This course will be held from April 11th to 21st 2023 and is structured as follows:

1st Week (April 11th - 13th)
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. 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.

Workshop (April 14th)
By the end of the first week, several specialists will be invited to present their data and new challenges on the use of flow cytometry on exosome analysis, immunometabolism and microbiology as well as full-spectrum cytometry and cytoff. Click here to download the workshop programme.

2nd Week (April 17th - 21st)
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 (April 24th to 28th, 2023).