Re: 2008 NW Regional Cytometry Meeting at OHSU, March 13 - 15

[Allan Kachelmeier]

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To all on the confocal list,

In behalf of the imaging and flow community of the Pacific Northwest,
I am pleased to announce and invite you to the 2008 NW Regional
Cytometry Meeting, 'Flow and Imaging for an ~omics era'. The meeting
will be held in Portland on March 13 - 15 in the Old Library at OHSU.
The roster is outstanding, with 18 plenary speakers covering a range
including flow- and image-cytometry, biosensors, and high throughput
screening. The meeting will provide an opportunity to network with
others from both academia and industry, with discussion ranging from
Minimum Information Standards on March 13th, to functional assays,
probes, and flow- and imaging-based high throughput methods on March
14th and 15th. Instrumentation, as well, will be on demo (see page 2
of the brochure for a partial listing).

Speakers include J. Paul Robinson, Peter Krutzik, Dorothy Lewis, Ger
van den Engh, Ed Walker, Chris D. Geddes, Alan Waggoner, Bob Murphy,
Bob Zucker, James Jacobberger, Larry Sklar, David Basiji, Mike
Samuels, Iain Johnson, Rick Monsma, Doug Auld, Ghislain Bonamy, and
Michael A. Mancini.

Sponsors include Oregon Hearing Research Center, BD Biosciences,
Beckman Coulter, Invitrogen, PerkinElmer, Amnis Corp., Cytopeia, Dako,
CompuCyte, TTPLabtech, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Accelrys, Accuri
Cytometers, Applied Cytometry Systems, BioLegend, Chi-Square Works,
Cell Signaling Technology, Cytek Development, De Novo Software,
FloCyte Associates, Guava Technologies, iCyt Mission Technology,
IntelliCyt, Miltenyi Biotec, MDS Analytical Technologies, Partec,
StemCell Technologies, Tree Star, Union Biometrica, and Verity
Software House.

In association with the meeting are two other events on Thursday. The
FICCS computational cytometry group meets from 9am – 4:30pm on March
13. The program is entitled 'Data standards and software for flow
cytometry', and discussion will center on the data standard concerns
of software and hardware providers, though anyone interested is
welcome to participate. The FICCS meeting thematically dovetails with
the Thursday 4:30pm panel discussion on Minimum Information Standards.

Also on March 13 is a FloCyte Regional Training Program course,
"Intracellular Cytometry". Dr. Dorothy Lewis, Professor of Immunology
and Director of the Flow Cytometry Core Facility at Baylor College of
Medicine, will be teaching the course. The course covers fixation and
permeabilization, a host of applications including DNA staining,
phosphorylation, GFP, as well as quantitative methods - for more
details, go to http://www.flocyte.com/FRTP/Intracellular_flow.htm .
This course dovetails well with the themes of the 2008 NW Regional
Cytometry Meeting, in that intracellular staining techniques are
important in imaging cytometry and high content analysis. A 10%
discount is offered to 2008 NWRCM registrants. For further
information, or to register for the course, go to the FloCyte
Associates website at http://www.flocyte.com/FRTP/FRTPHome.htm .

All NWRCM talks are free and open to the public. A $25 registration
fee covers noon lunches on Friday and Saturday, as well as the Friday
evening reception buffet. The brochure at
http://www.isac-net.org/media/2008NWRCM.pdf includes a registration
page. The same page can be used for registration to the FICCS meeting.
Registration for the FloCyte course is on the FloCyte website. For
further information, please contact Allan Kachelmeier at
[hidden email]. Thanks.

Allan Kachelmeier, 2008 NWRCM coordinator

Manager, confocal microscopy core
Oregon Hearing Research Center
OHSU