All timings are Central European Time (CET) (+1 hour GMT)

Thursday 4 December the meeting will start at 14:00CET (13:00GMT) and finish at 18:00CET (17:00GMT)

Friday 5 December the meeting will start at 09:55CET (08:55GMT) and finish at 14:30CET (13:30GMT)

Thursday 4 December
14:00 – 14:15
Introduction to the meeting

Introduction to the meeting with Desiree Kunkel

14:15 – 14:25
Invited Speaker Virginia Litwin presenting "International Society for Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC)"

Session 1 - Communities and Societies with Session Chair: Marjolijn Hameetman (Co-chair: Philip Hobson) 

14:25 – 14:35
Invited Speaker Lola Martinez presenting "Core Technologies for Life Sciences (CTLS)"

Session 1 - Communities and Societies with Session Chair: Marjolijn Hameetman (Co-chair: Philip Hobson) 

14:35 – 14:45
Invited Speaker Yanping Guo presenting "Royal Microscopical Society (RMS)"

Session 1 - Communities and Societies with Session Chair: Marjolijn Hameetman (Co-chair: Philip Hobson) 

14:45 – 14:55
Biomedicum Flow Cytometry Core Facility, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Crib Talks with Session Chair: Derek Davies (Co-chair: Ekaterina Kopitman)

14:55 – 15:05
Core Facility for Cytometry within the JKU Center for Medical Research, Austria

Crib Talks with Session Chair: Derek Davies (Co-chair: Ekaterina Kopitman)

15:05 – 15:15
IFOM Flow Cytometry Facility, The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milano, Italy

Crib Talks with Session Chair: Derek Davies (Co-chair: Ekaterina Kopitman)

15:15 – 15:30
Core Facility Q&As

Crib Talks with Session Chair: Derek Davies (Co-chair: Ekaterina Kopitman)

15:30 – 15:35
Vesiculab Ltd - "Facilitating Extracellular Vesicle-Flow Cytometric Analysis via Improved Sample Preparation & Calibration" presented by Dimitri Aubert

Techno Bites with Session Chair: Peter O'Toole (Co-chair: Lena Müller)

15:35 – 15:40
Beckman Coulter Life Sciences - "Flow Cytometry Solutions" presented by Andreas Wicovsky

Techno Bites with Session Chair: Peter O'Toole (Co-chair: Lena Müller)

15:40 – 15:45
Idea Elan - "Manage your cores in a few clicks (words) with Infinity X AI" presented by Elango M

Techno Bites with Session Chair: Peter O'Toole (Co-chair: Lena Müller)

15:45 – 15:50
Techno Bite TBC

Techno Bites with Session Chair: Peter O'Toole (Co-chair: Lena Müller)

15:50 – 16:00
Break

General

16:00 – 16:20
Invited Speaker Corina Brussaard presenting "Marine Virus Ecology"

Session 2 - Exploring non-classical Applications with Session Chair: Charlotte Petersen (Co-chair: Gerald Pfister)

16:20 – 16:40
Invited Speaker Ziv Porat presenting "Crystals quantification by imaging flow cytometry"

Session 2 - Exploring non-classical Applications with Session Chair: Charlotte Petersen (Co-chair: Gerald Pfister)

16:40 – 17:00
Invited Speaker Michael Eigenschink presenting "Flow Cytometry of erythroid cells: Pitfalls, Limitations, and Best Practices"

Session 2 - Exploring non-classical Applications with Session Chair: Charlotte Petersen (Co-chair: Gerald Pfister)

17:00 – 17:05
FluoroFinder - "FluoroFinder - A Fluorescence Experiment Design Platform" presented by Padmini Narayanan

Techno Bites with Session Chair: Desiree Kunkel (Co-chair: Philip Hobson)

17:05 – 17:10
CellEngine by CellCarta - "Fast, metadata-driven cytometry analysis with CellEngine" presented by Zach Bjornson

Techno Bites with Session Chair: Desiree Kunkel (Co-chair: Philip Hobson)

17:10 – 17:20
Final thoughts and wrap up

Final thoughts and wrap up

17:20 – 17:30
Poll Questions

Poll questions

17:30 – 18:00
Open discussion & questions

Networking session

Friday 5 December
10:00 – 10:10
Core Flow Cytometry, Ghent University, Belgium

Crib Talks with Session Chair: Derek Davies (Co-chair: Ekaterina Kopitman)

10:10 – 10:20
Flow Cytometry Core Lab, University of Glasgow, Scotland

Crib Talks with Session Chair: Derek Davies (Co-chair: Ekaterina Kopitman)

10:20 – 10:30
TraCy – Translational Cytometry Scientific Platform, University of Porto, Portugal

Crib Talks with Session Chair: Derek Davies (Co-chair: Ekaterina Kopitman)

10:30 – 10:45
Core Facility Q&As

Crib Talks with Session Chair: Derek Davies (Co-chair: Ekaterina Kopitman)

10:45 – 11:00
Invited Speaker Gijsbert van Willigen presenting "Sorting with Care: Navigating Biosafety in Flow Cytometry"

Session 3 - Lab Infrastructure with Session Chair: Ekaterina Kopitman (Co-chair: Derek Davies)

11:00 – 11:15
Invited Speakers Lena Müller presenting "The Good, the Bad, and the Unexpected: Lessons from Building an SRL Core Lab"

Session 3 - Lab Infrastructure with Session Chair: Ekaterina Kopitman (Co-chair: Derek Davies)

11:15 – 11:30
Invited Speaker Peter O' Toole presenting "Accessibility support - going beyond the visible"

Session 3 - Lab Infrastructure with Session Chair: Ekaterina Kopitman (Co-chair: Derek Davies)

11:30 – 11:45
Invited Speaker Mariana Fernandes presenting "Merging two facilities: a journey full of challenges and opportunities"

Session 3 - Lab Infrastructure with Session Chair: Ekaterina Kopitman (Co-chair: Derek Davies)

11:45 – 12:00
Break

General

12:00 – 12:05
BioLegend - "CytoScribe - cloud-based flow cytometry data analysis" presented by Amber Vaitkute

Techno Bites with Session Chair: Phil Hobson (Co-chair: Desiree Kunkel)

12:05 – 12:10
Miltenyi Biotec - "MACSQuant Tyto Lux: One Sorter, Endless Possibilities" presented by Marco Guadagnoli

Techno Bites with Session Chair: Phil Hobson (Co-chair: Desiree Kunkel)

12:10 – 12:15
Proteintech - "FcZero: Recombinant flow-optimised antibodies that bind to what they're supposed to!" presented by Alastair McKee

Techno Bites with Session Chair: Phil Hobson (Co-chair: Desiree Kunkel)

12:15 – 12:20
Techno Bite TBC

Techno Bites with Session Chair: Phil Hobson (Co-chair: Desiree Kunkel)

12:20 – 12:40
Invited Speaker Edwin van der Pol presenting "Setting up a flow cytometer for extracellular vesicle detection"

Session 4 - Small & Large in Flow Cytometry with Session Chair: Gerald Pfister (Co-chair: Charlotte Petersen)

12:40 – 13:00
Invited Speaker Estefania Lozano Andres presenting "Exploring the Nanoscale: Using flow cytometry to study extracellular vesicles"

Session 4 - Small & Large in Flow Cytometry with Session Chair: Gerald Pfister (Co-chair: Charlotte Petersen)

13:00 – 13:20
Invited Speaker Michael Bonadonna presenting "Catch´em all! Flow Cytometry & Cell Sorting on the road"

Session 4 - Small & Large in Flow Cytometry with Session Chair: Gerald Pfister (Co-chair: Charlotte Petersen)

13:20 – 13:35
Final thoughts and wrap up

Final thoughts and wrap up

13:35 – 13:45
Poll questions

Poll questions

13:45 – 14:30
Open discussion

Outlook and open discussion