GLIIFCA
99 SummaryGLIIFCA
99 Summary
Summary of the Eighth Annual Meeting of the Great Lakes International Imaging and Flow Cytometry Association, the Park East Hotel, Milwaukee, WI, October 1-3, 1999.
The Eighth GLIIFCA meeting was an unparalleled scientific success. We had a meeting attendance of 137, which included users from as far away as Thailand. Twenty-three companies sponsored our meeting that included a Friday night reception, sponsored by Beckman-Coulter, and a Crazy Eight Tacky Flowdown, sponsored by Becton Dickinson Biosciences, on Saturday night. Drs. Jonni Moore, Betsy Ohlsson-Wilhelm and Kathy Muirhead, representing the state of Pennsylvania, were the program organizers of the three plenary sessions. Three featured speakers, Phil McCoy, Carolyn Keever-Taylor and Carl June gave very interesting keynote addresses with exciting history and applications of flow cytometry. Helene Paxton explained the new regulations for analyte specific reagents and “home brew”. Carl Stewart provided insights into four-color compensation. Lorie Charie described the use of flow cytometry for evaluating HIV, PNH and GpIIb/IIIa receptor occupancy on platelets. Michele Bergeron discussed single vs double platform quantitation of cell concentration. Mike Esterman provided an overview of imaging cytometry. Emerging Flow applications were discussed in the second plenary by Viki Mosiman, Lynn DiVito-Haynes, Ray Waters, Eva Wojcik and Alan Stall. Future applications in the last plenary were presented by Jake Jacobberger and David Hedley. We had six competition plenary presentations for our Platform Speaker Award of $150: Mohamed Zaki, Lisa Green, Kayoko Kimura, Tao Fu, Andrew Wells and Donna Williams. Our winner was Andrew Wells from the University of Pennsylvania. Seven $100 travel stipends were also presented to Sally Palmerton, Lyn Hillyer, Kayoko Kimura, Jan Konyer, Kathy Katzke, Andrew Wells and Tao Fu.
Our newest experiment was our luncheon workshops. The eight choices were: Core Facility Management, co-chairs, Kristi Harkins, Julie Auger, Platelet Flow Cytometry, co-chairs, Vince Shankey, Phil Marder, Cell Cycle Regulation and Apoptosis, co-chairs, Jake Jacobberger, David Hedley, Cell Sorting and Instrument Maintenance, co-chairs, Hank Pletcher, Kathy Schell, Cytokine Networks, co-chairs, Jonni Moore, Mohammed Zaki, Image Analysis, chair, Paul Robinson, Leukemia/Lymphoma, chair, Carl Stewart, Clinical Cytometry, co-chairs, Phil McCoy, Chuck Goolsby. The informal discussions provided for questions from participants. This was very well received by all and next year we plan to continue this idea by extending the time 30 minutes and provide a break in the middle so participants can move to a different workshop group.
T-shirts featuring our new logo were another fun happening besides our Crazy Eight Tacky Flowdown. The imaginations of our members on costumes for this party were as boundless as ever before. The winner of the most tacky outfit was Mark Munson from Verity Software House. Those “Mainers” are something else. Runners up were Phil McCoy, Roy Overton and Mo O’Gorman.
We welcome Bruce Pesch from IOWA to
our steering committee. We know Iowa is not on a great lake, but
we figure the Mississippi to the gulf to the Atlantic to the St. Lawrence
River is the link. So now we can call ourselves the Greater GLIIFCA
or GGLIIFCA. The program chairs will be Phil Marder and Paul Robinson,
representing the State of Indiana. See you there. Make sure
you visit our web site for updated news on GLIIFCA and our next meeting
in Detroit, October 6-8, 2000.
http://www.cyto.purdue.edu/flowcyt/glifca/gliifca.htm
