Biosciences Research Seminar - Exeter Cytomics Centre: Your Partner for Qualitative - Quantitative High Speed Single Cell Analysis

Dr Raif Yuecel has recently joined the University of Exeter as Cytometry lead PI and Head of the newly established Cytomics Centre at Biosciences in CLES at the Streatham Campus. He completed his PhD & post-doctoral work at the University Duisburg-Essen, where he gained his passion for Cytometry technologies. Before joining the University of Exeter, he worked at the University of Aberdeen as the Head of the Iain Fraser Cytometry Centre (IFCC), in the industry sector as Cytometry Study Director and Project Manager at Phillip Morris International and as Global Product Manager for In Vivo Imaging and Cytometry at Miltenyi Biotec GmbH (Germany), where he gained substantial experience in scientific marketing and commercialisation. Raif has a strong grounding in basic and translational research and the validation of industrial conformity assays, which are essential for establishing and supervising a high-quality research unit.

Flow cytometry (FCM) is a very powerful quantitative cellular analysis technique for the complex characterization of particles, cells and cell populations on single cell level.

The complexities of these flow cytometry technologies are at many levels, including instrumentation, experimental design, data analysis, and data interpretation. Given these complexities, together with the high cost of the instrumentation, the University of Exeter has established the Exeter Cytomics Centre to provide communal access to a state-of-the-art cytometry technology. In order for flow cytometry to be used in an industrial or academic research setting, measurements must be made precisely and with certainty.

The Centre is equipped with cutting-edge technologies such as Imaging Flow Cytometry, Multiplexing, Acoustic Focusing Cytometry, Spectral Cytometry, and innovative FACS for polychromatic cytometry, high-speed Cell Sorters and high-performance Data Analysis IT structures. The Centre will provide expertise and service for scientists from various research areas at the University of Exeter, external academics and the commercial scientific community. Because of the advanced capability and multi-parameter instrumentation, the Cytomics Centre has the expertise and experience in sorting and analysing research questions around Biomedical Science, Mycology, Fish Immunology, Microbiology, Environmental Science and Plant research.