This course will be held from May 11th to 29th, 2026 and is structured as follows:

1st Week (May 11-15, 2026)
This week will be dedicated to explore, using interactive and student-centered strategies, principles of cell functional and phenotypical analysis including fundamental concepts on antibodies, fluorochrome selection as well as the fundamentals of flow cytometry and cell sorting. Emphasis will be given to the detection and analysis of extracellular vesicles (a tool available at the new flow cytometer). Lectures and discussions will be followed by hands-on laboratory sessions on a wide variety of flow cytometry techniques ranging from experimental set-up, sample preparation, data acquisition and data analysis.

2nd Week (May 18-22, 2026)
This week will be dedicated to advanced flow cytometry techniques on the analysis of RNA, cell cycle, cell death, metabolism and cytokine quantification.

For the students enrolled in the MSc and PhD programs of the School of Medicine, the course will have 1 mandatory additional week (May 25-29, 2026).