Theory-To-Practice Flow Cytometry Workshop 2023

03/08/2023

Meet our esteemed faculties!

Tomáš Kalina

Tomáš Kalina is currently an Associated Professor at Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Charles University in Prague, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Czech Republic. He is a president of Czech Society for Analytical Cytometry, council member of International Society for Advancement of Cytometry, and a member of HCDM council. Throughout his career, he focused on development and translational application of flow cytometry-based techniques (immunodeficiency, immune monitoring, leukemia phenotyping, minimal residual disease monitoring, bead-based proteomics, and algorithmic data analysis). He develops new techniques and applications for polychromatic, spectral, and mass cytometry.

26/06/2023

Dear participants, over 50% of the spots have already been reserved. Register now to ensure your participation.

Follow the link to learn more and register https://www.topfcw23.org/

21/06/2023

Meet our esteemed faculties!

Zosia Maciorowski received her B.Sc. in Microbiology from McGill University in Montreal and M.A. in Biology from Wayne State University in Detroit. She has worked in many labs and countries over the years on a variety of different subjects, from the early days of tissue culture to small animal surgery, monoclonal antibody production and early immunological and molecular biology techniques. In the 80’s she specialized in solid tumor preparation for multicolor and cell cycle analysis. For 29 years she was responsible for the Flow Cytometry Core Facility at the Curie Institute in Paris, France, from which she is now retired. Zosia is Co-Chair of the Live Education Delivery Sub-Committee of the Education Committee for the International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) which has organized international flow cytometry workshops around the world.

20/06/2023

Second cytometer on the list.
The BD™ LSR II flow cytometer is the most flexible yet powerful benchtop analyzer available.
No more words are needed...

15/06/2023

The International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) established an ambitious agenda to building the strongest, multidisciplinary, international community by promoting technological innovation, developing professionals and facilitating the knowledge exchange of in the field of cytometry.

Be a part of the expanding community by joining us at the first ISAC workshop in Yerevan!

12/06/2023

Meet our esteemed faculties!

Dr. Maria Jaimes earned her MD degree at the Universidad Javeriana in Colombia (South America).

Dr Jaimes completed her postdoctoral training at Stanford University in the department of Microbiology and Immunology. During her postdoc, she worked at characterizing the immune responses to both rotavirus and influenza viruses after natural infection and immunization. In 2005, Dr Jaimes joined BD Biosciences. While at BD, Maria worked in different aspects of quality assurance and standardization of flow cytometry assays. As part of the R&D reagent team she participated in the development and testing of new dyes and was also involved in the development and characterization of new instruments and sofware.

Since 2015, Maria has been working at Cytek Biosciences and is part of the R&D team who developed the Aurora Full Spectrum Cytometer. Dr Jaimes has overseen the instrument characterization, verification and development of multicolor applications. Besides her responsibilities within the R&D team, Dr Jaimes leads the Technical Applications Support team worldwide.

12/06/2023

Flow cytometric immunophenotyping remains an irreplaceable technique for the identification, classification, staging, and monitoring of hematologic malignancies.

Due to its capacity to effectively identify abnormal cell populations, characterize their phenotypes, and determine lineage classification, flow cytometry is extensively employed in the diagnosis of acute leukemias, leukemias of blasts, mature B-cell leukemias, mature T/NK cell leukemias and mature or maturing myeloid leukemias.

Are you a practicing physician or a medical student? Make sure not to miss out on the theoretical and practical sessions on clinical hematology led by top specialists in the field.

08/06/2023

Did you know?

The challenge in studying extracellular vesicles (EVs) using flow cytometry arises from their significantly smaller size compared to the cells traditionally analyzed by modern flow cytometers. Analyzing EVs with conventional flow cytometers can lead to various artifacts if the researcher fails to take proper precautions to prevent swarm effects. Swarm effects can occur due to coincident events at the laser intercept with the sample or due to excess event anomalies in the instrument's signal processing.

Join TopFCW23 to gain insights into novel flow cytometry-based method for accurate and reliable analysis of EVs.

07/06/2023

Dear participants, we would like to inform you that the class size is limited to 30 participants. Any registrations received after the initial 30 will be added to a waitlist. We highly encourage you to register quickly to secure your spot and ensure your participation.

Don't delay, register now!

Theory-To-Practice Flow Cytometry Workshop

07/06/2023

Let's begin with the first cytometer on the list.

The BD FACSCalibur system is compact and easy to use. It is complemented by a broad suite of intuitive software solutions to streamline analysis for a wide range of applications, including enumeration of lymphocyte subsets, stem cells, residual white blood cells, reticulocytes, DNA analysis, immune function studies, bead based immunoassays, and multiplexed analysis of signal transduction and phosphorylation targets.
Enabling fast, easy, and accurate results for routine applications with a versatile, modular design has made the BD FACSCalibur the automated benchtop cytometer of choice for cell analysis in research and clinical laboratories worldwide.

07/06/2023

Meet our esteemed faculties!

Bill Telford,
Councilor, International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) Leadership, USA.

Bill Telford met his first flow cytometer in the mid-1980s and has been involved with cytometry technology ever since. He received his Ph.D. in microbiology from Michigan State University in 1994, where his laboratory developed some of the earliest techniques for flow cytometric detection of apoptosis. He received his postdoctoral training in immunology at The University of Michigan Medical School, was appointed assistant scientist at the Hospital for Special Surgery / Cornell Weill School of Medicine in New York City from 1997 to 1999. Dr. Telford became a Staff Scientist at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health in 1999, and is currently and Senior Associate Scientist and director of the flow cytometry core laboratory in the NCI Experimental Transplantation and Immunology Branch. Dr. Telford’s current research interests mainly involve instrumentation development, with concurrent fluorochrome and assay innovation to fit the latest instrument technology. He has been involved in the Indo-US Workshops and the Livre Education Task force for over 15 years, and now works with the Instruments for Science Task Force to provide flow cytometry technology to underserved parts of the world.

07/06/2023

Dear participants, during the hands-on sessions of the workshop, you will have the opportunity to practice and explore all three cytometers available in laboratory. We will soon provide you with detailed information about each of them.