1st London Spectral Cytometry Meeting

Oliver Burton

University of Cambridge

I got my PhD at the University of Cambridge, studying the ability of microbial products to modulate autoimmune diabetes under the supervision of Prof. Anne Cooke. I fell in love with flow cytometry and spent quite a bit of time with Nigel Miller, the head of the flow core facility. After that, I began my post-doctoral studies with Dr. Hans Oettgen at Boston Children’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. In my post-doctoral work, I focused on the aetiology and treatment of food allergies, working primarily with mouse models. In 2017 I joined Adrian Liston’s lab, at the time in Leuven, Belgium, where I was employed to develop high throughput high parameter flow panels for the analysis of tissue-resident Tregs and brain-resident immune cells. In 2019, the lab moved to the Babraham Institute in Cambridge, England where I was employed as a staff scientist, and in 2023, the lab moved again to the Department of Pathology at the University of Cambridge. In my day-to-day work, I focus on training people in best practices in flow cytometry, developing new panels and techniques for our experiments, and I work closely with bioinformaticians to develop new ways of getting meaning our of cytometry data.