To Buy or to Lease? Finding funds for the purchase of flow cytometry equipment in your core facility can be challenging. In this first installment of the Tools of the Trade podcast, we discuss the leasing option offered by First American with Andrew Card and Nick Borkowski.

RAIFCA's Tools of the Trade podcast highlights lesser-known tools available to flow cytometry core facility staff and users. We do not necessarily endorse the products discussed; our goal is to help listeners gain a better understanding of them.

As much as I want to keep the ChUG podcast light and useful, we've entered a time where every piece of news we hear from the current administration is highly concerning. The media is discussing the stock market using stock images of people grabbing their face with their hands, we hear of NIH cuts and layoffs, and uncertainty is the only variable that is constant. I was happy to have Camille Stegen, Kathy Kluepfel, and Daniel Vocelle to discuss and provide some sense of clarity on how to move forward. So this is not as fun a discussion as we usually have, but I think it's a necessary one.

Regional flow cytometry are where it's at. This is what we have decided here at ChUG. We invited Aja Rieger to discuss the CoLD Summit, Karla Gorena to talk about FlowTex, and Daniel Vocelle to cover GLIIFCA. If you have unquestionably attended CYTO without any second look at other meetings, you've been missing out and this podcast is for you!
Please note: David got pretty excited and dropped some expletives in the first minute of the podcast. Then he got a hold on himself.

Edit 11/13/24: Karla Moncada Gorena is now Director of Business Development at KCAS! Congrats!

Follow these links to learn more about the meetings:
CCMA/CoLD Summit: https://www.cytometry.ca/2025-cold-summit/
FlowTex: https://www.flowtex.org
GLIIFCA: https://gliifca.org