Monday April 25, Day 1
8:15 – 9:00 Registration / Coffee
Morning Session
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks
9:15 – 10:05 Begonya Comin-Anduix, UCLA
“Using Flow and Mass cytometry to characterize transgenic and non- transgenic cells in whole blood from a phase 1 clinical trial”
10:10 – 10:30 Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Partillion Bioscience Corporation, Lucienne Bolser
“High-throughput sorting of single cells based on secreted proteins using nanovial technology and flow cytometry”
10:30 – 10:50 Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Minye Zhou, UCSD
“Assessment of dimension reduction and machine learning optimization methods for clinical flow cytometry data analysis”
10:50 – 11:20 Coffee Break, Vendors and Poster viewing
Sponsored by Millipore Sigma
11:25 – 12:30 WORKSHOPS
- Sony Biotechnology: Jerry Barnhart, Manager, Field Applications
“Panel design considerations and software tools for enabling high dimensional flow cytometry on the ID7000 spectral cell analyzer”
Room: Balboa - Beckman Coulter: James McCracken, PhD, Commercial Product Manager
“Cell Sorting for Every Lab with CytoFLEX SRT”
Room: Newport - Fluidigm: Connie Inlay, PhD, Senior Field Applications Specialist
“Heavy Metals Rock: See how easy it is to get Rock Star results with suspension mass cytometry and imaging mass cytometry”
Room: Executive Dining Room - Scientific Communication: Andrea Loewendorf, CEO ImmunoVation
“So what’s YOUR story: How to present a scientific talk that people will remember”
Room: Auditorium
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:30 – 2:20 Justin Lee, UCLA-Caltech
“Engineering immune cells as ultrasound reporters for cancer diagnosis”
2:25 – 2:40 Joe Ostrand, Flow Cytometry Specialist, Miltenyi Biotec
“MACSQuant Tyto: If it were any easier, the cells would sort themselves”
2:45 – 3:00 Katie Tuttle, Scientific Advisor, BD Biosciences
“Traditional and Spectral Flow Cytometry on the BD FACSymphony A5 SE Analyze”
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break, Vendors and Poster viewing (Sponsored by Millipore Sigma)
3:35 – 4:25 KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Akil Merchant, Cedars-Sinai
“Single cell architecture of the immune microenvironment in lymphoma”
4:30 – 4:45 Jack Panopoulos, PhD, BD Biosciences-Informatics, FlowJo
“Vidi vici idolum: A guide to conquering high dimensional data from clean-up to trajectory”
Tuesday April 26, Day 2
8:30 – 9:00 Registration / Coffee
Morning Session
9:00 – 9:05 Introduction Day 2
9:05 – 9:55 Will Alaynick, Nanocellect
“Challenges in cell viability and nucleic acid integrity: how can microfluidics help?”
10:00 – 10:20 Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Mahina Tabassum Mitul, UCI
“Sex-based differences in influenza vaccine and adjuvant responses in human tonsil organoids”
10:20 – 10:45 Pratip Chattopadhay, PhD, Founder & CEO of Talon Biomarkers, sponsored by DeNovo Software
“From Imagination to Implementation: High Content Immune Analysis”
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break with vendor time and poster viewing (Sponsored by Leinco)
11:20 – 11:40 Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Esha Chawla, UCLA
“The Effect of CLR12 Treatment in the P301-S Tauopathy Mouse Model on Tau Seeding”
11:40 – 12:00 Business Meeting
12:00 – 12:30 Poster Session
12:30 – 1:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:30 – 2:20 Michael Hicks, UCI
“Asymmetric muscle wasting in human inclusion body myositis using high dimensional mass cytometry”
2:25 – 2:40 Matthew A. Rodrigues, PhD, Instrument Field Application Scientist, Luminex
“Extracellular Vesicle Analysis using the CellStream Flow Cytometer”
2:45 – 3:00 Angelo Moreno, PhD, Field Application Scientist, Biolegend
“Emerging technologies and platforms for in-depth cellular phenotyping”
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee Break with vendor time (Sponsored by Leinco)
3:30 – 4:00 Poster Highlights lighting talks
4:00 – 4:20 Raffle and Closing remarks