Invited Speakers Workshop Programme Timetable Social Programme   "Train the Trainer" Workshop (1st November, 2009) Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Plaza Level Room (Red) P1   Sunday 1st November, 2009 Time Speaker Topic 9:00am - 6:30pm Registration 9:30am - 9:40am Deborah Shapira CSIRO Overview of current world situation HIV/AIDS monitoring, introduction to AVoCA. 9:40am - 9:45am Dr Vince Shankey ISAC Councillor and Beckman Coulter International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC) programs. 9:45am - 10:45am Dr Jessica Markby/Ms Mary Dini Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative and PNG Government Hospital Flow cytometry in Papua New Guinea. 10:45am - 11:15am Ms Agnes Nabasurve Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, Uganda Flow cytometry in Uganda.   11:15am - 11:35am Morning tea   11:35am - 11:55am Prof J. Paul Robinson Purdue University, USA Cytometry 4 Life. 11:55am - 12:15pm Ms Deborah Shapira/Ms Gloria Santander Millipore EasyCD4 Guava Technologies. 12:15pm - 12:35pm Mr David Bastien Partec Essential Healthcare, Germany CyFlow Partec. 12:35pm - 12:55pm Dr John Wotherspoon BD Biosciences BD Good Laboratory Practice Programs.   12:55pm - 1:45pm Lunch   1:45pm - 2:30pm Ms Deborah Shapira CSIRO Chair and Moderator Q and A session. All morning speakers to act as panelists. 2:30pm - 3:15pm Ms Deborah Shapira CSIRO Chair and Moderator Planning session – How to proceed with volunteer program, constitutional connection to AFCG, charity registration and formal recognition by AusAID, fundraising.   3:15pm - 3:30pm Afternoon tea   3:30pm - 5:30pm Dr Adam Winterhalter BD Biosciences FACSCount Workshop to include CD4% module (restricted to PNG technicians).** 3:30pm - 5:30pm Mr David Bastien Partec Essential Healthcare, Germany CyFlow Partec Workshop (restricted to PNG technicians and bone fide volunteers).** **Note: Due to space restrictions and the fact that there will be sponsored technicians in attendance only a limited number of persons will be able to attend the FACSCount and CyFlow workshops. As you will hear during the program we plan to hold more intensive workshops on these instruments for volunteers and the instruments will be available for viewing at the trade display.   6:00pm onwards SOCIAL FUNCTION Ice Breaker at Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre trade display and plaza terrace (see social programme for details).         Annual Meeting (2nd - 4th November, 2009) Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Plaza level (Red) P1 – P5   Monday 2nd November, 2009 Time Speaker Topic 8:00am - 5:30pm Registration (Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, Plaza Foyer) 8:25am - 8:30am Grace Chojnowski AFCG President Welcome and Meeting Opening. Session 1 Chair: Grace Chojnowski 8:30am - 9:10am Prof. Ian Frazer Opportunities and Challenges for Biomedical Research in Australia. 9:10am - 9:50am Brent Wood Minimal residual disease detection by flow cytometry in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia. 9:50am - 10:30am Zbygniew Darzynkiewicz Cytometry of Apoptosis.   10:30am - 11:00am Morning tea in exhibition area   Session 2 Chair: Frank Battye 11:00am - 11:30am Ian Dimmick The Essentials Required To Achieve Accurate Multicolour Flow Cytometry Data. 11:30am - 11:50am Geoff Osborne Integration Of Microfluidic Devices In Conventional Flow Cytometers. 11:50am - 12:30pm Zbygniew Darzynkiewicz Beyond Flow: Image Assisted Cytometry.   12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch   Session 3 Chair: John Zaunders 1:30pm - 2:10pm Alberto Orfao Immunophenotypic Approaches for the Screening of GPI-deficient Cells and Diagnosis of PNH. 2:10pm - 2:25pm Sponsor presentation - Cytognos 2:25pm - 2:45pm Sandy Smith Using Light Chain Expression To Effectively Identify B Lineage Neoplasms. 2:45pm - 3:05pm Fiona Robins Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia Minimal Residual Disease Flow Cytometric Testing Using A 6 Colour Analysis Based Upon The International Standardised Approach. 3:05pm - 3:20pm Sponsor presentation - Inivai   3:20pm - 3:50pm Afternoon tea in exhibition area   Session 4 Chair: Geoff Osborne 3:50pm - 4:30pm John Sharpe Advances In Flow Cytometry For Sperm Sexing. 4:30pm - 4:50pm Andrew Wood Applications For Flow Cytometry In Giant Tiger Prawn Genetic Improvement Programs. 4:50pm - 5:05pm Sponsor presentation - Millipore 5:05pm - 5:20pm Sponsor presentation - Invitrogen     Tuesday 3rd November, 2009 Time Speaker Topic Session 5 Chair: Kathy Heel 8:30am - 9:10am Alberto Orfao Immunophenotypic Approaches for the Screening of GPI-deficient Cells and Diagnosis of PNH. 9:10am - 9:30am Elizabeth Todorova Flow Cytometric Assessment Of Tcr-Vbeta Expression In The Evaluation Of Peripheral Blood Involvement By Mature T-Cell Leukaemias. 9:30am - 9:50am Simon Apte Analyzing CD8 T Cell Function and Phenotype by Flow Cytometry. 9:50am - 10:10am Desiree Meyer From the FACScan to the FACSCanto II. 10:10am - 10:30am Mary Sartor RCPA.   10:30am - 11:00am Morning tea in exhibition area (plus Melbourne Cup sweep draw)   Session 6 Chair: Mary Sartor 11:00am - 11:40am Vince Shankey Flow Cytometric Measurement Of Multiple Signal Transduction Pathways In Lipopolysaccharide (Lps) Activated Human Peripheral Blood Monocytes. 11:40am - 11:55am Sponsor presentation - Beckman Coulter 11:55am - 12:15pm Michelle Neller Ex vivo analysis of effective T cell responses against advanced melanoma. 12:15pm - 12:35pm Vuong Nguyen Validation of Appropriate Storage Conditions for Flow Cytometry Samples.   12:35pm - 1:30pm Lunch   Session 7 Chair: Lyndsay Peters 1:30pm - 2:10pm Paul Robinson High Throughput Cytometry: Lots of cells but no way to analyze them! 2:10pm - 2:30pm Melbourne Cup 2:30pm - 3:10pm Zbygniew Darzynkiewicz Cytometric Assessment of DNA Damage Response by Cytometry. 3:10pm - 3:25pm Sponsor Presentation - Dako 3:25pm - 3:40pm Sponsor Presentation - Miltenyi   3:40pm - 4:10pm Afternoon tea in exhibition area   4:10pm - 5:30pm Poster session   6:30pm - 7:00pm SOCIAL FUNCTION Pre-dinner drinks at Customs House. 7:30pm onwards SOCIAL FUNCTION Conference dinner at Customs House.     Wednesday 4th November, 2009 Time Speaker Topic Session 8 Chair: Deborah Shapiro 8:30am - 9:10am David Hedley Studying complexity in solid tumours using high dimensional flow cytometry. 9:10am - 9:30am Nicole Bassler Generation Of A Flow Cytometric Tool For Detection Of Activated Monocytes. 9:30am - 9:50am Wan Azizan Natural killer cells and T regulatory cells in Rheumatic heart disease patients on admission. 9:50am - 10:10am Ashraful Haque Detection and analysis of pathogen-specific CD8+ T cells during murine experimental cerebral malaria. 10:10am - 10:25am Sponsor presentation - Becton Dickinson   10:25am - 10:55am Morning tea in exhibition area   10:55am - 12:20pm Annual General Meeting 12:20pm - 12:30pm Passport prizes   12:30pm - 1:30pm Lunch   Session 9 Chair: Sue Francis 1:30pm - 2:10pm Grace Chojnowski Andy Riddell ISAC. Core Managers. 2:10pm - 2:30pm Andrew Mitchell Autofluorescence as a tool for the characterisation of myeloid cells. 2:30pm - 2:50pm John Zaunders Complex subsets of human CD4+ T lymphocytes and HIV infection. 2:50pm - 3:10pm Tatiana Banovic Natural Killer T cells enumeration in a suspected NKT deficiency. 3:10pm - 3:25pm Sponsor presentation - Stemcell 3:25pm - 3:40pm Sponsor presentation - de Novo
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