Practicalities of … Cellular Analysis Monday 23rd March 2015 Draft Programme
08.45 08.45-09.40 09.40-09.50
Registration opens Refreshments and networking in sponsor exhibition space Welcome and introduction (Martin Cox)
Plenary Session Chair: Kath White 09.50- Matthia Winter-Karreman, EMBL 10.35 Lights will guide you: from in vivo imaging to ultrastructural detail with correlative microscopy Parallel Sessions: Flow Cytometry Session Chair: Andy Filby 10.40- Dario Melguizo 11.15 Newcastle University Modelling idiopathic Aplastic Anaemia using induced pluripotent stem cell technology 11.1511.50
Adam Laing King’s College London Building an encyclopaedia of the mouse immune system challenges and opportunities of big flow datasets
11.50-13.05
Imaging Session Chair: Alex Laude Alexia Chrysostomou Newcastle University Using confocal techniques and image analysis to understand the impact of mitochondrial disease on synapses Jonathan Phillips Newcastle University The development of CLARITY to help further understand neurodegeneration in mitochondrial disease
Electron Microscopy Session Chair: Kath White Chris Peddie Cancer Research UK Serial blockface imaging and correlative microscopy: exploring the third dimension Claire Rind Newcastle University Application of serial block face electron microscopy (SBEM) to circuits found in the locust brain that operate to detect collision trajectories
Lunch and networking in sponsor exhibition space
Plenary Session Chair: Alex Laude 13.05- Paul Rees, Swansea University 13.50 Engineering approaches to cell cycle analysis using imaging cytometry Parallel Sessions: 13.5514.30 14.3015.05
Flow Cytometry Session Chair: Andy Filby Derek Davies, Cancer Research UK Practicalities of Cell cycle and Ploidy analysis
Susanne Heck & Richard Ellis Guy’s & St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust Practicalities of Cytof acquisition and analysis
15.05-15.45
Imaging Session Chair: Alex Laude Tom Quick, Zeiss Laser Microdissection and Optical Tweezers: Applications for the ZEISS CombiSystem Aicha Metchat, Newcastle University Studying homologous chromosomes segregation in mammalian oocyte using high resolution microscopy
Refreshments and networking in sponsor exhibition space
Plenaries Session Chair: Martin Cox 15.45- Tomáš Kalina, Charles University, 2nd Faculty of Medicine and Faculty Hospital Motol, Prague 16.30 Standardization of Flow Cytometry Assays: What for? How? Where does it lead us? 16.30- Andy Filby, Newcastle University 17.00 Integrative Cytometry for the Study of Immune Cell Function 17.00
Drinks reception and networking in sponsor exhibition space
Practicalities of … Cellular ‘Omics & Informatics Tuesday 24th March 2015 Draft Programme
09.00 09.00-10.00
Registration opens Refreshments and networking in sponsor exhibition space
Plenary Session Chair and Introduction: Achim Treumann 10.00- Sharad Mistry, University of Leicester 10.45 Proteomics in a core facility setting - What can we achieve? Parallel Sessions: 10.5011.20 11.2011.50
Genomics & Informatics Session Chair: Simon Cockell Sarra Ryan, Newcastle University Sequencing the leukaemia genome; what, where and when?
Proteomics Peter Banks Dalal Al-baijan, Newcastle University Exploiting the potential of Agave for bioenergy in marginal lands
Caroline Relton, Newcastle University Uses for genome-wide DNA methylation data in disease prediction, prevention and treatment
Achim Treumann, Newcastle University A Heart for Mass Spectrometry
11.50-13.20
Lunch and networking in sponsor exhibition space
Parallel Sessions: 13.2013.50 13.5014.20
Genomics & Informatics Session Chair: Jon Coxhead Neil Hall, University of Liverpool A year into embedding the PacBio RS II platform: Experiences and applications so far Silvia Borras, Newgene Targeted sequencing in molecular diagnostics and clinical research
14.20-15.05
High-Throughput Screening Session Chair: Achim Treumann Scott Walker, Newcastle University The Use of High Throughput siRNA Screening to Identify Kinases Involved in Prostate Cancer Progression Peter Banks, Newcastle University Achieving a Successful High Throughput Screen
Refreshments and networking in sponsor exhibition space
Plenaries Session Chair: Deb Henderson 15.05- Nick Loman, University of Birmingham 15.50 Towards portable, real-time genome sequencing 15.50- David Gray, University of Dundee 16.35 Diversity screening for chemical biology and drug discovery - the DDU experience 16.35
Closing Remarks and Prize Draw
Conference close
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