Hello Flowers, This morning I received a note from someone who said he had only just become aware of the flow course being given at Dartmouth in July. The Course is filling up rapidly, but at the present time we do still have a few places left -- so please pass this announcement along to anyone who might be interested and who is not on the Purdue mailing list. Thanks. The Course runs from the 15th - 20th of July (with an optional introductory workshop on the afternoon of July 14th). The website ---- giving the course brochure with application form --- can be found at http://www.hitchcock.org/pages/ceb/brochures/flow.htm This web site is a full copy of the brochure, but you can also get a paper brochure by contacting karen.griswold@dartmouth.edu and sending her your mailing address. As far as other information about the course: In order to have more time for lectures on specific advanced topics during the Course itself, we are giving an optional tutorial workshop on introductory flow theory on Saturday afternoon, July 14th. This session will include informal lectures and discussion on how a flow cytometer works, choice of fluorochromes, compensation for spectral crossover, staining procedures, and basic methods for data analysis. There will be plenty of time for questions. The Course itself starts in the morning on Sunday, July 15th, with a day of lectures, a banquet, and a keynote address by Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz on apoptosis. The rest of the Course, (Monday to Friday at noon) will have a lecture first thing in the morning followed by a 3-4 hour laboratory module. After lunch, there will be another lecture, followed by another laboratory module. The lectures will be on subjects related to the laboratory modules, but also on subjects that point to additional topics of interest. Evenings will have panel discussions (for example, on quality control issues and on the use of flow data for clinical diagnosis) and also an open "ask the experts" session. The laboratory modules for the 2001 Course are listed below. In addition to the common clinical applications, we will have several "frontier" labs with Nadège Bercovici teaching about tetramer staining, Kathy Muirhead teaching about tracking cells for cell division, Frank Mandy including multiplex bead assays in his HIV lab, and Doug Taatjes running a module on the laser scanning cytometer. 1) Carleton and Sigrid Stewart: multicolor leukemia and lymphoma phenotyping 2a) Kathy Muirhead: cell tracking 2b) Nadège Bercovici: tetramer staining 3a) Mike Keeney: CD34 stem cells in rare event analysis 3b) Doug Taatjes: laser scanning cytometry 4a) Kenneth Ault: platelets 4b) Bruce Davis: rare fetal cells in the maternal circulation 5a) Bruce Bagwell: data analysis for DNA/cell cycles 5b) Paul Wallace, Alice Givan: staining cells for DNA content 6) Jake Jacobberger: multiparameter staining and analysis for intracellular proteins, surface proteins, DNA 7) Frank Mandy and Michele Bergeron: HIV/AIDS, including CD4/CD8 quality control and multiplex bead assays for soluble analytes. We will limit the Course to about 45-50 participants. In the past they have come from many countries. They have been from universities, hospitals, and biotech companies ---- in short a wide range of different types of people. The participants rotate in groups of about 8 through all the lab modules Let me know if I can give you any further information. You can phone me directly (603-650-7661) if you have any questions about the content of the Course. Karen Griswold (605-653-1522) can answer any administrative questions (about registration, housing, travel, etc.). Alice Alice L. Givan, Ph.D. ( with Paul K. Wallace, Ph.D.), Course Co-Director and Director, Englert Cell Analysis Laboratory of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center Dartmouth Medical School Lebanon, New Hampshire NH 03756 tel 603-650-7661 fax 603-650-6130 givan@dartmouth.edu
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