Joanna Roberts Australasian Cytometry Society 2016 Annual Conference

Joanna Roberts

Joanna is a flow cytometry specialist based in New Zealand working as a consultant on flow cytometry projects in Universities, Research Institutes and Biotech companies. Joanna’s company Flowjoanna has been successfully pursuing the aim of supporting researchers to get the best data from their projects for five years. Projects involve immune phenotyping studies in humans and animal models using flow and mass cytometry, cell biology techniques for cancer biology, and flow cytometry for microbiological and ecological assays. Prior to creating Flowjoanna, Joanna worked as a flow cytometry specialist for AgResarch Ltd, a Crown Research Institute in New Zealand. Before that, she set up and managed the Flow Cytometry Platform at the EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Lausanne, Switzerland. Joanna first discovered flow cytometry in the lab of Prof Graham Le Gros at the Malaghan Institute of Medical Research (MIMR) while studying the immune response to influenza infection. During her time at MIMR she was solely responsible for setting up the flow cytometry platform including their first cell sorter. Joanna joined the ACS for the first time in 2003. She is also a member of the Australasian Society for Immunology and the International Society for Analytical Cytometry.