SEFCIG 2012

3rd Annual Meeting March 8&9, 2012

The Battle House Hotel & Spa, Mobile, Alabama

Hosted by the Mitchell Cancer Institute

Preliminary Program

 

Thursday March 8, 2012
      
11:30am-5:00pm     Core Managers Meeting    
   Lunch    
       
  Jonni Moore-Univ of Pennsylvania    
  Best practices for the flow cytometry shared resource laboratory: The effective flow cytometry shared resource laboratory makes education a critical part of its mission    
       
  Jay Fox-Univ of Virginia    
  Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy  ride: how cores can best serve    
  their investigators and institutions in the current funding climate    
       
  Joanne Lannigan- Univ of Virginia    
  The development of a curriculum for business skills for core managers: A collaboration with the UVA Darden School of Business    
       
  Ryan Duggan- Univ of Chicago    
  Integrating social marketing tools as a means of increasing exposure and usage    
       
  Bob Zucker- EPA    
  Rapid flow cytometry QA independent  of manufacturers-examples using  many machines    
       
6:00pm-8:00pm Opening Reception    
  hors d'oeuvres & open bar    
       
Friday March 9, 2012      
8:00am Opening remarks    
       
8:15am Olaf Kutsch- Univ of Alabama at Birmingham    
  High-throughput flow cytometry for compound screening: Drug discovery in HIV    
       
9:00am Lawrence Lamb-Univ of Alabama at Birmingham    
  Graft qualification for advanced cell  therapy manufacturing    
       
9:45am Coffee Break    
       
10:15am Bob Zucker- EPA    
  Detection of TiO2 nanoparticles in cells  using flow cytometry and dark-field imaging    
       
11:00am Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson- NCI    
  Flow cytometric detection of T-cell clonality in diagnosis of T-cell leukemia/lymphoma    
       
11:45am Break for Lunch    
       
12:15pm Vendor Breakout Sessions with Box Lunches    
       
2:15pm Afternoon Refresment Break    
       
2:45pm Bill Hyun- Univ of California San Francisco    
  Spectral flow cytometry: overview of  the advantages and disadvantages    
       
3:30pm John Nolan- La Jolla Bioengineering Institute    
  Spectroscopy, nanoparticles, and cytometry    
       
4:15pm Mario Roderer- NIAID- Vaccine Research Center    
  Integrating transcriptomics and flow cytometry    
       
5:00pm Closing Remarks    

 

Vendor Breakout Sessions

12:15-12:45  Session 1

Amnis: Applications and Advances of the FlowSight Imaging Flow Cytometer- Dave Kennedy- Leinkauf Room

GE Healthcare: High Content Analysis Solutions from GE Healthcare

Steve Titus- TreeHouse Room

eBioscience:Optimizing Flow Cytometric Analysis of Intracellular Targets

Wendell Smith- Moonlight Room

 

12:45-1:15   Session 2

EMD Millipore:The Power of Multiplex Analysis

Robert Bunzel- Leinkauf Room

BD Biosciences:Selection, Expansion and Characterization of Candidate Therapeutic Cells- Jack Dunne- TreeHouse Room

Miltenyi Biotec:Search deeper - Utilization of the MACSQuant Analyzers for analysis of subcellular particles and microvesicles

Ashley Weant- Moonlight Room

 

1:15-1:30 Break for Room Changes

 

1:30-2:00 Session 3

Sony iCyt:TBA

Jeff Clapper- Leinkauf Room

Invitrogen:Introducing the FLoid: a new tool for your cytometry workflow

Suzanne Schloemann- TreeHouse Room

Beckman Coulter:Moving Beyond the Cell Surface: New Tool for Intracellular Flow Cytometry- Matt Hall- Moonlight Room

 

2:00-2:30   Session 4

Biolegend:Expanding Multicolor Flow with the Brilliant Violet Family of Fluorescent Polymers- Kelly Lundsten- Leinkauf Room

Cytek Development:TBA

Raymond Lannigan- TreeHouse Room

iLab Soultions:Standardized Data for Easy Reporting

Heather Lorenz- Moonlight Room