Flow cytometry is a powerful tool for high-throughput, multiparametric cell analysis, essential to many fields of biomedical and life science research. But what if your lab has a brand-new flow cytometer that isn't being fully utilized, or an aging flow cytometer that sit idle due to evolving research priorities, limited staff time, or the ongoing burden of maintenance. If this sounds familiar, there’s a smart, collaborative solution: integrate your flow cytometer to our facility.
Integrating your flow cytometer to MFlow it’s a strategic move that benefits your lab, strengthens our research infrastructure, and fosters greater collaboration across disciplines.
The Challenges of Maintaining a Lab-Owned Flow Cytometer
Owning a flow cytometer comes with significant responsibilities:
- High Maintenance Costs: Service contracts, replacement parts, and periodic calibration quickly add up.
- Technical Expertise: Skilled personnel are needed to operate, troubleshoot, and maintain the instrument — a challenge in smaller labs or when trained staff leave.
- Limited Utilization: Instruments often go underused due to shifts in project focus or redundant capabilities within the department.
Benefits to Your Research Group
When you integrate your flow cytometer to MFlow, your lab gains tangible benefits:
- Priority Access: Your group receives priority scheduling for using your instrument (or equivalent models in the facility).
- Reduced Costs: Lower the impact of maintenance costs by collecting fees from other users. These fees directly support the upkeep of the instrument, ensuring it remains in top condition.
- Staff Expertise: Core facility personnel manage maintenance, and training, freeing up your team’s time and reducing technical headaches.
- Extended Lifespan: Even aging instruments can be repurposed in meaningful ways by the facility, such as for training, pilot experiments, or lower-throughput applications.
Broader Benefits to the Scientific Community
- Expand Access: Help students, early-career researchers, and labs with limited funding access cutting-edge analytical tools.
- Enhance Training: Support workshops, courses, and hands-on training initiatives using a wider array of cytometers.
- Drive Collaboration: Facilitate multi-lab studies and cross-disciplinary research by providing standardized, shared equipment.
- Improve Efficiency: Centralizing instruments reduces duplication and encourages more sustainable use of institutional resources.
Let’s Build a Stronger, More Collaborative Infrastructure
MFlow is committed to maintaining high-performance cytometry capabilities that support all research teams across campus. Integrating your instrument helps us meet the growing demand while keeping costs manageable for the community.
Whether you want your cytometer’s potential to be fully used, is older or no longer fits your lab’s needs, we can evaluate its suitability for integration into the core facility’s services.
Ready to join MFlow?
We’d love to discuss how your flow cytometer can continue to serve science in new ways.
Contact us to start the conversation:
Tel.: 0251 83 53069
E-Mail: mflow@uni-muenster.de
Together, we can turn unused equipment into powerful resources that drive discovery. Thank you for considering this opportunity to give back — and move science forward.
