SEFCIG 2026 Preliminary Schedule
THURSDAY 3-12-26
8:30-8:45 Opening Remarks
8:45 -9:30 Stacie Woolard, St Jude- A 39-Color Single-Tube Spectral Flow Cytometry Assay for pediatric T-ALL Measurable Residual Disease (MRD) Diagnosis and Monitoring
9:30 -10:00 Miltenyi Biotechnologies
10:00 -10:45 Kelly Lundston- Soulcap Initiative
10:45 -11:15 Kelly Lundston- Soulcap Initiative- BeckmanCoulter vendor talk
11:15 -11:45 Break/ Get lunches
11:45 -12:45 Keynote Speaker: Sheldon Kwok- LASE Innovation- Flow in Time: Tracking Single-Cell Behavior Through Time-lapse Flow Cytometry/with box lunches
12:45 -1:15 Stratedigm
1:15 -2:00 Neel Sinha- Augusta University- Biostats for Flow Cytometry Users:
From “Just Run It” to “Planned and Powerful”
2:00 -3:30 Break with vendors
3:30 -3:45 Mojtaba Bakhtiari- Emory University- Spatial Transcriptomics: Principles and Workflow for Mapping Gene Expression in Tissue Architecture
3:45 -4:15 BD Biosciences- Aaron Tyznik- From Spectrum to Insight: Innovations Driving Higher-Dimensional Cell Analysis
4:15 -5:00 Nana Charles-Chess UGA
5:00 -8:00 Reception w/vendors
FRIDAY 3-13-26
7:30 -9:00 Breakfast with vendors
9:00 -11:00 Supernova Flow Cytometry Training- Christian Sandoval- Panel Design with CMLE credit
11:00 -12:00 Last break with vendors/ Get lunches
12:00 -12:45 Byron B Au-Yeung, Emory University- – Signaling mechanisms used by an alternative adaptive immune system
12:45 -1:15 BioLegend
1:15 -2:00 Katia Faliti- Emory University- Mapping immune dysregulation in human SLE lymph nodes at the single-cell resolution
2:00 -2:30 Thermo Fisher
2:30 -3:15 Vijay Vely- Emory University
3:15 -4:00 Chet Joyner- UGA-
4:00 -4:30 Cytek
4:30 -5:15 Smriti Parashar- Augusta University- T reg instability in Coronary artery disease
5:15 -5:30 Closing Remarks
5:30 -6:30 SEFCIG business (meeting open to all)