Great Lakes International Imaging and Flow Cytometry Association

Summary of the
GREAT LAKES INTERNATIONAL IMAGING AND FLOW CYTOMETRY ASSOCIATION
meeting

Double Flow Seven was held at the St. Regis Hotel in Detroit, October 2 -
4, 1998.  We had 20 sponsors who supported our meeting including our
PharMingen reception on Friday evening and our fantastic BDIS Flowdown on
Saturday.  We would also like to thank Beckman-Coulter, Sphereotech and
Luminex for sponsoring the coffee breaks/poster sessions and CalTag,
Cytomation, MSA and Verity for the wine and cheese party.  Our keynote
lecture was given by Keith Shults from Cytometry Associates on "A Lack of
Heterogeneity as an Indicator of Malignancy in T-cell Disorders".  The
first plenary session, chaired by our president, John Lehman, was on the
Needs for Quantitation and Rare Analysis.  Presentations were given by John
Lehman, "SV40 DNA is Synthesized in the G2 Phase of the Cell Cycle", Jake
Jacobberger, "Flow Cytometry of intracellular Antigens: Reagent Quality
control" and Jim Leary, "Flow Cytometric Detection, Sorting and Single Cell
Molecular Characterization of Rare Cells".  We also had platform talks from
three competition speakers: Kayoko Kimura, Sue Chow and Lisa Green.
Plenary session II focused on Imaging- State of the Art Ideas and was
chaired by Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz.  "Principles and Applications of
Confocal Microscopy", "Laser Scanning Cytometric Immunophenotyping" and
Cytometry of Retinoblastoma Protein/E2F Pathway" lectures were given by
Paul Robinson, Richard Clatch and Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz respectively.  Two
more competition speakers, Elzbieta Bedner and Zsolt Bacso, presented.  On
Sunday, the last plenary on Clinical Sciences- Immunoassays, The Wave of
the Future, was chaired by Carl Stewart.  "The Kinetics of Antibody
Binding", was presented by Carl Stewart, followed by "Flow Cytometry and
Virtual Liquid Phase Immunoassays" by Frank Mandy.  Our last talk was by
Larry Lowe from BDIS who spoke on Quantitation of Bead Assays.

Our award presentation, on Sunday, for the best poster ($100) went to Nikki
Hall from Litron Laboratories, Rochester, NY and the plenary award ($150)
for the best talk was given to Kayoko Kimura from the National Animal
Disease Center, Ames, Iowa.  We also gave out four travel stipends of $100
each to Sally Palmerton, Kayoko Kimura, Ruth Siebenlist and Lori Weeks.

We have been approved for 12 hours of ASCP CMLE credits for this meeting.
We will be giving out certificates to all those who requested them.

Next year we plan to return to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and our local host will
be Wendy Kopinski.  We will keep you posted with our flier in the Spring to
let you know exactly when and where in October.  We hope to have another
record turnout in Wisconsin for GLIIFCA Eight - A Crazy Eight Tacky
Flowdown.  So be as tacky as you can and we will pick a king and queen!