CHIRI Senior Technical Officer, Jeanne Edmands.

When it comes to its facilities, the Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute (CHIRI) knows sharing is caring.

Just ask our Senior Technical Officer (STO) Jeanne Edmands, who this month represented CHIRI at the annual Australasian Cytometry Society (ACS) Roadshow in Sydney, Australia.

Jeanne is the STO for CHIRI’s Flow Cytometry shared resource facility, located at the institute’s premises at Curtin University in Bentley, Western Australia.

Held at the Westmead Institute for Medical Research, the one-day roadshow saw cytometry staff come together to discover emerging technologies and fields in cytometry and to discuss key components of the Shared Resource Laboratory experience.

The event featured a scientific lecture on ‘Understanding technology and its application in scientific workflows – a focus on high end technologies’, which covered hot topics such as high dimensional fluorescence flow, cellular genomics, mass cytometry and spectral cytometry. An afternoon focus group then discussed the ‘Integration of cytometry and genomics: the single cell arena’.

“The global cytometry community is collaborative and helpful, and it’s great to come together in these focus sessions to discuss the many factors to be considered in Shared Laboratory Resources like we have here at CHIRI,” Jeanne said.

“Events like the roadshow support us to implement and contribute to best practice research facilities and continue to work towards excellence in every area.”

Jeanne’s travel to the roadshow was supported by an ACS travel grant.

The roadshow also visited Brisbane and Melbourne.

More information about CHIRI’s facilities is available on our website chiri.curtin.edu.au/facilities/.