2005 CYTOMETRY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP:

SESSION TOPICS AND MODERATORS

 

SESSION 1 – CYTOMETRY HARDWARE (Nancy Perlmutter)

(Thursday afternoon 4:30 - 6:00)

Bob Hoffman - Use of visible & UV LED's for flow cytometry excitation

Paul Johnson - LED Illumination in Flow Cytometry                  

Yong Chen - Compact near UV laser excitation source and its application in high throughput desktop sorter.

Yong Chen     - A novel top-hat beam shaper & its application in flow cytometer

Martin Buescher - The MACS Quant Concept & Design            

Masahiko Kanda - Flow sorter using a near UV laser and a fiber optic detection system  

James Wood - Strategies for high speed flow cytometer pulse digitization                   

                                

SESSION 2 – IMAGE CYTOMETRY & AUTOMATED MICROSCOPY (Jeff Price)

(Thursday evening 7:30 - 9:00)

Paul Johnson - High-Throughput-Axial Imaging Flow Cytometry with LED illumination

Paul Johnson - Imaging Flow Cytometry

Lori Krueger - Automated image cytometry

Juchang Hua - The Protein Subcellular Location Image Database (PSLID): shared image collections and open source automated analysis system

Anne Carpenter - The open-source CellProfiler cell image analysis software project

Anne Carpenter - Genome-wide screens for a variety of cell phenotypes using automated microscopy & image analysis

Jeff Price - Image Cytometry Detection of Ultra-Rare Cancer Cells in Blood

David Zahniser – Current status of Pap test automation

 

SESSION 3 – FLOW SPECTROSCOPY (John Nolan)

(Friday morning 8:30 - 9:40)

John  Nolan - Fluorescence and Raman spectroscopy in flow           

Greg Goddard     - Spectral analysis flow cytometry          

Dakota Watson - Raman Flow cytometry         

David Basiji - Flow spectroscopy by time delay integration         

Mark Naivar - Spectroscopic data acquisition in flow         

Adam Treister - Software Implications of Flow Spectroscopy          

Bob Hoffman - Spectroscopy & conventional flow applications           

 

SESSION 4 – IMAGING (David Zahniser)

(Friday morning 9:40 – 10:00)

David Zahniser - LED die arrays in microscopy

Qiang Wu - Multiresolution Microscope Autofocusing                        

Qiang Wu - Extended Depth-of-Field Microscope Imaging              

Michael Zahniser - A new segmentation method; High speed, low cost microscopy imaging

 

SESSION 4 – IMAGING (CONTINUED)

(Friday morning 10:30 - 12:00)

Yanhua Hu - Automatic Classification of Time Series Images

Bart Vermolen     - Multimodal image acquisition and image fusion

Tutorial - Richard Levenson - Hands-on multispectral analysis of brightfield & fluorescence-based samples

Richard Levenson - Multispectral imaging, microscopy, multiplexing (& machine learning?)

 

SESSION 5 – CD4 TESTING TECHNOLOGIES & STANDARDS (Bob Hoffman)

(Friday afternoon 4:30 – 6:00)

Kovit Pattanapanyasat - Affordable; Alternative; New cheap technologies for CD4 Testing      

Tutorial – Kovit Pattanapanyasat - Evaluation of 2 new inexpensive flow cytometers for CD4 T-cells enumeration in resource poor settings 

Bob Hoffman - BD's efforts in clinical testing HIV/AIDS in resource poor countries

Bob Hoffman - NIST fluorescence standardization program        

David Parks- Quantification of antibody staining      

Doug Redelman - Standardization of immunofluorescence measurements in flow cytometry

 

SESSION 6 IMAGING (Damir Sudar)

(Friday evening 7:30 - 9:30)

Howard Shapiro - Cellular astronomy

Bob Murphy - Building generative models from fluorescence microscope images for systems biology

Bart Vermolen     - 3 dimensional spectral karyotyping

Jeff Price - 3D Cytometry for Drug and Toxicity Screening    

Jeff Price - Unsupervised Spectral Decomposition for Automated Densitometry in Histological Sections
Jeff Price - Membrane Segmentation for Generalized Image Cytometry

Damir Sudar – Exploratory visualization of information from images   

Cris Luengo - Measuring expression patterns in fruitfly embryos

Hanchuan Peng - Image mining for fruitfly gene expression data

 

SESSION 6 – IMAGING (CONTINUED)

(Saturday morning 8:30 – 9:20)

Ge Yang    - Probing spatial and temporal dynamics of cytoskeleton using automated large-scale particle tracking   

Elliot Botvinick - Video rate sperm tracking with automated swimming force measurements and swimming characterization through object tracking and image analysis

Elliot Botvinick - Internet accessible laser scissor and laser tweezers

Elliot Botvinick - Multi-Level Thresholds for pixel class separation to study kinase activity with FRET probes

Elliot Botvinick - Ultra-localized fluid shear stresses on cell by rotating microspheres in optical traps

 

SESSION 7 FLOW HARDWARE (Howard Shapiro)

(Saturday morning 9:20 – 10:00)

Eric Chase - Q & B Measurement                    

David Parks - Instrument diagnosis using control samples & test particles

Marty Bigos -Optimizing filter selection for flow optometry                      

David Parks - Fully automated & optimized fluorescence compensation                  

 

SESSION 8 FLOW CYTOMETRY APPLICATIONS (Howard Shapiro)

(Saturday morning 10:30 - 12:00)

John Nolan - Small particle flow cytometry               

Jakob     Waldbauer - Flow Cytometry of marine bacterioplankton populations (cultured & natural)

James Freyer - Flow cytometry of isolated mitochondria                  

Tutorial – Nigel Llewellyn-Smith  - The flow antibody market & the future of flow

Joseph Spidlen - A flow cytometry ontology             

William Godfrey - Dyes for live cell analysis

 

SESSION 9 FLOW SOFTWARE (Adam Treister)

(Saturday afternoon 4:30 - 6:00)     

Ryan Brinkman - Bioinformatics Data Standards for Flow Cytometry

John Watkins - Using the client server model in flow analysis                   

Adam Treister - Statistical Comparison of Biological Populations

Aaron Perilatt - The availability and usage of a free Java package that allows the user to create software for reading and writing FCS sample files retrieved from a flow cytometer 

Maciej Simm - Multicolor analysis and Polyvariate Display    

 

SESSION 10 FLOW CYTOMETRY APPLICATIONS & SORTING (Marty Bigos)

(Saturday evening 7:30 - 9:00)

Tutorial – Richard Konz - High Content Polychromatic Flow Cytometry: HTS

Perry Haaland -   Informatics issues for plate based flow

Charles Schmitt - Organizing gated results for analysis

Marty Bigos - Comparison of dead cell dyes for permeabilized cells

Stephen Perfetto - 17 color panel construction & cell viability

Stephen Perfetto - Advantages of the green laser in polychromatic flow cytometry