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SoCal Flow SUMMIT 2015
Final Program
Thursday, April 23, 2015
8:15am – 9:00am Registration / Breakfast with coffee service
9:00am – 9:15am Opening Remarks
9:15am – 10:05am Nora Heisterkamp, PhD, USC/CHLA “Use of flow cytometry to evaluate the potential of ex-vivo expanded human NK cells for therapy of B Cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia”
10:10am – 10:30am Drake J. Smith, BS, Graduate Student, UCLA, “Genetic Engineering of Hematopoietic Stem Cells to Generate Invariant Natural Killer T Cells”
10:35am – 10:50am Cliff Ramsdell, PhD, Market Development Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific, “The Attune NxT Acoustic Focusing Cytometer, an Affordable, High Performance Analyzer”
10:50am – 11:30pm Coffee Break (Posters and Vendor Tables)
11:35am – 12:00am Shabnam Shalapour, PhD, Post Doctoral Fellow, UCSD “Identification of Tumor-Infiltrating Lymphocytes by Direct Detection of Cytokine mRNA and Protein by Flow Cytometry”. Affymetrix/eBioscience
12:05pm – 12:25pm Wei-Le Wang, MS, Graduate Student, BRI-COH, “Control of Mammalian Lymphopoiesis and Immune Response by MicroRNA-142”
12:30pm – 12:45pm Andrew Lister, D.Phil, Marketing Manager Research Products, Beckman Coulter, “Moving the Goal Posts: The CytoFLEX Cytometer Improves the Game”
12:45pm – 2:00pm Buffet Lunch (1:15-2pm Bronze Vendor Facetime)
2:05pm – 2:55pm John Joslin, PhD, Research Investigator, Novartis “Development of a fully automated ultra-high throughput flow cytometry screening system to enable novel drug discovery”
3:00pm – 3:15pm Tanya Tolmachoff, MT (ASCP), Director Sales and Marketing, De Novo Software, “Highlights of FCS Express 5”
3:15pm – 4:00pm Coffee break (Posters and Vendor tables)
4:00pm – 4:20pm SoCal Flow Business Meeting
4:25pm – 5:15 pm Keynote: J Philip McCoy, Jr. PhD, Senior Scientist, NIH. “Flow cytometry in translation medicine: Three vignettes”
5:20pm – 6:20pm Happy Hour/Poster Session
6:20pm – 20:30pm Buffet DINNER
Friday, April 24, 2015
8:15am – 9:00am Registration / FullBreakfast with coffee service
9:00am – 9:05 Opening Remarks/Announcements
9:05am – 9:30am Lisa Bellemare, PhD, Technical Application Specialist, BD Bioscience, “Incorporating Intracellular Flow Cytometry into Multicolor Panel Design”
9:35am – 10:25am Rong Lu, PhD, Assistant Professor, USC “In-vivo coordination of mouse hematopoietic stem cells”
10:30am – 10:45am Matt Alexander, PhD, Senior Cell Biology Systems Specialist, Bio-Rad, “Bio-Rad S3e: Self Service Sorting for the Core or Individual Lab”
10:45am – 11:20am Coffee break (Posters and Vendor tables)
11:20am – 11:40am Alborz Karimzadeh, BS, Graduate Student, UCI, “CD11a and EPCR as High Resolution Markers to Identify Long-Term Hematopoietic Stem Cells”
11:45am – 12:35pm Pat Simms, MS, Loyola University “Analysis of exosomes using imaging flow cytometry – A shared resource facility story”
12:40pm – 1:05pm Erica L. Stone, PhD, Assistant Professor, Wistar, “Regulation of T Helper Cell Differentiation and Function by the Transcription Factor FOXO1”. EMD Millipore
1:05pm – 2:35pm Buffet Lunch (1:50-2:35pm Bronze Vendor Facetime)
2:40pm – 3:30pm Matthew Inlay, PhD, Assistant Professor, UCI “Mapping the embryonic origins of hematopoietic stem cells”
3:35pm – 3:55pm Alexandra Lee, MS, Bioinformatics Analyst, J. Craig Venter Institute, “High-Dimensional Single Cell Data Analysis: Methods and Cyberinfrasturcture”
4:00pm – 4:15pm Jessica McClure-Kuhar, BS, Cell Signaling Technologies “Analysis of signaling pathways, intracellular protein expression, and epigenetic markers using flow cytometry”
4:15pm – 4:30pm Adjourn; Raffle, coffee and take down posters
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