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To the confocal community,
The 2011 Northwest Regional Cytometry Meeting, “Cytometry data: Mining,
modeling, and Management”, will be held at OHSU, March 24 – 26. The website
with links to the brochure and schedule can be accessed by googling 'ohsu
ohrc' or '2011 nwrcm'. Registration includes the March 24th reception dinner
and March 25th lunch. The website also includes online registration.
Walk-ins to talks are welcome.
The NWRCM is an umbrella which includes the FICCS computational cytometry
meeting. In consideration of the overlap between the computational cytometry
theme of the FICCS meeting and the bioinformatics focus of the 2011 NWRCM,
it’s been decided to consolidate. This consolidation may, in fact, be
something of a trial balloon. The focus of the cytometry community for the
next few years is likely to be bioinformatics, and discussions bringing
together computational methods and applications are quite relevant. Thus,
though a decision has not been taken in regard to subsequent years, in 2011
the FICCS meeting is consolidated into the NWRCM.
The 2011 NWRCM has benefited significantly from consolidation. Please check
out the augmented program – talks have been added that will appeal to the
purest of computational cytometrists, while keeping the applied focus of the
NWRCM. I believe this arrangement strikes the right balance, and brings
together two sometimes separate worlds that need to be closer and in
stronger communication. Bringing the FICCS meeting and NWRCM together is
very much in the spirit of the objectives set out for the 2011 NWRCM as
stated in its prospectus.
The FICCS sessions are split into subgroups of –omics, imaging, and flow
related bioinformatics, in this order. Attendees coming for Garry Nolan’s
NWRCM talk at 3pm on March 24 may wish to arrive early enough to catch the
flow related FICCS talks starting at 1pm, while those interested in wider
–omics or imaging perspectives would be advised to arrive the evening
before.
The roster is impressive. In addition to the roster, the NWRCM presents many
other opportunities: Two FloCyte courses (“Data analysis” and
“Standardization” – go to FloCyte courses for FloCyte course descriptions
and registration), a wide array of vendor talks, and the Saturday software
practicums. Deadline on poster abstracts has been extended to March 4 – send
abstracts to
[hidden email] if you are interested. Some the events and
courses were put together expressly for this meeting, including BD’s vendor
talk on PermKey and Adam Triester’s course “FlowJo for integrators”. With 25
vendors participating, there are few better opportunities to find out what’s
new and to test-drive equipment and software.
The program is full, and as befits a full program there’s also opportunity
for a bit of socializing and fun, Friday night on the town. Join us.
Let me know if you have any questions. Hope to see you in March.
Allan Kachelmeier
2011 NWRCM coordinator
[hidden email]
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