Re: 2008 NW Regional Cytometry Meeting, updated details

[Allan Kachelmeier]

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You are invited to the 2008 NW Regional Cytometry Meeting, which will be held at OHSU, March 13 - 15. Below is a simplified sketch of the program. Note the updated details on the ISAC-FICCS meeting, FloCyte course, and ImageStream Interest Group dinner. Other details are in the brochure at http://www.isac-net.org/media/2008NWRCM.pdf . (A detailed time schedule and info on Portland hotels are available on request.)

Synopsis of updated details: The schedule of the FICCS4 meeting on March 13 is posted at http://www.ficcs.org/meetings/ficcs4/ficcs4.html . The price of the March 13 FloCyte course 'Intracellular Cytometry' increases on March 3 - details at www.FloCyte.com . Registration for the Amnis-sponsored ImageStream Interest Group meeting and dinner on March 13 is at www.regonline.com/IIGPortland .

Thursday, March 13

9:00am - 4:30pm ISAC-FICCS co-hosted meeting, 'Data standards and software tools for high throughput cytometry'. Speakers include Janet Siebert (CytoAnalytics), Kevin Banks (Labkey), Errol Strain (BD), Florian Hahne (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute), Raphael Gottardo (Statistics, UBC), Peter Krutzik (Immunology, Stanford), and Jim Wood (Chair, ISAC Data Standards Task Force). Working session focus groups are in the afternoon.

9am - 4:30pm FloCyte course, 'Intracellular Cytometry', taught by Dr. Dorothy Lewis. The price of the course increases on March 3 - see www.FloCyte.com for details.

4:30pm - 5:30pm Panel discussion on Minimum Information Standards

4:30pm - 7:30pm Hors d'oeuvres, poster viewing, and vendor demos

6:30pm - 9:30pm Amnis-sponsored ImageStream Interest Group meeting and dinner at the Marriott Riverplace, including Leigh Samsel, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Registration for this meeting is at www.regonline.com/IIGPortland  - a separate Amnis-site registration is required.


Friday, March 14

8am - 6pm NWRCM talks and forums

6:30pm - 9:30pm Evening dinner buffet and refreshments at the Kohler Pavilion, co-sponsored by Beckman Coulter

Saturday, March 15

8am - 5pm NWRCM talks and forums

For details on the ISAC-Flow Informatics and Computational Cytometry Society meeting, go to  http://www.ficcs.org/meetings/ficcs4/ficcs4.html . For details and registration for the FloCyte course, go to www.FloCyte.com . For information about the whole program, a link to the brochure is at http://www.isac-net.org/media/2008NWRCM.pdf . The brochure includes a registration page. The registration deadline for lunches is March 7. For further information, contact Allan Kachelmeier at [hidden email] or 503-494-2373. Thanks.

Allan Kachelmeier, 2008 NWRCM coordinator

Manager, confocal microscopy core
Oregon Hearing Research Center
OHSU
Portland, Oregon

Program 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, Bay Bioscience, 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, Olympus Advalytix, Partec, Phoenix Flow Systems, StemCell Technologies, Tree Star, Union Biometrica, and Verity Software House.