Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO)

and

CompuCyte Corporation

Quantitative Imaging Cytometry (QIC):

 Technology and Applications

Day 1: Thursday, January 28, 2010

CSIRO Human Nutrition, Adelaide, Australia

8.00 – 8.50

Registration

            MORNING SESSION:  QIC AND ITS APPLICATION TO

DNA DAMAGE AND CYTOME APPLICATIONS (Chair, Elena Holden)

8.50 – 9.00

Welcome – Alan Bell (Chief, CSIRO Food and Nutritional Sciences)

9.00-9.30

“An introduction to the history and science of laser scanning cytometry” – Elena Holden, MD, President and CEO, CompuCyte Corporation

9.30 -10.30

 “Automated Chromosomal Instability and Cytome Diagnostics using QIC” – Michael Fenech, PhD, (Research Program Leader), CSIRO Human Nutrition, Adelaide, Australia

10.30-10.40

Leg stretch and coffee break

10.40 – 11.40

“Assessment of DNA Damage Response by Cytometry” – Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, PhD, Brander Cancer Research Institute, New York Medical College, Valhalla, NY USA

11.40 – 12.30

Questions and Discussion

12.30 – 13.30

LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION: Hands-On Workshop: iCyte^® Imaging Cytometer

Cell Cycle, DNA Damage and Apoptosis Applications

13.30 – 16.30

CompuCyte and CSIRO scientists will offer hands-on clinic and protocol development consultations.

Workshop A (in the iCyte instrument lab; maximum 10 attendees) – Cell Cycle, DNA Damage and Apoptosis Applications.  Instructors: Ed Luther, Dr. Z. Darzynkiewicz

Workshop B (in a conference room using computer workstation, remote iCyte SW; maximum 20 attendees) - Immunophenotyping applications.  Instructor: Dr. W. Geddie.

Day 2:  Friday, January 29, 2010

CSIRO Human Nutrition, Adelaide, Australia

            MORNING SESSION:  CLINICAL AND NEAR-CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF QUANTITATIVE IMAGING CYTOMETRY (Chair, Michael Fenech)

9.00 - 9.30

“The current state of the art of QIC” – Pascal Vallotton PhD, CSIRO Mathematics and
Information Sciences, Sydney, Australia

9.30 – 10.30

“Distribution of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Niches in the Bone Marrow” – Leslie Silberstein, MD, Director, JPTM and CHCT, Children’s Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA  USA

10.30-10.40

Leg stretch and coffee break

10.40 – 11.40

“Quantitative Imaging Cytometry in Clinical Cytology” - William Geddie, MD, Department of Pathology, Toronto General Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

11.40 – 12.30

Questions and Discussion

12.30 – 13.30

LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION: Hands-On Workshop: iCyte^® Imaging Cytometer

Automated Tissue Analysis and Immunophenotyping

13.30 – 16.30

CompuCyte scientists will offer hands-on clinic and protocol development consultations.

Workshop A (in the iCyte instrument lab; maximum 10 attendees) -

Automated Tissue Analysis.  Instructor:  Ed Luther

Workshop B (in a conference room using computer workstation, remote

iCyte SW; maximum 20 attendees) - Automated Cytome Diagnostics.

Instructors: Dr. Fenech and group

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