1997 Sixth Annual Meeting Milwaukee, WI, October 3-5, 1997 BEST WESTERN/MIDWAY -AIRPORT HOTEL Hotel reservation form
Site Organizer: Lynn Peterson
Program Chairs: Mo O'Gorman, Ph.D., Chuck Goolsby, Ph.D.
The sixth annual meeting of GLIIFCA will be held in Milwaukee this year. The sessions will cover both clinical and research applications and as in the past the meeting is oriented towards all levels of flow cytometrists/imagists from the bench techs to senior investigators and laboratory directors. In addition to the main plenary lectures, speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts to give ten minute platform presentations during each of the three plenary sessions. Our meeting "to make Milwaukee famous" will have a sixties theme and feature a "roll with the flow" Flowdown on Saturday night.
FRIDAY Evening - October 3, 8PM - 9PM
Guest Lecture: Microbiology Applications of Flow Cytometry
Steven M. Callister, Gundersen/Lutheran Medical Center
Reception - 9PM - 11PM
SATURDAY- October 4 - Plenary Session I
CLINICAL SCIENCES -Applications and Functional Analyses in Immunology and Microbiology
Chair: Maurice R. O'Gorman
8:00 - 8:45 AM "Evaluation of the T-cell Repertoire Using Antibodies Directed at the TCR Vbeta Families"
J. Phillip McCoy, Jr.
8:50 - 9:35 AM "Flow Cytometric Evaluation of Lymphocyte Activation and Proliferation"
Thomas M. Ellis
9:40 - 10:25 AM "Flow Cytometric Evaluation of NK Cell Function"
Alice Gilman-Sachs
10:30 - 11:15 Coffee and Attended Poster Session A
11:15 - 12:00 Platform presentations
(10 min + 5 min discussion) selected from submitted abstracts
Plenary Session II
BASIC SCIENCE I -Cell Proliferation, Cell Death and Tumor Progression
Chair: Charles Goolsby
1:00 - 1:45 PM "DNA Ploidy and Cell Cycle Analyses The Future"
Charles Hitchcock
1:50 - 2:35 PM "Apoptosis" Frank Mortari
2:40 - 3:25 PM "Cell Cycle Regulation" James Jacobberger
3:30 - 4:15 PM Coffee and Attended Poster Session B
4:15 - 5:15 PM Platform presentations
Wine and Cheese Happy Hour(s) 6PM - 8PM
"ROLL WITH THE FLOW" FLOWDOWN 8PM - 12 AM
SUNDAY - October 5
Plenary Session III 8:30AM - 12PM
BASIC SCIENCE II - Future Directions in Clinical Cytometry and Image Analysis
Chairs: O'Gorman and Goolsby
8:30 - 9:30 AM Platform presentations
9:30 - 10:00 AM Coffee and Attended Poster Session C
10:00 - 10:45 AM "Flow Cytometric Analysis of Minimum Residual Disease"
Carl Stewart
10:50 - 11:35 AM "Functional Analyses of Early Events in Apoptosis"
David Hedley
11:40 - 12:00 Wrap up and Award Presentations
CORPORATE MEMBERS AND MEETING SPONSORS:
Becton Dickinson Immunocytometry Systems
BioErgonomics, Inc.
Bio Rad, Inc.
CalTag, Inc.
Cedarlane Labs.
CompuCyte Corp.
Coulter Corporation
Cytomation, Inc.
DAKO Corporation
Flow Cytometry Standards Corporation
Kirkgaard and Perry, Inc.
Medical Science Associates
Miltenyi Biotec Inc.
Ortho Diagnostics Systems, Inc.
PharMingen
Phoenix Flow Systems, Inc.
R&D Systems, Inc.
Serotec Ltd.
Sigma Immunochemicals
Spherotech, Inc.
Verity Software House, Inc.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
Barbara A. Karmanos Cancer Center, Detroit, Michigan
Northwestern University Cancer Center, Chicago, Illinois
STEERING COMMITTEE:
Lori Anderson - London, Ontario
Julie Auger - Illinois
Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz - New York
Bruce Davis - Michigan
Charles Goolsby - Illinois
Maurice R. G. O-Gorman - Illinois
David Hedley - Toronto, Ontario
Charles L. Hitchcock - Ohio
James W. Jacobberger - Ohio
Waclaw Jaszcz - Minnesota
John M. Lehman - New York
Frank Mandy - Ottawa, Ontario
Jonni Moore - Pennsylvania
Alexander Nakeff- Michigan
Lynn Peterson - Wisconsin
J. Paul Robinson - Indiana
Stanley Shackney - Pennsylvania
T. Vincent Shankey - Illinois
Carleton C. Stewart - New York
For local meeting information and poster information (5 ft. wide x 6ft. high), please call, fax, email or write:
LYNN M. PETERSON
MEDICAL SCIENCE LAB
FLOW CYTOMETRY
11020 WEST PLANK SUITE 100
WAUWATOSA, WI 53226
PHONE 414-476-3400 EXT 4126
FAX 414-256-5566
email: LynnPet463@aol.com
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