in both academia and industry and joined the BCM Cytometry and Cell Sorting core in 2022 as core coordinator.
He is responsible for providing technical oversight of the core, instrument troubleshooting, data analysis and consultation to core users on all aspects of flow cytometry experiments and analysis.
He has collaborated and continues to collaborate on a variety of spectral and imaging flow cytometry projects within academia and industry. Most recently, Claude has been working to develop robust spectral flow cytometry capabilities within the BCM cytometry core to enhance its service to the BCM and Texas Medical Center research community.
Sarah Kotanchiyev, BSc — Field Application Scientist – Manager, Slingshot Biosciences
Sarah Kotanchiyev serves as the Field Application Scientist-Manager for Slingshot Biosciences. In this capacity, she assists numerous customers with the integration of catalog and custom projects into their flow cytometry workflows. Sarah brings over eight years of specialized experience in clinical flow cytometry from Emory University Hospital, where she played a pivotal role in the development, validation, and implementation of new assays. She is deeply passionate about flow cytometry and is dedicated to helping researchers achieve optimal results in their work.
