About us

FluoroFinder Story

We empower scientists with an experiment design platform that increases the speed and quality of their research. We do so by providing streamlined workflow tools that leverage a comprehensive collection of instrument configurations and antibodies from all suppliers to simplify fluorescence experiment design, eliminating costly errors.

Seeing talented researchers struggle for hours to design successful experiments by hand, it became obvious that improvements were needed. In 2014, we commercially released the first version of our panel design tool from the University of Colorado’s Technology Transfer Office.

We have always believed in the power of collaboration, especially when it comes to scientific research. To this day, we continue to collaborate with the scientific community to provide a robust platform to automate fluorescence experiment design, learn and collaborate.

FluoroFinder Team

Our team is comprised of experienced leaders in life sciences, online platforms, customer experience, and corporate development.

Core Team

Daren Young, CEO

Kelly Lundsten, Director of Strategic Product Innovation

Scott Meade, Architect

Sophie Kalser, Account Executive - Partnerships

Miriam Aragon, Software Engineer

Kathryn Friend, APAC Consultant

Lauren Brand, Marketing Consultant

Ryan Metzler, Customer Success Manager

Kara Fagan, Interim Chief Marketing Officer

Ryan Roessler, Partner & Data Specialist

Carter Magee, Software Engineer

Mollie Juberien, Global Marketing Manager

Board of Directors

Ron Lowy, Co-Chairman of the Board

John Allen, Co-Chairman of the Board

William S. Marshall Ph.D., Member of the Board

Roland Marcus, Founder, Member of the Board

Karen Padgett, Member of the Board

Scientific Advisors

Dr. Anna Brooks, Director at Auckland Cytometry, Flow Cytometry Consultant

Dr. Yolanda Mahnke, President at FlowKnowHow LLC

Dr. Rui Garder, Head of Flow Cytometry Core Facility Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Sebastien Coquery, CEO at WORK-FLOW | Sr. Manager Flow Cytometry at Regeneron Pharmaceuticals

Dr. Ben Daniel, Director, Research Flow Cytometry Core Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Thank you for providing an absolutely stellar service! In my book, FluoroFinder is the undisputed champion of online panel design and my

most treasured tool for locating the antibodies that are actually available. Your attention to “simple”, yet very useful details of the user interface (such as the pop-up spectra and on-the-fly spillover estimates) is appreciated.

Mikkel Steen Petersen, PhD MSc | Clinical Flow Cytometrist, Aarhus University Hospital

FluoroFinder is clearly becoming the gold-standard tool for flow cytometry panel design.

Howie Seay | Flow Core Manager, University of Florida

I have to say, this is fantastic. I’ve been playing with it for 5 minutes and already found a bunch of alternate antibodies for problem channels that I had no idea existed. I could literally have saved weeks of accumulated time trying to chase down antibodies over the past year.

Chris Plescia | Senior Scientist, Epizyme

FluoroFinder makes building flow cytometry panels ridiculously simple. They provide you with available antibodies that match your desired markers, allow you to pick colors that fit with your available lasers and save your panels for future reference. I use FluoroFinder every time I build a new panel.

Michelle Larson | Research Specialist, Loyola University

FluoroFinder has become part of my routine. It is user-friendly and instead of having to look for available commercial reagents, it provides them all! Even better, the panel can be personalized to be used for the machines of my institution. I would recommend it to everyone that uses flow cytometry.

Maria V. Guijarro | Postdoc Associate, University of Florida

The one time I did not use FluoroFinder to verify someone’s question I missed a mistake!

Victoria Smith | Flow Core Manager, University of Nebraska Medical Center

FluoroFinder has been a great way to boost our consultations and learn more about our investigators’ research.

Brandon Saxton | Flow Core Manager, Baylor College of Medicine

I am effectively the facility manager for multiple sites and I also run quite a few theory training courses each year. As part of these courses I teach panel design, and yours is by far the best and easiest way to do that, so I tell all of my trainees about it!

Dr Graham Bottley Trainer/Facility Manager, InCytometry

The service really helps me help our customers without taking a lot of time. I can send them to the website and they can build their own panels with quick success. I also send our customers who just want to find out if there is a manufacturer of conjugated antibody for their particular target.

Christine Childs | Senior Professional Research Assistant, University of Colorado, Cancer Center Flow Cytometry Shared Resource