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 Call for Papers and Announcement

Advanced Techniques in Analytical Cytology, Part of BiOS '96--An
International Symposium on Biomedical Optics including Diagnostics and
Therapeutics

Dates: 27 January-2 February 1996
Place: San Jose Convention Ctr., San Jose, California USA

Conference Chair: Robert C. Leif,Ph.D., Newport Instruments

CoChairs: 
Daniel L. Farkas,Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon Univ.;
James F. Leary, Ph.D., Univ. of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston;
Howard M. Shapiro, M.D., Howard Shapiro, M.D., P. C.

The focus of this conference will be on advanced technology for flow
cytometry, image analysis, and cell separation including cell sorting.

The suggested topics include, but are not limited to, the following areas:

- new analytical parameters and probes
- new methods for cell separation
- high-speed sorting and analysis of cells and other biological objects
- multiparameter cell analysis
- new digital image analysis technology 
- advances in confocal microscopy
- new components for analytical cytology instrumentation

This conference is just one of more than 80 conferences to be held at the
Photonics West '96 symposium.  For those researchers and engineers who
design and develop instrumentation, this symposium has the added advantage
of an extensive and relevant exhibit of components and technologies.  

TO OBTAIN ALL CALLS FOR PAPERS ELECTRONICALLY
The calls for papers for all conferences in the Photonics West
symposium will be available 1 May 1995 on SPIE Web
(http://www.spie.org/web/meetings/calls/pw96_home.html), 

by anonymous FTP
(ftp://spie.org/meetings/calls/pw96*),
 
or by e-mail file retrieval
send a message to info-optolink-request@spie.org with the following in the
message body:  
send [meetings.calls]pw96*

For a printed call for papers or other information:
E-mail: pw96@spie.org
Fax: 360/647-1445 (*)
Phone: 360/676-3290 (*)

PHOTONICS WEST DEADLINES
Paper Abstracts Due from Authors: 
     17 June 1995 (on-site proceedings)
     3 July 1995 (post-meeting proceedings)
Advance Programs due from Chairs: 
     17 July 1995 (on-site proceedings)
     31 July 1995 (post-meeting proceedings)
Manuscripts Due from Authors: 
     3 November 1995 (on-site proceedings)
     2 January 1996 (post-meeting proceedings)

GUIDELINES FOR SUBMITTING AN ABSTRACT

Send a 250 word abstract of your paper, by the appropriate deadline, in ONE of
the following ways:

electronic mail in ASCII format to Internet abstracts@spie.org

fax to SPIE at 360/647-1445 (*)

mail (please mail 4 hard copies) to:
     Photonics West '96
     SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA  98227-0010
     Shipping Address: 1000 20th Street, Bellingham, WA  98225
     Telephone: 360/676-3290 (*)

Be sure each abstract includes the following:

1. CONFERENCE CHAIR and CONFERENCE TITLE
     to which the abstract is submitted

2. AUTHOR LISTING (List principal author first)
     for each author: full name and affiliation, mailing address, phone/fax
     numbers, email

3. ABSTRACT/PAPER TITLE

4. ABSTRACT TEXT: 250 words typed on white paper

5. KEYWORDS: maximum of 5 keywords

6. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY of the principal author: 50-100 words

Please contact SPIE if you have any questions or require further information.

(*) Please note: 
SPIE's area code changed from 206 to 360 in February 1995. If you experience
any difficulty using the 360 area code, please use 206 and notify SPIE, your
local phone company, and the people in charge of the phone system from where
you placed your call. You may also call 1-800-441-5516 to report the
difficulty. Thank you for your patience while US West and other regional phone
companies fix this problem. 

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For information contact J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D., Director PUCL, 1515 Hansen B050, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1515, U.S.A. Phone: (317) 494-0757; Fax: (317) 494-0517

Email me now at robinson@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu