Quantitative Imaging Cytometry Course

[Roberts, Denise]

This is a reminder that the 2009 Quantitative Imaging Cytometry Course, to be
held on February 10, 11, and 12, 2009 at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on
Long Island, New York. Registration and poster submission are now open at the
Center’s website, www.imagingcytometrycenter.com

Scientific presentations each morning will include the following:

Day 1 – Emergence of Quantitative Imaging Cytometry
• Keynote presentation: The Science and Technology of Imaging
Cytometry – J. Paul Robinson, SVM Professor of Cytomics, Professor of
Immunopharmacology & Biomedical Engineering Director, Purdue University
Cytometry Laboratories, W. Lafayette, IN and President, International Society
for Analytical Cytology

• Laser Scanning Cytometry: An Expanding Role in Biomedical Imaging
Analysis – William Telford, PhD, Director, Flow Cytometry Core Laboratory,
National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

• Investigation of a Role of a Protein Phosphatase in
Neurodegeneration – Li Li, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring
Harbor,  NY

• Applications of Laser Scanning Cytometry for Cell and Tissue Analysis
in Cancer Research – Heather Zecchini, PhD, Light Microscopy Laboratory,
Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, Cambridge UK

Day 2 – Cell-Based Applications
• Assessment of DNA Damage by High-Resolution Laser Scanning
Cytometry – Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, PhD, Director, Brander Cancer
Research Institute, Valhalla, NY

• Capturing signaling events in the immune system in situ - Margaret
Harnett, Professor of Immune Signaling, Division of Immunology, Infection and
Inflammation, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow,
Scotland, UK

• Regulation of Cell Cycle Transitions – James Jacobberger, PhD,
Professor of Oncology, Case Western Reserve University, and Director, Cell
Analysis Core, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland OH

• Cell-Based Assays to Address Toxicology Issues in Pre-Clinical Drug
Development Using Laser Scanning Cytometry – Padma Narayanan, PhD,
Director, Investigative Toxicology, Amgen, Inc., Seattle, WA

• Laser Scanning Cytometry Analysis of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells in
Pre-Clinical Models of Cancer – Alison L. Allan, PhD, London Regional Cancer
Program, London Health Sciences Centre, University of Western Ontario,
London, ON

• How Laser Scanning Cytometry Opened a Door to Study Cellular
Inflammation and Apoptosis in Chronic Lung Disease - Andrew J. Halayko, PhD,
Manitoba Institute of Child Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Day 3 – Tissue-Based Applications
• Keynote presentation: Spatial Analysis of Hematopoietic Stem and
Progenitor Cells in Bone Marrow – Leslie Silberstein, MD, Director, JPTM,
Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's
Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

• Function Follows Form: The Value of Morphology in the Cytometric
Assessment of Cells and Tissues – William Geddie, MD, Department of
Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, Toronto General Hospital, University
Health Network, University of Toronto, ON

• Laser Scanning Cytometry in Autism Research – Janine LaSalle, PhD,
University of California at Davis, Davis, CA

• Application of Laser Scanning Cytometry in Biomarker Drug
Development: Challenges and Opportunities - Gloria Juan, PhD, Clinical
Immunology, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA

• Mapping of Tissue Architecture for Cells with Shorter Telomere
Lengths – Alexei Protopopov, PhD, Center for Applied Cancer Science, Dana-
Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

• Evaluation of Mitochondria and Peroxisomes in Single Cells and Tissue
Sections Using Quantitative Imaging Cytometry – David Krull, GlaxoSmithKline
Safety Assessment, Research Triangle Park, NC

Afternoon practical hands-on sessions:
• Designing high-content quantitative imaging cytometry experiments –
Raffi Manoukian, CompuCyte Corporation, William Telford, NIH and Andrea
Holme, National University of Singapore

• Multi-color solid-phase cell cycle analysis (adherent cells) – Lead
instructors:  James Jacobberger, Tammy Stephan, Case Comprehensive Cancer
Center, Cleveland OH

• Multi-color fluorescent and chromatic tissue analysis – David Krull,
GlaxoSmithKline Safety Assessment, Research Triangle Park, NC

• Biomarker validation/ FNA studies – TBD

• FNA immunophenotyping - William Geddie, Princess Margaret Hospital,
University of Toronto, ON

Registration and poster submission are now open at the Center’s website,
www.imagingcytometrycenter.com