GLIIFCA

Great Lakes International Imaging and Flow Cytometry Association

Program for the 1995 GLIIFCA Meeting, Detroit, MI, Sept 30-Oct 1, 1995

Fourth Annual Meeting

Becton Dickinson Immunocytometry Systems
Bio Rad, Inc.
CalTag, Inc.
CompuCyte Corp.
Coulter Corporation
Coulter Electronics of Canada, Ltd.
Cytomation, Inc.
DAKO Corporation
Flow Cytometry Standards Corporation
Harlan Bioproducts for Science
Immunotech, Inc. 
Medical Science Associates
Miltenyi Biotec Inc.
Ortho Diagnostics Systems, Inc.
PharMingen
Phoenix Flow Systems, Inc.
R&D Systems, Inc.
Sigma  Immunochemicals
Spherotech, Inc.
Verity Software House, Inc.
and 
ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE
BUFFALO, NEW YORK

Steering Committee

David Hedley - Ontario, Canada
Charles Goolsby - Illinois
Maurice R. G. O-Gorman - Illinois
J. Paul Robinson - Indiana
Alexander Nakeff- Michigan
Waclaw Jaszcz - Minnesota
Linda Setterlund - Minnesota
John M. Lehman - New York
Carleton C. Stewart - New York
Charles L. Hitchcock - Ohio
James W. Jacobberger - Ohio
Betsy Ohlsson-Wilhelm - Pennsylvania
Lynn Peterson - Wisconsin
J. Paul Robinson & Julie Auger, Program and Steering Committee Chairs 1995
Alexander Nakeff, Local Host

Friday Evening September 29

8:00 - 11:00 PM Reception, Open Bar 8 - 10 PM (Exhibit/ Poster Area)
                Sponsored by PharMingen

Saturday Sept. 30

7:30 - 9:00 AM  Continental Breakfast in Exhibit/ Poster Area 
                                
8:45 AM         Welcoming Remarks

Plenary Session I -Cell Function by Flow Cytometry (Woodward Room) 
       		Julie Auger, Paul Harris.... Chairs

9:00 -  9:50    David Hedley, Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, Ontario,
		Chalk Board Review- "Mapping the Death Pathway with Live Cell Probes"

9:50 -  10:10   John Semple, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario -
		"Analysis of Platelet Populations in Autoimmune Thrombocytopenia (AITP):
		Elevated HLA-Dr Coexpressed with Macrophage and Red Blood Cell Molecules."

10:10 -  10:30  William Telford, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann
		Arbor, Michigan- "Measurement of Plasma Membrane Ca++ ATPase Activity in
		Inside-Out Membrane Vesicles by Flow Cytometry".

10:30 - 11:00   Coffee Break-- Exhibit/Poster Area - Sponsored by Caltag

11:00 - 11:20   Maurice O'Gorman, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago,
		Illinois - "T-Cell Activation and Proliferation by Flow Cytometry."

11:20 - 11:40   Anne Sperling, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ilinois -
		"T-Cell Costimulation - A Life or Death Situation."

11:40 -  12:00  Steven Rehbein, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New
		York - "Evaluation of Cytokine Receptor Expression on Normal Human
		Hematopoietic Progenitor Cells Using 4-color Multiparameter Flow
		Cytometry."

12:00 -  1:00   Box Lunch in Commons Room (Steering Committee Mtg.)

  1:00 -  2:00  Poster Viewing (Exhibit/ Poster Area)

Plenary Session II - Image Cytometry (Woodward Room)

  2:00 - 2:50   J.Paul Robinson, "Introduction to Confocal Microscopy"

  3:00 - 3:20   Stan Shackney, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA,
		"Clinical Applications of Tumor Biology: Imaging and Flow Methods Compared"

  3:20 - 3:40   Vince Shankey, Loyola Univ. Med. Ctr. Maywood, IL,
		"Technical and Biological Implications of Image Analysis of Clinical
		Specimens"

  3:40 - 5:00   Posters/ Exhibits Wine and Cheese Happy Hour-   Sponsored
		by Compucyte Corporation

Presidential Symposium: (Woodward Room)

 
       Presidential award selected from abstracts

5:00 - 5:15     (Tech Award) Avis Peters, United Hospital, St. Paul,
		Minnesota. "Optimization of Viability, Lineage, and Light Scatter
		Parameters for Multiparameter Flow Analysis of Bone Marrow Samples."

Selected Presentations Not Competing for Awards:

5:20 - 5:40     Michael Sramkoski, Case Western Res. Univ., Cleveland, OH,
		" Simultaneous Determination of Cyclin B1, P105 and Cell Cycle in DU145
Cells"

5:40 - 6:00     Karen Cornell, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, "Flow
		Cytometric and Image Analysis of Aminopeptidase Activity Within Neoplastic
		Cells."

6:00 - 6:10     Lori Anderson, Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario, "Quality
		Assurance for Stem Cell Enumeration in Canada"

Business Meeting 
6:10 - 6:30     Presentations: Technician Award and Travel Awards
        Sponsored by: BioRad, Caltag, Compucyte, Coulter, DAKO, FCSC,
	PharMingen, Spherotech, and Verity Software House

6:30 - 8:00     Free Time (Bar available in Commons Room)

8:00 - 12:00    FLOW-O-WEEN - FLOWDOWN  (Woodward Room)
       SPONSORED BY: BECTON DICKINSON IMMUNOCYTOMETRY SYSTEMS

Sunday Oct 1 

7:30 - 8:30 AM  Continental Breakfast in Exhibit/ Poster Area

	Plenary Session III -Developments In Instrumentation and
	Applications(Woodward Room) Gary Durack and James Jacobberger... Chairs

8:30 - 8:55     Steve Kelley, Purdue University, West Layfayette, IN. "See
		the World Famous MYSTERY SPOT!" - An abbreviated guide to Cytometric
		Tourist Traps on the Information Superhypeway. 

9:00 - 9:20     Douglas Berger, Compucyte Corp., Cambridge, MA, "Laser
		Scanning Cytometry: Cellular Analysis by Fluorescence with Automated
		Visualization of Restained Cells" 

9:25 - 9:55     Gary Durack, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL,
		"Fluorescence Lifetime Measurement via Cross Correlation Methods for Image
		and Flow Systems" 

10:00 - 10:25   James Jett, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM,
		"Molecular Analysis by Flow Cytometry" 

10:30 - 10:45   Coffee Break-- Exhibit/Poster Area- Sponsored by Coulter

10:45 - 11:10   Abe Schwartz, Flow Cytometry Standards Corp., San Juan, PR,
		"How to Construct a Standardized Calibration Curve" 

11:15 - 11:40   Phyllis S. Frisa, Case Western University, Case Western
		Res. Univ., Cleveland, OH, "On the Transformation of Fluorescence Cytometry
		into Molecular Quantities" 

11:45 - 12:10   Andrew Yen, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, "Testing
		Transregulatory Activity of the RB Tumor Supression Gene During the Cell
		Cycle with Multiparameter Flow Cytometry: RB, MYC, FOS, and DNA" 

12:15 - Closing comments and adjournment of meeting -Carleton Stewart

N.B. A brunch (pay your own) will be available in the restaurant after 12 PM.










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