08:30 - 09:30

Registration and Breakfast

09:30 - 09:45

Welcome – Peter Lopez

09:45 - 10:40

"Flow cytometry without limits: Excitation across the entire visible spectrum”

 William Telford, Ph.D.

Head, NIH Experimental Transplantation and Immunonology  Branch's FACS Core Facilty

10:40 - 11:35

"Flow Cytometry Clinical Assay, the journey from development to implementation in the Clinical Lab Setting"

Horacio G. Vall, Ph.D.

Discipline Director for Flow Associate Vice President of Science and Technology, US LABS Cytometry, LabCorp

11:35 - 11:50

Coffee Break & Corporate Member Exhibits

11:50 - 12:45

“Increasing Utilization of Flow Cytometry in Clinical Trials"

Thomas W.  Mc Closkey, Ph.D.

Associate Director Research and Development, ICON Central Laboratory

12:45 - 01:45

Lunch & Corporate Member Exhibits

01:45 - 02:40

“Validation of fluorescence cell based assays—ICSH Guidelines"

            Bruce Davis, MD

            President, Trillium Diagnostics

02:40 - 02:55

Coffee Break & corporate Member Exhibits

02:55 – 03.50

"Monitoring Immune Responses with MHC Class I Multimers: Focus on CMV in Bone Marrow Transplant Patients Post-Transplant."

            Paul K. Wallace, PhD 

            Associate Professor, Departments of Pathology and Biotechnical and Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University at Buffalo (SUNY)

03.50 - 04:45

"Hematopoietic Bone Marrow Cell Sorting Without Compromise: Seven Lasers, Eight Colors, Six Way Sorting - A Novel Approach."

            John Tigges, ASCP  

            Technical Director, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Flow Cytometry Core Facility - Harvard Stem Cell Institute Flow Cytometry Facility