Rachael Walker
Head of Flow Cytometry: Dr Rachael Walker
Building 580, Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge, CB22 3AT
rachael.walker@babraham.ac.uk
01223 496559
Rachael has over 15 years of experience in flow cytometry and cell sorting and over a dozen years of working in flow cytometry core facilities. Rachael joined the core in September 2012, following 7 years running Flow Cytometry Core Facilities at the University of Cambridge.
Rachael has extensive experience in analysis and sorting cells of differing types including; immunology, cell biology, stem cell biology, large cells such as cardiomyocytes, c. elegans eggs; organelles such as nuclei. Rachael can provide expertise in experimental setup, optimisation and analysis. She can help with optimal instrument set up, post-acquisition analysis of data and preparing figures for papers.
Education:
2005- PhD in Tissue Engineering, Department of Clinical Engineering, University of Liverpool
2001- BMedSc (Honours), Biomedical Materials Science, University of Birmingham
Flow Cytometry community
Rachael is very involved with the flow cytometry community on a local, national and international level.
Rachael’s work includes:
- Awarded International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) Scholarship 2012-2014
- Awarded ISAC ‘Emerging Leader in Shared Resource Laboratory’ Scholarship 2014-2016
- Mmeber of ISAC Flow Cytometry Content Task Force and SRL Emerging Leaders Committee
- Member of ISAC Program committee for CYTO conferences since 2010
- Chair of local Mid-Anglia Cytometry (MACC) meetings
- Secretary of flowcytometryUK, also one of main organisers of flowcytometryUK national annual meetings
- Fellow and member of Royal Microscopical Society (RMS) Cytometry Section
- Regular contributor to ‘Flow Cytometry’ Channel on Bitesize Bio website.
- Regular reviewer of papers for several journals and reviewer of international and national grants.
Latest Publications
The GPCR adaptor protein norbin suppresses the neutrophil-mediated immunity of mice to pneumococcal infection. Blood advances, 5, 16, 24 Aug 2021 PMID: 34402884 |
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Shared Resource Laboratory Operations: Changes made during Initial Global COVID-19 Lockdown of 2020. Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology, 1, 1, 11 Nov 2020 PMID: 33175466 |
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Cyt-Geist: Current and Future Challenges in Cytometry: Reports of the CYTO 2019 Conference Workshops. Cytometry. Part A : the journal of the International Society for Analytical Cytology, 95, 12, Dec 2019
DOI:
10.1002/cyto.a.23941
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