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Of those who successfully run facilities where the sorters are operated/
monitored by non-facility personnel, only Mike Sramkowski at Case Western is
running Coulter instruments this way, everyone else was running BD. With that
said, the following is a list of conditions that seemed to be pretty unanimously
supported/required in order for a facility like this to work:
1. Highly trained operator aligns and calibrates daily, and sets up sorts
(Only Stanford had others set up sorts).
2. Highly trained operator performs all trouble shooting (only one facility
taught others how to do minor troubleshooting).
3. Highly trained operator is VERY close by at all times.
Obviously the one key ingrediant is a HIGHLY TRAINED OPERATOR. Basically
everyone agreed that a SHARED sorter is a bad idea and there should be one
person responsible, with that person hand-training select individuals to
execute their own experiments with very tight restrictions and very close
monitoring. Some people actually felt that this is the best scenario, saying
that better experiments are performed, less time is wasted because individuals
can quickly see if an experiment is a bust and abort it rather than running
"just in case", and more respect is gained for the trained operator because
researchers see them as valuable consultants rather than hired hands.
Many thanks to all who replied!
Kris Weber
University of Michigan
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