Re: 2008 NW Regional Cytometry Meeting, March 13 - 15 in Portland

To all flow'ers, and other interested parties,

In behalf of the flow and imaging community of the Pacific Northwest, I am pleased to
announce the 2008 NW Regional Cytometry Meeting, ‘Flow and Imaging for an ~omics era’, to
be held in Portland on March 13 - 15 in the Old Library at OHSU. The meeting has an
outstanding roster of 18 plenary speakers, with expertise covering a range including
flow- and image-cytometry, biosensors, and high throughput screening. The meeting will
provide an opportunity to network with others from both academia and industry, with
discussion ranging from Minimum Information Standards on March 13th, to functional
assays, probes, and flow- and imaging-based high throughput methods on March 14th and
15th. 

Speakers include J. Paul Robinson, Peter Krutzik, Dorothy Lewis, Ger van den Engh, Ed
Walker, Chris D. Geddes, Alan Waggoner, Bob Murphy, Bob Zucker, James Jacobberger, Larry
Sklar, David Basiji, Mike Samuels, Iain Johnson, Rick Monsma, Doug Auld, Ghislain Bonamy,
and Michael A. Mancini. 

Sponsors include Oregon Hearing Research Center, BD Biosciences, Beckman Coulter,
Invitrogen, PerkinElmer, Amnis Corp., Cytopeia, Dako, CompuCyte, TTPLabtech, Thermo
Fisher Scientific, Accelrys, Accuri Cytometers, BioLegend, Chi-Square Works, Cell
Signaling Technology, Cytek Development, De Novo Software, FloCyte Associates, Guava
Technologies, iCyt Mission Technology, IntelliCyt, Miltenyi Biotec, Partec, StemCell
Technologies, Tree Star, Union Biometrica, and Verity Software House.

All talks are free and open to the public. A $25 registration fee covers noon lunches on
Friday and Saturday, as well as the Friday evening reception buffet. The brochure at
http://www.isac-net.org/media/2008NWRCM.pdf includes a registration page. For further
information, please contact Allan Kachelmeier at kachelme@ohsu.edu. 

Take a close look at the program, and mark your calendars. Registration is open. Thanks.

Allan Kachelmeier, 2008 NWRCM coordinator

Manager, confocal microscopy core
Oregon Hearing Research Center
OHSU