2014 New England Cytometry User Group Meeting

Thank you to all participants in the 2014 New England Cytometry User Group Meeting!  Below you will find links to the presentations from our excellent speakers. We look forward to next year!

Hank Pletcher
“Biosafety and Cell Sorting:  A Review of the New ISAC Standards”
PDF linked HERE.

D. Robert Sutherland, MSc
“Recent Developments in Sensitive Multi-parameter Flow Cytometry to detect PNH Red and White Blood Cells”
PDF linked HERE.
If the histograms in slide 38 show up blank, jpg of slide HERE.

Scott Mordecai
“Integrating Imaging Flow Cytometry into a Flow Core Lab”
PDF linked HERE. (Updated 10/20/14)

Dr. Paul Wallace, PhD
“Flow Cytometric Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Multiple Myeloma”
PDF linked HERE.

Dr. Mark Niedre, Ph.D.
“Detection and Enumeration of Rare Circulating Cells with In Vivo Flow Cytometry”
PDF linked HERE.

Joanne Lannigan, MS
“Successful Strategies for Successful Cores”
View the Prezi-based presentation HERE.

John Daley, BS
“Mobilizing Mass Cytometry:  Where do we go from here?”
PDF linked HERE.

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The New England Cytometry Users Group’s annual Fall meeting will be on October 2nd, 2014 from 8:00 am to 5 pm at the beautiful Starr Center at the Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston.  We hope you will join us!
http://www.schepens.harvard.edu/the-starr-center/core-services/the-starr-center.html

Online Credit Card Registration is now active.  Please note that registration is due no later than 26 September, 2014. If you cannot register with a credit card, please contact Rich Konz directly at the email below.  We continue to keep the rates the same as the past several years (participant rate is $75.00).  Visit the link below to register:
https://www.regonline.com/2014newenglandcytometry

We have an excellent speaker lineup for our meeting this year:

8:00am-9:00am:
Registration and Breakfast

9:00am-9:15am
“Introduction and Notes”
Richard Konz
President, New England Cytometry

9:15am-10:00am
“Biosafety and Cell Sorting:  A Review of the New ISAC Standards”
Hank Pletcher
Flow Cytometry & Cell Sorting Resource Laboratory
Perelman School of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania
297 John Morgan Building
3620 Hamilton Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104
pletcher@mail.med.upenn.edu

10:00am-10:45am
“Recent Developments in Sensitive Multi-parameter Flow Cytometry to detect PNH Red and White Blood Cells”
D. Robert Sutherland, MSc
Professor Department of Medicine University of Toronto
Technical Director Clinical Flow Cytometry
Laboratory Medicine Program
TGH/UHN
rob.sutherland@utoronto.ca

10:45am-11:30am
“Integrating Imaging Flow Cytometry into a Flow Core Lab”
Scott Mordecai
Laboratory of Flow and Image Cytometry
Department of Pathology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston MA 02114
SMORDECAI@PARTNERS.ORG

11:30am-1:00pm
Lunch and open vendor exhibits–please visit our vendors who support our meetings.

1:00pm-1:45pm
“Flow Cytometric Detection of Minimal Residual Disease in Multiple Myeloma”
Dr. Paul Wallace, PhD
Professor of Oncology
Director, Flow and Image Cytometry Facility
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Buffalo NY
pkw@rpciflow.org

1:45pm-2:30pm
“Detection and Enumeration of Rare Circulating Cells with In Vivo Flow Cytometry”
Dr. Mark Niedre, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
213B Lake Hall
Northeastern University
Boston, MA, 02115
mniedre@ece.neu.edu

2:30pm-3:15pm
Afternoon Break–please visit our vendors who support our meetings.

3:15pm-4:00pm
“Successful Strategies for Successful Cores”
View the Prezi-based presentation here.
Joanne Lannigan, MS
University of Virginia
School of Medicine
1300 Jefferson Park Ave.
Jordan Hall, Rm 7067
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0734
jl7fj@virginia.edu

4:00pm-4:45pm
“Mobilizing Mass Cytometry:  Where do we go from here?”
John Daley, BS
Research Associate in Medicine
Department of Medicine
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Mayer 584
44 Binney St
Boston MA 02115
John_Daley@dfci.harvard.edu

-Rich
Richard F. Konz
President, New England Cytometry
Richard.Konz@umassmed.edu