**Meet the editor**

Marica Gemei started her career in the field of flow cytometry within her PhD experience at CEINGE in Naples, where she worked for six years in a flow cytometry facility equipped with the most advanced of instruments; this allowed her to exploit the potential of flow cytometry to its utmost. Her work in the field of flow cytometry was successful and gained tens of collaborations

and valuable publications. She further exploited her experience, propensity for innovation and open mind by growing up in the variegate world of flow cytometry and the industrial drug discovery and development field and moving to the pharmaceutical industry in 2014, first as a researcher and then as a manager. Now she is an appreciated consultant and project manager for preclinical and clinical drug development programs in different biotech and pharmaceutical companies such as Dompé Farmaceutici SpA with which she has a long-lasting and profitable collaboration.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Flow Cytometry 1**

**Cytometry 43**

**Medical Devices 63**

**Microalgae 81** Toshiyuki Takahashi

Gervaise Loirand and David Murray

Chapter 1 **Accurate and High Sensitivity Identification of PNH Clones by**

Chapter 2 **Insight into the Leukemia Microenvironment and Cell-cell Interactions Using Flow Cytometry 19**

Marta D. Kolba, Agata Kominek and Ewa Kozlowska

Chapter 3 **High Throughput Screen for Inhibitors of Rac1 GTPase by Flow**

Chapter 4 **Multidimensional Flow Cytometry for Testing Blood-Handling**

Chapter 5 **Efficient Interpretation of Multiparametric Data Using Principal**

Ina Laura Pieper, Gemma Radley and Catherine A. Thornton

**Component Analysis as an Example of Quality Assessment of**

Iuri Marinov, Andrea Illingworth and D. Robert Sutherland

Katarzyna Piwocka, Paulina Podszywalow-Bartnicka, Julian Swatler,

Catherine Bardelle, Vincent Sauzeau, Mark B. Carter, Zhaoping Liu,
