New England Cytometry Meeting; Final Announcement

[Konz, Richard]

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Greetings everyone:

New England Cytometry is pleased to announce the date for our annual Fall meeting.  It will be on November 1st, 2011 from 8:00 am to 5 pm at the beautiful Starr Center at the Schepens Eye Research Institute in Boston.
http://www.schepens.harvard.edu/starr_center

We have an excellent line up of speakers again this year:

SPEAKER PRESENTATIONS":

Michael Brehm, Ph.D.
UMASS Medical School
[hidden email]
http://www.umassmed.edu/pmm/faculty/brehm.cfm
"Monitoring human immune system development and function in immunodeficient mice"

William Hyun, Ph.D.
UCSF
[hidden email]
http://cancer.ucsf.edu/people/hyun_william.php
"Exploiting the Advantages of Spectral Flow Cytometry for Biomarker Discovery"

Eric Rosenberg, M.D.
MGH
[hidden email]
http://www.massgeneral.org/transplant/doctors/doctor.aspx?ID=17081
"Acute HIV infection:Translating Pathogenesis into Opportunity"

Susan Reynolds
BD Biosciences
[hidden email]
http://www.bdbiosciences.com
Ken Lavaik
Fluidigm
http://www.fluidigm.com
"Isolation of Mouse Hematopoietic Stem Cell Side populations Using SPKLS and Post-Sort Confirmation Using Single Cell Gene Expression Analysis"

Mike Evans
Sexing Technologies
[hidden email]
http://www.sexingtechnologies.com
"Sperm Sex Sorting, A Historical Perspective"

Alan Waggoner, Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University
[hidden email]
http://www.cmu.edu/bio/faculty/waggoner.html
"Fluorescent biosensors and targeted physiological indicators for cell"

Vincent Shankey, Ph.D.
Beckman Coulter
[hidden email]
http://russiancytometryschool.org/shankey.html
"Signaling Cytometry: Flow Cytometric Analysis of Multiple Signaling Pathways in Human Leukocytes"

Charles Goolsby, Ph.D.
Northwestern University
[hidden email]
http://www.pathology.northwestern.edu/Faculty/FacultyBio.cfm?ID=11
"Normal bone marrow signal transduction profiles: a requisite for enhanced detection of signaling dysregulation in AML"

David Basiji, Ph.D.
Amnis Corporation
[hidden email]
http://www.amnis.com
"Applications of Imaging Flow Cytometry Using the Amnis FlowSight and ImageStream Platforms"

Howard Shapiro, M.D., PC.
Howard Shapiro, M.D., PC.
[hidden email]
http://www.shapirolab.com/
"Meeting Summary"


We will look forward to see you on the 1st of November.

Please check our web site for meeting updates  http://www.newenglandcytometry.com

BIG NEWS!!!

We finally have online credit card registration.  Many thanks to Steve and Carol Benoit and Glenn Paradis for all their hard work to get secure online credit card registration up and running.

To register go to:

http://www.regonline.com/Register/Checkin.aspx?EventID=987068

and register as a participant.  [$75.00]

Registration is due no later than 25 October, 2011.     If you cannot register with a credit card, please contact me directly.

This promises to be a great NECyto meeting with a terrific line up of speakers at an excellent venue.

Best regards and looking forward to see you on the 1st of November!

-Rich


Richard F. Konz, Jr.
President, New England Cytometry
http://www.newenglandcytometry.com

Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
Director, Flow Cytometry Core Facility
UMass Medical School
55 Lake Avenue North
Room: S5-322
Worcester, MA 01655
Office:  508-856-1598
Lab:     508-856-3276
Email:  [hidden email]<mailto:[hidden email]>
Lab Web:      http://www.umassmed.edu/facslab
Faculty Web: http://www.umassmed.edu/ivp/faculty/konz.cfm


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