Northwest Regional Cytometry Meeting

The 2008 NW Regional Cytometry Meeting, entitled ‘Flow and Imaging for an ~omics era’, will be held at OHSU, March 13 - 15. The meeting is 'ecumenical' in the sense of organized for both a flow and imaging group, and topics to be discussed have been chosen with this in mind. Topics on Friday, March 14, will generally be more flow related, while those on the 15th will be more imaging and ~omics related, with emphasis on high content analysis. The meeting as a whole has been informed by an opportunity in Oregon for a legislatively funded drug discovery pre-screening facility.

Oregon Translational Research and Drug Discovery Institute (OTRADI) will set up operations later in the year, and this meeting is designed in part to engender more interest in high content analysis. General discussion of probes, integration of different ~omic platforms, and automated acquisition, will open what opportunities these technologies present for gaining a more dynamic, systems understanding of the cell. This research may have significant benefits for individualized medicine and drug discovery. The meeting will be of wide interest given the thrust of automation and importance of systems cell biology.

The meeting is also an umbrella for two other events. The Flow Informatics and Computational Cytometry Society (FICCS) and a FloCyte course "Intracellular cytometry" will both be meeting on Thursday, March 13. Registration for these two events is separate from registration for the regional meeting.

Registration for the regional meeting on Friday and Saturday is $25. For registration materials or additional information, click here, or contact the meeting coordinator, Allan Kachelmeier, at kachelme@ohsu.edu or 503-494-2373.

Click here to download the meeting brochure.