February 10, 11 & 12, 2009

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Day 1: Tuesday, February 10^th – Emergence of Quantitative Imaging

9:00 – 12:00 Morning Symposium: Grace Auditorium

· Keynote presentation: The Science and Technology of Cytometry – J. Paul Robinson, SVM Professor of Cytomics, Professor of Immunopharmacology & Biomedical Engineering Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories, W. Lafayette, IN and President, International Society for Advancement of Cytometry

· Laser Scanning 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

· Applications of Laser Scanning Cytometry for Cell and Tissue analysis in Cancer Research - Heather Zecchini, Deputy Head of the Imaging and Microscopy Laboratory at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Research Institute, UK

· Investigation of a Role of a Protein Phosphates in Neurodegeneration – Li Li, PhD, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY

Day 2: Wednesday, February 11^th – Cell-Based Applications

9:00 – 12:00 Morning Symposium: Grace Auditorium

· Frontier Lecture: Capturing Signaling Events in the Immune System in Situ - Margaret Harnett, Professor of Immune Signaling, Division of Immunology, Infection and Inflammation Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

· Assessment of DNA Damage Response by Cytometry – Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, PhD, Director, Brander Cancer Research Institute, Valhalla, NY.

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

· Cell-Based Assays to Address Toxicology Issues in Pre-Clinical Drug Development Using Laser Scanning Cytometry – Padma Narayanan, Ph.D., Director, Investigative Toxicology, Amgen, Inc., Seattle, WA.

· How Laser Scanning Cytometry Opened a Door to Study Cellular Inflammation and Apoptosis in Chronic Lung Disease - Andrew J Halayko, PhD, Manitoba Institute of Child Health, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Day 3: Thursday, February 12^th – Tissue-based Applications

9:00 – 12:00 Morning Symposium: Grace Auditorium

· Keynote presentation: Spatial Analysis of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells in Bone Marrow – Leslie Silberstein, MD, Director, JPTM, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

· Laser Scanning Cytometry in Autism Research – Janine LaSalle, PhD, University of California at Davis, Davis, CA

· Application of Laser Scanning Cytometry in Biomarker Drug Development: Challenges and Opportunities - Gloria Juan, PhD, Clinical Immunology, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA.

· Mapping of Tissue Architecture for Cells with Shorter Telomere Lengths – Alexei Protopopov, PhD, Center for Applied Cancer Science, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

· Laser Scanning Cytometry Analysis of Rare Circulating Tumor Cells in Pre-Clinical Models of Cancer – Alison L. Allan, Ph.D., London Regional Cancer Program, London Health Sciences Centre, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario

Practical Afternoon Hands-on Sessions

· Designing Solid-Phase Quantitative Imaging Cytometry Experiments – William Telford, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

· Multi-color solid-phase (adherent specimen) cell cycle analysis – James Jacobberger and Tammy Stefan, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland OH

· Immunophenotyping of small needle aspirates - William Geddie, Princess Margaret Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada

· Multi-color Quantitative Analysis of Protein / Biomarker Expression in Tissue, Tissue Microarrays and Fine Needle Aspirates - Jed Mahoney, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA.

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