20^th Annual Course in Clinical Flow Cytometry

August 10 – 15, 2008
University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI

Sponsored by:

University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Paul P. Carbone Comprehensive Cancer Center

and

Office of Continuing Professional Development in Medicine and Public Health

Intended Audience

The Clinical Flow Cytometry Course is designed to meet the needs of individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds. Participants have included attending physicians, residents, clinical fellows, research investigators, graduate students, and individuals from the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Course Objectives Participants will learn:

• The basic principles of flow cytometry including specimen preparation, fluidics, electronics, and fluorochrome selection.
• How to design and optimize flow cytometry procedures
• How to implement routine measures to standardize and ensure quality of flow cytometric procedures.
• Special flow cytometric applications for clinical use, including functional assays, bead-based assays, rare event analysis, and others.

General Information

Place: The Best Western Inn Towner
2424 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53726
Reservations: 800-258-8321
Phone: 608-233-8778
Fax: 608-233-1325

Conference Fee

Full Conference: The course fee of $1200 includes the cost of tuition, materials, continental breakfasts, lunches, refreshment breaks, Thursday night banquet, and a nonrefundable registration fee of $50. Should you cancel your registration up to 72 hours prior to the conference, you will be refunded the entire conference fee except the $50 nonrefundable portion. No refunds will be made after that time. Lectures Only: The fee to attend all lectures on Sunday and daily lectures from 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. Monday through Friday is $100. The fee includes continental breakfast, lunch and breaks on Sunday; continental breakfast on Monday through Friday, and handouts each day.

Course brochure

Click here to download the brochure with detail information

Microscopic Image Analysis with Applications in Biology

Third MICCAI Workshop - Sep 5-6, New York, NY

The automatic analysis of microscope imagery plays an increasingly important role in biosciences research. Novel imaging devices such as the confocal and two photon (or multi-photon) microscope, automated stages for optical and electron microscopy, and higher resolution electron tomography enable researchers to image biological systems at the cellular and sub-cellular scale. These datasets pose a number of challenges that are very distinct from conventional clinical imagery in their size and abundance, the detail of relevant features, and their statistics. Sophisticated algorithms are necessary to process such imagery and extract biologically relevant features and information. The design, development, and application of such algorithms are the focus of this workshop. The proposed workshop will be the third workshop in this series. The first workshop was held as a MICCAI workshop in Copenhagen in 2006. In 2007 the workshop was held as an independent one-day event in Piscataway, NJ.

Call for Congress Sites: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015

ISAC is in search of a host city for their International Congresses to take place in 2012 and 2015. We are looking for International locations, especially in Europe for these two years. Click here for more info.

Outlined in these two documents are the logistical needs and restrictions of our meeting. Please review them carefully to help you select the best possible venue to obtain a proposal from.

Please submit your proposals to cesler@faseb.org for consideration by the Society. In addition to logistical requirements and costs, ISAC will look to select a city that will offer a strong, local presence to effectively establish significant headway in programming and sponsorship for their upcoming Meetings.

Dear ISAC Member,

We modified the access to the password protected areas of the ISAC web site. To login, you'll have to provide your membership number (ID) and a password.

In the next few days the current ISAC members will receive an e-mail containing their membership number and an automatically generated password. While the password can be changed, the membership number can't. This number will uniquely identify you for the purposes of web site login, membership renewal, and voting.

The new system aims to simplify access to the ISAC website, as well as access to other ISAC internet services, including on-line membership renewal, polls, and election voting.It also allows you to use the same number for logging into the web site and for membership renewal, and it automatically transfers the changes you make to your profile in the ISAC web site to our membership database.

We have tested the new login process with all popular browsers, including IE6 and 7, Firefox, and Safari. However, we strongly encourage you to upgrade to a browser newer than IE6 if you have not already done so.

Dear ISAC Membership:

Thank you to all who participated in the voting for the ISAC 2008 Council elections. ISAC is fortunate to have so many dedicated individuals willing to donate their time to serving the Society. The candidate list was excellent and I again thank all who were nominated for their willingness to run.

Below are the results of the election. The new Officers and Councilors will officially assume their duties at the conclusion of the May 19th Business Meeting in Budapest Hungary.

• President-Elect: Paul Smith
• Secretary: Lori Krueger
• Biological Councilors: Timothy Bushnell, James Freyer & Andreas Radbruch
• Clinical Councilors: Zofia Maciorowski & Vincent Shankey
• Technical Councilor: Ger van den Engh

Congratulations to all. I know their expertise will benefit ISAC and its membership.

Detailed results can be downloaded here.

Call for nominations for the 2008 ISAC Membership Award

It is once again time to solicit nominations for the ISAC Membership Award (formerly the ISAC Honorary Fellow of the Society Award).

The ISAC Membership Award recognizes those individuals with exceptional service to the cytometry community, as well as to the Society and those who have achieved peer recognition for advancing the field of cytometry. The award includes a plaque and lifetime membership in ISAC.

The ISAC 2008 election ballot has been emailed to the ISAC membership. The deadline date for voting is Wednesday, March 26, 2008. If you did not receive an email regarding the ballot, please contact ISAC Executive Director, Laureen Rowland, at 301-634-7454 or lrowland@isac-net.org.

You may preview all the candidates here.

III EUROPEAN WORKSHOP ON THE ANALYSIS OF PHAGOCYTE FUNCTIONS

The meegting will take place in Brno (Czech Republic) immediately after ISAC 2008 (May 22-24). Brno is quite close to Budapest it is easy to travel between both cities. Please click here for details.

New components of the ACS standard

The ISAC Data Standards Task Force (DSTF) presents to the ISAC membership three proposals of components of the new ACS standard (NetCDF, ZIP, and GatingML).We encourage ISAC members to participate in the forum discussion (login required) regarding the proposals. After the general review period, the Standards Committee will review the discussions and comments to decide whether the proposed components need further work by the DSTF or they are ready for approval by ISAC Council.

Dear Colleagues from Central and Eastern Europe:

As announced on the ISAC web page last December 19^th, the ISAC Membership Service Committee established a special fund to provide assistance for ISAC members from Central and Eastern countries attending the ISAC congress in Budapest. To apply for funding, you must be from one of the designated countries approved by Council, and a member of ISAC or an affiliated society. You must also have submitted a paper for the congress as announced last December 19^th on the ISAC website.

The eligible countries are the following (alphabetically): Albania, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech, Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Turkey, and Ukraine.

You can apply for funding by sending e-mail to Laura Teodori or Zofia Maciorowski, specifying whether you are a student or a regular ISAC member, or a member of an affiliated society. The applications will be accepted till February 29^th, and the final response will be sent to the applicants by March 4^th.

Looking forward to meeting you in Budapest!

Laura Teodori and Zofia Maciorowski
Co-chairs of the ISAC Membership Service Committee