Summit 2014: Program

SoCal Flow SUMMIT 2014 Program

Monday, March 24, 2014

8:15am – 9:00am: Registration, Continental Breakfast with coffee service
9:00am – 9:15am: Opening Remarks
9:15am – 10:05am: Maurice O’Gorman, Ph.D, MSc, D(AMBLI), MBA.Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. “The Use of Flow Cytometry for the Assessment of Primary Immunodeficiency Disease”
10:10am – 10:30am: Stefan Jellbauer, Ph.D. UC Irvine. “Immunophenotyping of Neutrophil subpopulations during Salmonella Typhimurium Colitis.”
10:30am – 10:45am: Life Technologies: Jim Princi, Life Technologies. “The next generation in Acoustic Focusing – Attune NxT”
10:45am – 11:30pm: Coffee Break (Posters and Vendor Tables)
11:35am – 12:00am: DVS Sciences:  Ryan L McCarthy, Ph.D. MD Anderson Cancer Center.   “Pluripotency and differentiation at the single cell level:  Understanding Stem Cell Heterogeneity by CyTOF mass cytometry.”
12:05pm – 12:25pm: Brent Kern, BA, Pfizer. “Receptor co-occupancy and internalization of an anti-IL-7 receptor antibody.”
12:30pm – 2:00pm: Buffet Lunch
2:00pm – 2:50pm: Scott Kitchen, Ph.D. UCLA. “A stem cell based approach for engineering anti-HIV immunity”
2:55pm – 3:10pm: Sony: Vladi Cherepakhin, Ph.D. Sony. “Spectral Flow Cytometry from Sony Biotechnology.”
3:10pm – 3:55pm: Coffee break (Posters and Vendor tables)
4:00pm – 4:20pm: SoCal Flow Business Meeting
4:25pm – 5:15 pm: Keith Kelley, MS. Amgen. “Applications of Flow Cytometry to the Characterization of Aggregates in Therapeutic Proteins.”
5:20pm – 6:20pm: Happy Hour/Poster Session
6:20pm – 20:30pm: Buffet DINNER & CORE MANAGER’S MEETING

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

8:15am – 9:00am: Registration, Continental Breakfast with coffee service
9:00am – 9:25am: EMD Millipore: Mark Hildebrand, Ph.D. Scripps Institution of Oceanography. “Application of Imaging Flow Cytometry for Marine Biotechnology”
9:30am – 10:20am: Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, Ph.D. New York Medical College. Keynote Speaker. “Cytometric Assessment of DNA Damage – and mTOR – signaling, the Factors Contributing to Aging”
10:25am – 10:40am: Beckman Coulter: Christopher Trindade, MD. Beckman Coulter.  “Beckman Coulter Innovation: Dry Reagents and the ONE Study”
10:40am – 11:25am: Coffee break  (Posters and Vendor tables)
11:25am – 11:45am: Eric D. Diebold, Ph.D. UCLA. “Digitally-synthesized beat frequency multiplexing for ultra-high throughput imaging flow Cytometry”
11:50am – 12:40pm: Marcin Kortylewski, Ph.D. City of Hope Medical Center.  “Dissecting mechanisms of STAT3-mediated immuno suppression in mouse and human tumor models using flow Cytometry”
12:40pm – 2:10pm: Buffet Lunch
2:10pm – 2:25pm: Affymetrix eBioscience: Matt Cato, MS. Affymetrix eBioscience. “RNA by Flow Cytometry: The power of branched DNA”
2:30pm – 3:20pm: Craig Walsh, PhD. UC Irvine. “Using flow cytometry to investigate T cell death mechanisms and immune tolerance”
3:25pm – 3:40pm: Bio-Rad: Matt Alexander, Ph.D.  Bio-Rad. “Walk away sorting with the Bio-Rad S3; Adding capability without burden”
3:45pm – 4:05pm: Christine M. Evangelista, MS., Amgen. “Co-lyophilization of PGD2 assay control and quantum dot nanocrystals to trace experimental variables and analytes in a Whole Blood Flow Cytometric Assay.”
4:05pm – 4:20pm: Adjourn; Raffle, coffee and take down posters

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