Monday April 24, Day 1: Unconventional Flow
8:15 – 9:00 Registration / Breakfast
Morning Session
9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks, Dequina Nicholas, PhD, UCI, SoCal flow Chair
9:15 – 10:05 Anshu Agrawar, PhD, UCI:
“Age-associated changes in respiratory mucosal innate immune responses”
10:10 – 10:30 Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Shannon Geels, UCI:
“PD-1 immunotherapy limits its efficacy against immunogenic melanoma by indirectly triggering Treg accumulation”
10:30 – 10:50 Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Angel Ayala, UCI:
“Glucocorticoid Pretreatment of Bone Marrow Cells Prior to allogeneic Transplantation in Mice Reduces Graft-Versus Host Disease”
10:50 – 11:20 Coffee Break, Vendors and Poster viewing
11:25 – 12:30 WORKSHOPS
- Cytek: Aric Bitton, Technical Applications Specialist
“Debunking Antibody Titration Myths”
Room: Balboa - Sony: Jerry Barnhart, Manager, Field Applications
“A guide to build successful panels on the SONY ID7000 Spectral Analyzer”
Room: Newport - Slingshot Bio: Jack Panopoulos, Ph.D., Director, Application Science:
“Killing Two Birds with One Stone: Addressing Spectral Unmixing and Compensation Errors in Flow Data”
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 – 1:45 Rafael Gomez-Amaro, PhD, BD Bioscience Product Talk:
“The Future of Discovery: BD CellView™ Image Technology”
1:50 – 2:40 Francisco Martinez-Hernandez, PhD, CalTech
“Small, smaller the smallest: The use of flow cytometer in the “nanoworld”
2:45 – 3:00 Jerry Barnhart, Sony Product Talk
T“Using the ID7000™Autofluorescence Finder To Improve Data Quality”
3:05 – 3:20 Kenta Yamamoto, PhD, Biolegend Product Talk “Back to Basics: Antibody Development, Characterization, and Validation at BioLegend”
3:20 – 3:50 Coffee Break, Vendors and Poster viewing
3:55 – 4:10 Business Meeting
4:15 – 5:05 KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Timothy O’Sullivan, PhD, UCLA “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
5:05 – 6:30 Happy Hour Sponsored by Bio-Rad/Poster Session/Adjourn
Tuesday April 25, Day 2: Translational Flow
8:30 – 9:00 Registration / Breakfast
Morning Session
9:00 – 9:05 Introduction Day 2
9:05 – 9:55 Lisa Wagar, PhD, UCI:
“Predicting immunogenicity using human tonsil organoids”
10:00 – 10:20 Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Naveena Ujagar, UCI:
“Phlow:A spectral flow cytometry approach for enumerating nanoscopic bacteriophage particles”
10:25 – 10:40 Joe Ostrand, PhD, Miltenyi Bioscience Product Talk:
“Tales from the Clinic: A glimpse at translational cytometry from a CGT company”
10:40 – 11:10 Coffee Break, Vendors and Poster viewing
11:15 – 11:30 Thermo Fisher Product Talk “Leveraging novel fluorophore technologies to interrogate critical cell and gene therapy questions in high dimensional immune profiling”
11:35 – 11:55 Excellence in Cytometry Award Recipient, Anna Nikolenko, Biolegend:
“Flow-based Applications for Deep Characterization of Viral-and Self-Peptide Induced Cellular Immune Responses”
12:00 – 12:25 Zach Wagoner, Grad Student, UCI, sponsored by Cytek, Scientific Talk: “Building a predictive model of vaccine efficacy using human tonsil organoids”
12:25 – 1:25 Lunch
Afternoon Session
1:30 – 2:20 Lior Goldberg, M.D., City of Hope National Cancer Center:
“Dissecting CAR T cell spatiotemporal biology using Mass Cytometry”
2:20 – 2:50 Coffee Break with Vendor Time
2:55 – 3:55 WORKSHOPS
- Beckman Coulter: Alina Lelic, Ph.D., Market Development Manager for Flow Cytometry, Beckman Coulter LS,
“FLOWing from research to assay development”
Room: Balboa - Partillion: Jesse Liang, Ph.D., Product Strategy and Development Lead,
“Uncover Novel Insights into Cell Secretions Through Next-Generation Functional Flow Cytometry Using Nanovial Technology”
Room: Newport - Bio-Rad: Nicole Rubin, PhD, Bio-Rad Laboratories, Genomics Field Applications Scientist,
“The Power of Partitioning: Precise Confirmation from Rare Target Discovery to Clinical Answers with Absolute DNA Quantification”
Room: Executive Dining Room - Flow Core Managers Roundtable
Room: Auditorium
3:55 – 4:10 Drawings and Closing remarks