Just wanted to try to set the record straight on the confusion of flow courses. I may be describing some of the courses below incorrectly ---- so please correct me on the network if I have. There is a loosely-related pair of week-long courses given each year in the US. Both emphasize hands-on laboratory work. One course has more of a research orientation --- with, for example, lab modules on topics like cell sorting and GFP and bacterial DNA fingerprinting. The other course has more of a clinical orientation -- with lab modules covering the major clinical applications as well as some clinical frontiers (like tetramer staining and cytokine synthesis). Both courses have good presentation of the general theory and practice of flow cytometry. The research-oriented course in this group has rotated between Los Alamos, New Mexico and Bowdoin, Maine. This year it will be at Los Alamos (June 9-15, 2001). Contact Jim Jett (email: jett@lanl.gov) for details. The clinically-oriented course in this group has rotated between Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois and Dartmouth Medical School in Lebanon, New Hampshire. This year it will be at Dartmouth (15-20 July, 2001). Contact Alice Givan (email: givan@dartmouth.edu) for details. Contact karen.griswold@dartmouth.edu for an application and brochure. In addition to these two rotating courses, there is also a separate course that is sponsored by the Clinical Cytometry Society. It is being presented this summer in Montpellier, France from May 6-8, 2001. This course was announced by Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson (stetler@box-s.nih.gov) in an e-mail to this network last week. Contact clee@chaffee.net for more information. In terms of the two clinically-oriented courses, my impression is that the course run by Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson has more of an emphasis on clinical diagnosis from sample patient data whereas the Dartmouth/Chicago course emphasizes hands-on lab work to illustrate general flow principles as they are applied to clinical assays. Someone should correct me if I am wrong about this. In addition to these US courses, there are others around the world. The Purdue website tries to list most of them. It is not very up-to-date at the moment (hint). http://www.cyto.purdue.edu/flowcyt/educate/courses.htm Alice Alice L. Givan 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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