The New England Cytometry Users Group’s annual Fall meeting will be October 19, 2017, from 8:00 am to 5 pm, in the Mark and Lisa Schwartz Auditorium of the Ragon Institute at 400 Technology Square in Cambridge MA. We hope you will join us!
http://www.ragoninstitute.org/contact/
Advance registration is preferred, rates are the same as last year (participants only $50.00)!! To register online, go to:
https://www.regonline.com/2017newenglandcytometry
On-site registration will be available at a slightly higher rate than pre-registration, so if you have a last-minute sort cancellation and you find yourself free, come on by!
Doors open for vendor setup at 7 am, in 100/200 Technology Square. Vendor information is available here.
There will be parking on-site at the 800 Technology Square Garage, $5 for the day. Take a ticket when you enter the garage and tell the attendant on the way out that you were at the meeting.
Our speaker lineup is as follows:
8:00am-9:00am: Registration (400 TS lobby) and Breakfast (100/200TS Atrium)
9:05am-9:15am: “Welcome and Introduction”
Mike Waring: Director, Ragon Institute Imaging Core
Rich Konz: President, New England Cytometry
9:15am-10:05am: “Understanding the immune composition of human lung cancer using spatially resolved and multiplexed/quantitative analysis”
Kurt Schalper MD., PhD. Yale Medical School Depts of Pathology and Medicine
10:05am-10:55am: “Automated Deep Immune Profiling Using Mass Cytometry”
Bruce Bagwell MD., PhD. Verity Software
10:55am-12:20pm: Lunch-(85 minutes), please visit with our vendors who support the meeting!
New this year is that Mike W will be offering an “Intro to Flow” presentation in the auditorium starting at 11:30, for our newer members (all are welcome).
12:20pm-1:10pm “Learning about human cancer, one fish at a time”
Dave Langenau PhD. Dept of Pathology MGH
1:10pm-2:00pm“3-Dimensional Imaging in Cytology–New Technology and Use Applications” David Wilbur, MD. Dept. of Pathology MGH
2:00pm-2:50pm: Afternoon Break–50 min–Please visit our vendors that sponsor the meeting!
2:50pm-3:40pm: “Imaging flow cytometry analysis of neutrophils and macrophages derived from ex-vivo cultured murine bone marrow” Margery Pelletier PhD UMass Lowell, Dept. Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology
3:40pm-4:30pm: “Ultrasensitive immunoassay for quantification of single cell analytes” J. Phillip McCoy, PhD NIH
Post-Meeting Boston User Group meeting at Cambridge Brewing Company.