Bio 632 Introductory Course in Flow Cytometry

Date & Registration

The registration for the ONLINE Bio 632 course is open:

Please note that the next Bio632 course, Oct 21st - Oct 23rd 2025 is planned to be fully remote. The instrument sessions will be run as a demonstration session from on of the facility members.

Please register via web form

Registration for our January ON-SITE edition of the course will not open before November 6th.

Course fees are listed here. The course is free of charge for bachelor, master and PhD students of university Zurich.

General information

This beginner course provides a systematic introduction to flow cytometry via a series of lectures and workshops. The course includes theory session on instrument layout, panel design, fluorescence and detection of fluorescence, spectral features, controls in flow cytometry, data structure & visualization and principles of manual data analysis. The theory will be complemented by practical workshops on compensation, panel design and manual data analysis.

During the instrument sessions you will record various experiments on one of our instruments. The course will guide you through a complete cytometry experiment. Starting from staining PBMCs, recording controls & samples and finally analyzing the data of our 6 color demo T-reg panel.

1 ECTS for the course