RE: March 17 - 18 Northwest Regional Cytometry Meeting

To all Northwest flow'ers, and other interested parties,

Cascade Cytometry User's Group, in association with Northwest Cytometry User's Group, is
hosting the 2006 Northwest Regional Cytometry Meeting, to be held in the Old Library on
the OHSU Marquam Hill campus, on March 17 and 18. The plenary talks are listed below:

Ed Luther, "Enumeration and quantification:  comparing flow and imaging cytometry"
Bob Hoffman, "Standardization over time and across platforms"
Peter Rabinovitch, "DNA content and cell cycle analysis: so simple yet so hard" 	  Ed Walker, "Memory T cells: taking the right measure of them"
Ger van den Engh, "Quantitation: the polarization wildcard"
Fred Battrell, "Cytometry at point of use: the state of the art in microfluidics" 
David Galbraith, "GFP, microarrays, and other extenders of  the cytometry platform"
Howard Shapiro, "'Personal' cytometry * it ain't necessarily flow"
Brent Wood, "Validation of multicolor work"
Tony Bakke, "Intracellular staining * problems and solutions"
James Huang, "Residual disease detection for lymphoma, leukemia, and myeloma"

In addition to the plenaries, there will be roundtables, vendor talks, and posters. The
deadline on posters is January 15. A more detailed flier on the program is available at
the link http://www.cyto.purdue.edu/flowcyt/meetings/NWRC.PDF.	

Also, there is opportunity for conference registrants to obtain a 10% discount on an
advanced flow course, "Multiparameter flow and compensation", offered by FloCyte Assoc.
on March 16 in conjunction with the meeting.

Registration for the conference is free thanks to the generous support of sponsors, and
also necessary if you wish to have lunch or obtain a discount on the course. You can
register, or obtain more information, by contacting Allan Kachelmeier at
kachelme@ohsu.edu. Thanks.

Best for the holidays,

Allan Kachelmeier

Flow Cytometry Core Facility
Oregon Stem Cell Center
OHSU
503-494-2361