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Location:
The Royal College of Physicians
Date:
27 May 2009
Contact:
Gemma Bantock
Tel:
01865 254768
Fax:
01865 791237
Email:
gemma@rms.org.uk
Website:
none
Event Description
Organiser: Ricardo Morilla
Flow cytometry has been used in Haemato-Oncology for the diagnosis of Leukaemia and lymphoma for the last thirty years. During this period, this complex discipline played a major contribution in haematological malignancies classification, diagnosis and prognosis.
There is a need to focus on the continuous training of operators and scientists particularly due to the recent evolution of instrumentation, lasers, fluorochromes and applications in the clinical laboratory.
The aim of the meeting is to discuss the main aspects of the use of flow cytometry for immunophenotyping. The meeting will be of interest to both people who are new in the field and those with some experience, including scientists, technicians, doctors and trade representatives.
My intention is to address topics in a friendly and stimulating educational atmosphere, I will prepare the popular Flow Quiz to encourage audience participation, controversial topics such as multicolour panels and biphenotypic leukaemia are going to be discussed by Ulsika Johanson and Paul Virgo, Steve Couzens will present clinical case reports to illustrate data interpretation and diagnosis in a clinical context. Representatives from the sponsor commercial vendors will be available to talk about their most recent instruments and reagents.
The afternoon session will be packed with speakers with experience in their filed of interest i.e. clinical trials Nicki Panoskaltsis form Northwick Park Hospital, histopathology: Ayoma Attygalle: the Royal Marsden Hospital and David Bloxham from Addenbrookes Cambridge.
I sincerely hope that we will attract as many interested colleagues as usual, and that we will be able to continue with this instructional meeting and maintain it as an established annual event.
The participation of the sponsoring companies with a brief presentation of their latest products will be also of interest to the participants.
This meeting is accredited by the IBMS and attracts 7 CPD points.
Programme from 2008:
9.15 - 9.45 Registration and coffee.
9.45 - 10.00 Flow Cytometry Quiz 08.
Ricardo Morilla.
Haemato-Oncology Department, Royal Marsden Hospital
10.00 10.30 Multicolour Flow cytometry The MIG UK experience.
Ulrika Johanson
Barts and The London Hospital.
10.30 - 11.30 Biphenotypic leukaemia to be or not to be
Paul Virgo
Southmead Hospital, Bristol
11.30 - 12.00 Quiz discussion.
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch. Visit to exhibits
13.00 - 14.00 What is new in the market?
Sponsor Companies presentations:
14.00 14.30 Educational case presentations
Stephen Couzens,
Haematology Department, University Hospital of Wales
14.30 - 15.00 Coffee
15.00 15.45 Monitoring of immune cell subsets and intracellular cytokines by flow cytometry in the research and clinical laboratory - case studies in AML, CLL and the TGN1412 clinical trial at Northwick Park Hospital
Nicki Panoskaltsis
Haematology Department, Northwick Park Hospital
15.45 16.30 Classification of NHL by Histopathology immuno methods.
Ayoma Attygalle
Pathology Department Royal Marsden Hospital.
16.30- 17.00 'Diagnosis of Haematological Malignancy - Where are we now?'
David Bloxham
Haematology Department Addenbrooke's Hospital
17.00 Closing Remarks
Ricardo Morilla
