Continuing its commitment to educational programs in the science and practice of quantitative imaging cytometry, the International QIC Centers of Excellence are pleased to announce that the 2010 QIC Symposium will be held on August 10-12 in Boston, Massachusetts, hosted by the International QIC Center at Children's Hospital Boston, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School.  As the attached agenda confirms, the three-day symposium and advanced practical workshops will uphold the Center's commitment to excellence and diversity in scientific information exchange .

Registration is now open at http://www.imagingcytometrycenter.com/BostonAgendaiQIC.htm.  As in previous years, we expect this symposium to be over-subscribed. We advise you to register well in advance to assure space availability.

Symposium presentations will include the following:

Imaging Cytometry: An Expanding Role in Biomedical Imaging Analysis - William Telford, PhD, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Spatial Analysis of Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells in Bone Marrow - Leslie Silberstein, MD, Children's Hospital Boston, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Combinatorial Development of Biomaterials for Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery - Daniel Anderson, PhD, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

The iCys^® Imaging Cytometer in the Epigenetic Toolbox for Autism Research - Janine  LaSalle, PhD, UC Davis School of Medicine, Davis, CA.

Assessment of DNA Damage by High-Resolution Cytometry - Zbigniew Darzynkiewicz, MD, PhD, Brander Cancer Research Institute, Valhalla, NY

Advanced Cell Cycle Analysis - James Jacobberger, PhD, Case Western Reserve University and Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland OH

The Untapped Potential of Laser Scanning Cytometry in Genome Damage, Proteome and Nutritional Diagnostics at the Single Cell and Sub-Type Level - Michael Fenech, PhD, CSIRO Food and Nutrition Sciences, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Adelaide, Australia

Potential Mechanisms for the Generation of Chromosome Aneuploidy in Human Cancer -
John M. Lehman, PhD, Brody School of Medicine, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC

Application of Imaging Cytometry to the Molecular Therapeutics of Human Solid Tumors -
David Hedley, MD, Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

Leveraging Quantitative Imaging Cytometry to Measure the Pharmacodynamic Impact of Drugs in Development - Gloria Juan, PhD, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA

Quantitative Imaging Cytometry for the Diagnostic Pathologist:  What Does the Laser Scatter Imaging Component Add? - William Geddie, MD, University Health Network/Toronto General Hospital, Toronto ON, Canada

Mislocalization of APAFI as a Novel Diagnostic and Prognostic Marker for Refractory Diffuse B-Cell Lymphoma? - Shazib Pervaiz, MBBS, PhD, National University of Singapore and Duke-NUS GMS

Capturing Signaling Events in the Immune System in Situ - Margaret Harnett, PhD, Glasgow Biomedical Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Afternoon workshops include the following:

Cytome Diagnostics (Instructor:  Michael Fenech, PhD, CSIRO Food and Nutrition Sciences

Adelaide, Australia)

Automated Quantitative Analysis of Protein Expression in Tissues (Sections, FNAs, CNBs, TMAs)

(Instructor:  David Krull, GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC)

Advanced Cell Cycle Analysis (Instructors:  James Jacobberger, PhD and Tammy Stefan, Case Comprehensive Cancer Center, Cleveland, OH)

Immunophenotyping in FNAs (fine needle aspirates)  (Instructor:  William Geddie, MD, UHN/Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada)

Analysis of Drug-Induced DNA Damage  (Instructor: Shazib Pervaiz, National University of Singapore and Duke-NUS GMS, and Andrea Holme, National University of Singapore)

Quantitative Imaging of Bone Marrow Microenvironment  (Instructors:  César Nombela-Arrieta, PhD and Shin-Young Park, PhD, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA)