Monday April 9, Day 1
8:15 – 9:00 am Registration / Breakfast
Morning Session
9:00 – 9:15
Opening Remarks
9:20 – 10:10
Ilhem Messaoudi, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine: “Mechanisms of Ebola Virus Pathogenesis”
10:15 – 10:30
Elizabeth Zhang, Ph.D., Field Application Scientist, ThermoFisher: “Expanding your Flow with novel technologies”
10:35 – 11:05
Coffee Break with vendor time
11:05 – 12:20
PANEL DISCUSSION: Standardization in Flow Cytometry
- Anna Belkina, M.D., Ph.D., Senior Research Specialist, Boston University
- Yoav Altman, B.S., Facility Director, Sanford Burnam Prebys Medical Discovery Institute
- Christopher Trussell, B.S., Sr. Scientific Technical Leader/Manager, Genomics Institute of Novartis Research Foundation
- Joseph Trotter, B.S., Principal Scientist/BD Fellow, BD Biosciences
12:20 – 1:30
Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:30 – 2:20
Anna Belkina, M.D, Ph.D., Boston University: “Revealing disease phenotypes with computational analysis of high-dimensional flow cytometry data”
2:25 – 2:40
Jennifer Boyle, B.S., Product Specialist II, Biolegend: “True-Stain Monocyte BlockerTM, an effective blocking buffer to eliminate non-specific cyanine-like dye-mediated monocyte binding”
2:45 – 3:10
Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Ruby Tandon: “Analysis of microbial community dynamics on building materials using flow cytometry”
3:15 – 3:45
Business Meeting
3:45 – 4:15
Coffee Break with vendor time
4:20 – 5:10
Keynote, Bart Roep, Ph.D., City of Hope: “Deep phenotyping of islet autoreactive and immunoregulatory T-cells in type 1 diabetes”
Evening Session
5:15 – 6:30
Poster Session and Happy Hour
6:30
Buffet Dinner
Tuesday April 10, Day 2
8:30 – 9:00
Registration and Breakfast
Morning Session
9:00 – 9:10
Introduction Day 2
9:10 – 10:00
Joseph Trotter, B.S., BD Biosciences: “Setting up and Sorting: Getting the Best Results”
10:05 – 10:30
Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Ankita Shukla: “CD11a distinguishes microglia from infiltrating monocyte-derived macrophages in Alzheimer’s Disease”
10:35 – 10:55
Coffee Break with vendor time
10:55 – 11:20
Mattias Svensson, Ph.D., Department of Medicine, University of California, San Diego: “High-throughput cytometry using the ZE5 for characterization of immune subsets during development of arthritis in mice” Sponsored by Bio-Rad
11:25 – 11:50
Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Joy Nder: “Flow Cytometry-Based Assay for Monitoring Proteolytic Cleavage at the Cell Surface”
11:55 – 12:10
Lisa Bellemare, M.S., Technical Applications Specialist, BD Bioscience: “The BD FACSMelody cell sorter combines quality results with true ease-of-use”
12:15 – 1:25
Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:25 – 1:40
Si-Han Hai, Ph.D., Supervisor-Flow Cytometry Applications West, Beckman Coulter: “Duraclone Cocktails: Standardize and Streamline your flow cytometry workflow”
1:45 – 2:35
Nadia Roan, Ph.D., University of California San Francisco: “Use of CyTOF to characterize HIV entry, replication, and remodeling in tissue CD4+ T cells”
2:40 – 3:10
Coffee Break
3:15 – 3:30
Jack Panopoulos, Ph.D., Flowjo: “Can your analysis do that? New tools for tomorrow’s problems”
3:35 – 4:00
Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Aishwarya Mandava: “Integrating Computational and Visual Analytics for Cell-Based Biomarker Discovery from Polychromatic Flow Cytometry Data”
4:00 – 4:20
Raffle and Closing remarks
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