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To all,

The 2008 NW Regional Cytometry Meeting will be held this week at OHSU, March
13 - 15. 2008 NWRCM egistration is now closed. If you have registered you
should have received an info packet. If you haven't registered, and have a
late urge to join us, you are welcome - I just can't guarantee lunches and
Friday evening dinner. Below is a simplified sketch of the program. Note the
updated details on the ISAC-FICCS meeting and ImageStream Interest Group
dinner. Other details are in the brochure at *
http://www.isac-net.org/media/2008NWRCM.pdf* . (A detailed time schedule is
available on request.)

Synopsis of updated details: The schedule of the FICCS4 meeting on March 13
is posted at *http://www.ficcs.org/meetings/ficcs4/ficcs4.html* .
Registration for the Amnis-sponsored ImageStream Interest Group meeting and
dinner on March 13 is at *www.regonline.com/IIGPortland* . The registration
deadline on lunches and buffet at the 2008 NW Regional Cytometry Meeting is
March 7.

Thursday, March 13

9:00am - 4:30pm ISAC-FICCS co-hosted meeting, 'Data standards and software
tools for high throughput cytometry'. Speakers include Janet Siebert
(CytoAnalytics), Kevin Banks (Labkey), Errol Strain (BD), Florian Hahne
(Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute), Raphael Gottardo (Statistics,
UBC), Peter Krutzik (Immunology, Stanford), and Jim Wood (Chair, ISAC Data
Standards Task Force). Working session focus groups are in the afternoon.

9am - 4:30pm FloCyte course, 'Intracellular Cytometry', taught by Dr.
Dorothy Lewis.

4:30pm - 5:30pm Panel discussion on Minimum Information Standards

4:30pm - 7:30pm Hors d'oeuvres, refreshments, poster viewing, and vendor
demos

6:30pm - 9:30pm Amnis-sponsored ImageStream Interest Group meeting and
dinner at the Marriott Riverplace, including Leigh Samsel, National Heart,
Lung, and Blood Institute. Registration for this meeting is at *
www.regonline.com/IIGPortland* - a separate Amnis-site registration is
required.

Friday, March 14

8am - 6pm NWRCM talks and forums

6:30pm - 9:30pm Evening dinner buffet and refreshments at the Kohler
Pavilion, co-sponsored by Beckman Coulter. Remarks by Dr. Dan Dorsa, OHSU VP
for Research.

Saturday, March 15

8am - 5pm NWRCM talks and forums

For details on the ISAC-Flow Informatics and Computational Cytometry Society
meeting, go to *http://www.ficcs.org/meetings/ficcs4/ficcs4.html* . For
details and registration for the FloCyte course, go to *www.FloCyte.com* .
For information about the whole program, a link to the brochure is at *
http://www.isac-net.org/media/2008NWRCM.pdf* . For further information,
contact Allan Kachelmeier at *[log in to unmask]* or 503-494-2373. Thanks.

Allan Kachelmeier, 2008 NWRCM coordinator

Manager, confocal microscopy core

Oregon Hearing Research Center

OHSU

Portland, Oregon

Program sponsors include Oregon Hearing Research Center, BD Biosciences,
Beckman Coulter, Invitrogen, PerkinElmer, Amnis Corp., Cytopeia, Dako,
CompuCyte, TTPLabtech, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Accelrys, Accuri
Cytometers, Applied Cytometry Systems, Bay Bioscience, BioLegend, Chi-Square
Works, Cell Signaling Technology, Cytek Development, De Novo Software,
FloCyte Associates, Guava Technologies, iCyt Mission Technology, IntelliCyt,
Miltenyi Biotec, MDS Analytical Technologies, Olympus Advalytix, Partec,
Phoenix Flow Systems, StemCell Technologies, Tree Star, Union Biometrica,
and Verity Software House.