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

[Allan Kachelmeier]

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To all,

In behalf of the flow and imaging 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
Data Standards and MIS on March 13th, to functional assays, probes,
and flow- and imaging-based high throughput methods on March 14th and
15th. Instrumentation, listed on page 2 of the brochure, will also be
on demo.

The March 13 meeting is co-hosted by ISAC and FICCS, 'Data standards
and software tools for high throughput cytometry'. Included will be an
update on the ISAC data standards task force - more info is posted at
http://www.ficcs.org/meetings/ficcs4/ficcs4.html . The meeting will be
vendor-focused, but all are welcome to participate. The FICCS meeting
dovetails with the 4:30pm Thursday NWRCM panel discussion on Minimum
Information Standards. A light reception after 4:30pm offers
opportunity for socializing, poster viewing, and talking with vendors.

Also on March 13 is a FloCyte Regional Training Program course,
"Intracellular Cytometry", 9am - 4:30pm. 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 . 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 .

Plenary speakers at the meeting 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 are 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.

All 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. Note that registration closes on March 7.
The brochure at
http://www.cyto.purdue.edu/flowcyt/meetings/nrcm_2008.pdf includes a
registration page. 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