Program

    SEFCIG 2024  Memphis 

    THURSDAY 3-14-24

    9:00- 9:15       Opening Remarks

    9:15- 9:45       Vendor-ThinkCyte- Paul Fallon- Introduction to ghost cytometry and the VisionSort

    9:45- 10:30     Keito Hoshitsuki- St Jude Children’s Research Hospital- Comprehensive mouse liver phenotyping using spectral flow cytometry

    10:30-1100    Vendor- Cytek- Chris Fleming- Data reproducibility and simple assay transfer between Cytek Aurora and Aurora CS systems

    11:00-1130    Vendor- Thermo Fisher- Michael Fuller- CytPix and AI: Automated morphological analysis for high-throughput cytometry

    11:30-12:15   Bill Eades- Washington University- Flow cytometry service: A timeline from self-reliance to total dependance

    12:15-12:45   Break/Get lunches

    12:45-1:30      Caroline Roe- Vanderbilt University- Perspectives on transitioning between mass and flow cytometry

    1:30-2:00        Vendor- Metafora- Jack Panopoulos- ChatGPT meet Metaflow: A new AI for reproducible and robust rare cell detection

    2:00-2:30        Vendor- Stratedigm- Shervin Javadi- Beyond boundaries: AI’s breakthrough in cytometry

    2:30-3:30        Break with vendors

    3:30-4:15        Sarah Vick- Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center- High-parameter immune profiling of the female reproductive tract in the context of viral exposure 

    4:15-4:45        Vendor- Slingshot Bio- Amay Dankar- Optimizing controls for flow cytometry – What are your options?

    4:45-5:15        Vendor- BD Biosciences- Jonathan Semidey-Hurtado- Elevating image-based sorting applications with spectral immunophenotyping

    5:15-6:00        Katherine Verbist & Suresh Poudel- St.Jude Children’s Research Hospital – Using spectral flow cytometry to phenotype and analyze CD8 T Cells in infection and cancer models using a novel bioinformatic platform

    6:00-8:00        Reception w/ Vendors

    FRIDAY 3-15-24

    8:00- 9:30       Breakfast with vendors

    9:30-10:15      Kelly Lundsten- FluoroFinder- Fluorophores for spectral cytometry

    10:15-10:45   Vendor- Agilent- Patrick Verdugo- Agilent flow cytometry: 10 years of Novocyte

    10:45-11:15   Vendor- Beckman Coulter- Matthew Goff- A new approach to nanoscale flow cytometry with the CytoFLEX nano flow cytometer

    11:15-12:00   Lawrence Lamb- IN8Bio- Post-immunotherapy patient monitoring as translational science: building the case through USC, UCL, UAB and IN8Bio

    12:00-1:00      Last break with Vendors/Get lunches

    1:00-1:45        Matthew Woodruff- Emory University- Contextualizing Humoral Immunity in Man and Mouse: Lessons Learned from COVID-19

    1:45-2:15        Vendor- Nodexus- Tim Brown- NX One: Gentle microfluidic single cell sorting for everyone

    2:15- 2:45       Vendor- BioLegend- Steve McClellan- LegendScreen assay for cancer biomarker discovery   

    2:45- 3:45       Paul Robinson- Purdue University- Cytometry 3.0:  Are you ready for a new generation of Instruments?

    3:45- 4:00       Meeting close