Childen's Hospital Boston                                                      

Quantitative Imaging Cytometry Center of Excellence

Quantitative Imaging Cytometry Symposium

Boston, Massachusetts

August 10 – 12, 2010

 Symposium Registration

MORNING SESSIONS

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Quantitative Imaging Cytometry as a Cutting-Edge Research Tool

Enders Auditorium, Children's Hospital Boston

 

Welcome Leslie Silberstein, MD, Director, Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

 

Imaging 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

 

Spatial Analysis of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells in Bone Marrow Leslie Silberstein, MD, Director, Joint Program in Transfusion Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

 

Combinatorial Development of Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery
Daniel Anderson, PhD, Senior Research Associate, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

 

The iCys® Imaging Cytometer in the Epigenetic Toolbox for Autism Research - Janine  LaSalle, PhD, Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, UC Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA.

 

Selected Short Oral Presentation

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Advanced Cell Cycle and DNA Damage Analysis

Jimmy Fund Auditorium, Dana-Farber Cancer Center

 

Assessment of DNA Damage by High-Resolution Cytometry Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, PhD, Director, Brander Cancer Research Institute, Valhalla, NY

 

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

 

The Untapped Potential of Laser Scanning Cytometry in Genome Damage, Proteome and Nutritional Diagnostics at the Single Cell and Sub-Type Level - Michael Fenech, PhD, Principal Research Scientist, CSIRO Food and Nutrition Sciences, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Adelaide, Australia

 

Potential Mechanisms for the Generation of Chromosome Aneuploidy in Human Cancer -
John M. Lehman, PhD, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

 

Selected Short Oral Presentation

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Pharmacodynamic and Diagnostic Tissue-Based Biomarkers

Jimmy Fund Auditorium, Dana-Farber Cancer Center

 

Application of Imaging Cytometry to the Molecular Therapeutics of Human Solid Tumors -
David Hedley, MD, Senior Scientist, Senior Scientist, Division of Applied Molecular Oncology,
Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

 

Leveraging Quantitative Imaging Cytometry to Measure the Pharmacodynamic Impact of Drugs in Development - Gloria Juan, PhD, Principal Scientist, Clinical Immunology, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA

 

Quantitative Imaging Cytometry for the Diagnostic Pathologist:  What Does the Laser Scatter Imaging Component Add? - William Geddie, MD, Cytopathologist, University Health Network/Toronto General Hospital, Toronto ON, Canada

 

Mislocation of APAFI as a Novel Diagnostic and Prognostic Marker for Refractory Diffuse B-Cell Lymphoma? - Shazib Pervaiz, National University of Singapore and Duke-NUS GMS

 

Capturing Signaling Events in the Immune System in Situ - Margaret Harnett, PhD, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

 

Selected Short Oral Presentation

AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS

Karp and CLSB Buildings, Children's Hospital Boston

Participants will have their choice of three of the workshops listed below

Workshop I

Cytome Diagnostics

Wayne Leifert, PhD and Maxime Francois, CSIRO Food and Nutrition Sciences

Adelaide, Australia

Workshop II

Automated Quantitative Analysis of Protein Expression in Tissues (Sections, FNAs, CNBs, TMAs)

David Krull, GlaxoSmithKline

Research Triangle Park, NC

Workshop III

Advanced Cell Cycle Analysis

James Jacobberger, PhD and  Tammy Stefan

Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH

Workshop IV

Immunophenotyping in FNAs (fine needle aspirates)

William Geddie, MD, UHN/Toronto General Hospital

Toronto, ON, Canada

Workshop V

Analysis of Drug-Induced DNA Damage

Shazib Pervaiz, National University of Singapore and Duke-NUS GMS and

Andrea Holme, National University of Singapore

Workshop VI

Quantitative Imaging of Bone Marrow Microenvironment

César Nombela-Arrieta, PhD and Shin-Young Park, PhD

Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA

Evenings provide a relaxed setting for socializing, including a poster session and reception on Tuesday, August 10, and a social event on Wednesday, August 11. 

Information about getting to Boston and the things to see and do there is available here.

REGISTRATION  and DEADLINES

Registration for full program ends July 10, 2010

Registration for mornings only ends August 5, 2010

Call for short oral and poster presentations:
(Must be registered for the full conference)

Submission deadlines March 10 and June 10, 2010 respectively.