Re: Thanks to all who participated in the 2008 NW Regional Cytometry Meeting

I would like to say that I very much enjoyed the Northwestern meeting 
that Allan ran. It was scientifically excellent, and well attended. 
Overall, an excellent meeting.

Allan Kachelmeier is to be congratulated for taking on such an enormous 
task and to those companies that supported the meeting, our grateful thanks


Regards

Paul Robinson
President, ISAC


  Allan Kachelmeier wrote:
> Thanks to all who participated in the 2008 NW Regional Cytometry
> Meeting, 'Flow and Imaging for an ~omics era'. Thanks to our plenary
> speakers, J. Paul Robinson (Purdue), Peter Krutzik (Stanford), Dorothy
> Lewis (Baylor), Ger van den Engh (Cytopeia), Ed Walker (EACRI,
> Providence), Alan Waggoner (Carnegie Mellon), Mike Samuels (RainDance
> Technologies), Jake Jacobberger (Case Western), Bob Murphy (Carnegie
> Mellon), Bob Zucker (US EPA), Larry Sklar (University of New Mexico),
> David Basiji (Amnis), Chris Geddes (University of Maryland), Iain
> Johnson (Invitrogen), Mike Mancini (Baylor), Rick Monsma
> (Schering-Plough), Ghislain Bonamy (Novaris Genomics Institute), and
> Doug Auld (NIH Chemical Genomics). Thanks to speakers who participated
> in parallel sessions, including vendor talks, including Bob Murphy, Ryan
> Brinkman (BC Cancer Research Center), Shannon McWeeney (OHSU), Mark
> Collins (Cellomics), Janet Siebert (CytoAnalytics), Richard Ozanich
> (Pacific Northwest National Labs), O. M. Aliyu (Leibnz Institute for
> Plant Genetics), Karen Helm (University of Colorado), Adam Treister
> (Tree Star), Chisheng Huang (Chi-Squared Works), Christopher Bunker
> (Cell Signaling Technology), Robert Balderas (BD), Robert Barrington
> (Olympus Advalytix), Steve Jacques (OHSU BME), Dorothy Lewis, Chris
> Harrington (OHSU Microarray core), Bob Zucker, Rick Monsma, Larry David
> (OHSU Mass Spec core), Erik Sanchez (PSU), Doug Keene (Shriners
> Hospital), Tania Vu (OHSU BME), Alan Waggoner, Jake Jacobberger, Peter
> Krutzik, Chris Geddes, Iain Johnson, Larry Sklar, Arundeep Pradhan
> (OHSU), Bob Monaghan (OTRADI), Lori Krueger (BD), Mark Munson (Verity),
> Gayle Buller (Invitrogen), Jolene Bradford (Invitrogen), Matt Alexander
> (Coulter), Jack T. Ball (Accuri), Scott Baldwin (CompuCyte), Fred Molnar
> (iCyte), Rock Pulak (Union Biometrica), Larry Duckett (BD), Gil Reinin
> (BD), Jim Borree (PerkinElmer), and Mark Collins (Cellomics). Thanks to
> all who made FICCS4 a reality, including ISAC for providing support,
> noon lunch, and coffee, as well as to Ryan Brinkman and Jim Wood (chair,
> ISAC Data Standards Task Force) for organizing it, and speakers Janet
> Siebert, Kevin Banks (Labkey), Errol Strain (BD), Florian Hahne (FHCRC),
> Raphael Gottardo (UBC), Peter Krutzik, and Jim Wood. Thanks to Jack
> Dunne (BD) for introducing speakers on Friday, and to Randy Smith (PSU)
> for doing introductions on Saturday. Thanks to Dan Dorsa, OHSU VP for
> Research for comments preceding the Friday buffet. Thanks to Sue
> DeMaggio for again having organized an appropriate FloCyte course
> 'Intracellular Cytometry' in conjunction with the NWRCM. Thanks to Tony
> Bakke (OHSU Pathology), Scott Reed (PSU Chemistry), and Dan Haley (EACRI
> Providence) for judging posters - Congratulations to Makoto Yawato et
> al. (Stanford) 'High-dimension cytometry to understand complex
> mechanisms which structure diverse human NK cell repertoires of HLA
> class I-specific inhibitory receptors' and Kayte Fichter et al.
> (University of Cincinnati) 'Intracellular trafficking of polycationic
> nucleic acid vectors' on having won $50 prizes provided by Cell
> Signaling Technology for best posters.
> 
> Thanks to the 2008 NWRCM steering committee, Ryan Brinkman, Gayle
> Buller, Dan Haley, Chris Harrington, Julie Hill (ZGI), Jeff King
> (Virogenomics), Peter Rabinovitch (University of Washington), Scott
> Reed, Erik Sanchez, and Randy Smith, for creative ideas and support,
> particular thanks to Ryan Brinkman for organizing the ISAC-FICCS meeting
> and to Peter Rabinovitch for his accessible 'sage advice'. 
> 
> Thanks to Oregon Hearing Research Center, with particular credit to
> Peter Steyger (OHSU), OHSU, and the vendors who supported this meeting,
> including BD Biosciences, Dako, Invitrogen, PerkinElmer/Evotec, Amnis
> Corp., Cytopeia, Beckman Coulter, CompuCyte, TTPLabtech, Thermo Fisher
> Scientific, Accelrys, Accuri Cytometers, Applied Cytometry Systems, Bay
> Bioscience, BioLegend, Chi-Square Works, Cell Signaling Technology,
> Cytek Development, De Novo Software, FloCyte Associates, Guava
> Technologies, iCyt Mission Technology, Intellicyt, Miltenyi Biotec, MDS
> Analytical Technologies, Olympus Advalytix, Partec, Phoenix Flow
> Systems, StemCell Technologies, Tree Star, Union Biometrica, and Verity
> Software House. Thanks to the many firms who brought equipment, though,
> admittedly, the packed program was less than optimal for demos. In
> addition to support in the form of table fees and demo equipment, firms
> covered the expenses of many of the speakers: BD sponsored Rick Monsma,
> Invitrogen sponsored Alan Waggoner and Iain Johnson, PerkinElmer
> sponsored Ghislain Bonamy, Amnis sponsored David Basiji, Cytopeia
> sponsored Ger van den Engh, CompuCyte sponsored Jake Jacobberger, TTP
> Labtech sponsored Doug Auld, Accelrys sponsored Mike Mancini, FloCyte
> Associates sponsored Dorothy Lewis, IntelliCyt sponsored Larry Sklar. 
> 
> Thanks to Coulter for sharing the expense of the Friday evening buffet,
> picking up the tab on rental of the Kohler Pavilion terrace and
> providing refreshments. Thanks to Accuri Cytometers for providing Friday
> morning coffee. Thanks, as already mentioned, to Cell Signaling
> Technology for providing best poster prizes. Thanks to Tree Star for
> providing a number of free student registrations. Thanks to Gerri Lutes
> (OHSU Protocol and Events) for having managed at least one 'impossible'
> feat, and to Rachel Dresbeck, others in the office of the OHSU VP for
> Research, and Bill Walters (OHSU) for publicity. Thanks to Jill Lilly
> (OHSU OHRC) for accounting.
> 
> I could go on at Rabelesian length, with credits going on to include
> Devereux Taylor (OHSU catering), and the wonderful job he did catering
> this event, but I have to draw the line somewhere. Please don't feel
> cheated out of a credit if you're not listed - any conspicuous absences
> should be ascribed to my inability to circumscribe the particulars of
> such a large scale event. 
> 
> The meeting was a cornucopia of information, too much frankly to
> assimilate as 'efficiently' (packed) as the meeting was. I've asked
> speakers whether they'd be willing to provide PDFs to persons, including
> me, who wish to go through through the slides at a more reasonable pace.
> Although there will be no general distribution, some of the talks will
> be freely available, others not, while still others will be available
> under agreement they not be further distributed. Contact me if you are
> interested, and I can let you know what's available.
> 
> Thanks to all who made the meeting a fantastic couple of days - not
> that there weren't things, including immutable partitions, we couldn't
> have broached better. Please don't forget to send your feedback, to
> underscore what worked, tweak or jettison what didn't, as well as give
> notice of ideas, experiments, and technology that are changing cytometry
> - all foundation material for next year. (Ideas matter, and they
> probably matter more at the beginning, before a meeting is organized,
> than mid-stream.) Thanks.
> 
> Allan Kachelmeier, 2008 NWRCM coordinator
> 
> Manager, confocal microscopy core
> Oregon Hearing Research Center
> OHSU
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


-- 
J. Paul Robinson
SVM Professor of Cytomics
Professor of Immunopharmacology & Biomedical Engineering
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
President, International Society for Analytical Cytology

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