New England Cytometry Users Group Meeting - Thanks!

[Konz, Richard]

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Greetings everyone:

On behalf of the organizing committee of the New England Cytometry Users Group, I would like to take a moment to thank the people who made our meeting "Current Research in Flow and Image Cytometry" which was held on October 18th, 2007 at the Boston Marriot Cambridge Center a success.

First; our panel of true world class speakers who gave excellent presentations on cutting-edge science and technology:

Charles [Chuck] Goolsby, Ph.D. - Northwestern University

Anne E. Carpenter, Ph.D. - MIT Broad Institute

JeanMarie Houghton, MD, Ph.D., G.O.T.U. - UMASS Medical School

C. Bruce Bagwell, MD, Ph.D. - Verity Software House

Simon Watkins, Ph.D. - University of Pittsburg School of Medicine

Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, Ph.D. - New York Medical College

Howard Shapiro, MD

Next; I would like to thank the support of our vendors who provide us with the tools to assist us with our Research and provided the financial support to make our meeting a reality:

Advalytix AG   
Amnis  
Beckman Coulter

BD Biosciences

Cell Signaling Technology

Cellumen

CompuCyte Corporation

Cytek

DAKO

Definiens

eBioscience

Evergreen laser

Guava

i-Cyt

Invitrogen / Molecular Probes

Intellicyte

Olympus

Omega Optical

Roche

Spherotech

Stemcell Technologies

Thermo Fisher Scientific Laboratory

Automation and Cellular Imaging

Tree Star

Union Biometrica

Verity Software House

And last but by no means least, my colleagues on the NECyto organizing committee who did all the work putting this meeting together.  No small feat!

Thanks for all your efforts and keeping me sane [mostly sane]!

Natasha Barteneva
Steve Benoit
John Daley
David Gebhard
Glenn Paradis

Allen Parmelee

Nancy Perlmutter

Fred Preffer

Peter Schaefer

All my best regards,

-Rich

       
Richard F. Konz, Jr.

President, New England Cytometry

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine

Graduate Faculty, Immunology and Virology Program

Director, Flow Cytometry Core Facility

UMass Medical School

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