Annual Meeting

Annual Meeting NW Flow Cytometry Society
March 19th, 2025, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

*Registration is Closed*

We have reach capacity for in person attendance. We have opened a waitlist if spots open up. We will post a link to the waitlist group to attend the talks virtually the week before the event.

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Program

March 19th, 2025, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center

7:30a – 8:30a: Vendor setup Rm:B1-072/074/076  Poster setup D1-080

8:00a – 9:00a: Registration open Pelton Atrium

8:30a – 9:00a: Muffins and mingling – Vendors Open

9:00a – 10:45a: Morning Session Pelton Auditorium 

9:00 – 9:35 Andrew Konecny, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center “Frameworks for High-dimensional Panel Design: deep versus broad phenotyping, and the associate errors that limit panel size” 

9:35-10:10 Morten Ritso, University of British Columbia “Harnessing spectral cytometry to map cell population dynamics following muscle injury

10:10-10:45 Jonathan Fromm, MD, PhD, University of Washington “Flow cytometric cell sorting for molecular testing and FISH-a Case Based Approach“

10:45a – 11:00a: Break/Vendors

11:00a – 12:30p: Vendor sponsored lighting talks (15 minutes each)

  • Sony “Ensuring Reproducibility in Spectral Flow Cytometry: Standardization Across Platforms with ID7000 & FP7000”
  • BD Biosciences “BD FACSDiscover™ A8: A Dual Mode Imaging and High Speed Spectral Cell Analyzer – The Newest Member of the FACSDiscover Family”
  • Beckman Coulter “Advancing Flow Cytometry: An Overview of the Latest CytoFLEX nano and CytoFLEX Mosaic Innovations”
  • ThinkCyte “Morphology Matters: Going Beyond Markers with VisionSort™”
  • Standard Biotools “Single-Platform Solution for High-Throughput CyTOF and High-Plex Imaging”
  • Cytek Biosciences “Going Beyond Limits: Insights From Extracellular Vesicle (EV) Analysis UsingSpectral Flow Cytometry”

12:30p – 1:30p: Lunch Break vendors B1-072 and posters D1-080

1:30p – 3:00p: Post Lunch Session Pelton Auditorium 

1:30 – 2:15 David Ng, MD, University of Utah &  ARUP Laboratories “Spectral Flow Cytometry in the Clinical Flow Cytometry Laboratory“

2:15 – 2:35 Fabienne Lucas, University of Washington “Flow for the Future – Green Strategies for Flow Cytometry Laboratories”

2:35 – 2:55 Justine Calise, Benaroya Research Institute  “Data management best practices for the Cytek Aurora”

3:00p – 3:15p: Break 

3:15p – 5:00p: Afternoon Session Pelton Auditorium 

3:15 – 3:50 Kelly Lundsten – “Efforts towards standardization in a new spectral world”

3:50 – 4:25 Valerie Miller, SCYM, University of Washington “Trouble Shooting Principles” 

4:25 -5:00 Peter Morawski, PhD, Benaroya Research Institute “Infinity flow cytometry – Immune activation profiling of human disease”

5:00p – 7:00p: Happy Hour (appetizers and drinks) Sze Conference room

Speakers

Posters

Exhibitors

We are expanding the space for vendors by moving the poster session to a new location! We will have room for 16 vendors this year on a first-come, first-served basis.

Directions and Venue Information

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is located in the South Lake Union region of Downtown Seattle Washington. The meeting will be held in the Thomas and Weintraub Building. Visitors will need to check in at the front desk security.

Driving directions: 1100 Fairview Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109

I-5 North use Left lane to take exit 167 for Seattle Ctr toward Mercer St.

I-5 South use right lane to take exit 167 for Seattle Ctr toward Mercer St.

Turn right onto Fairview Ave N.

Turn right onto Ward St.

There is limited free visitor parking in the Ward St lot with additional paid street parking near by.

For shuttle information from the University of Washington, Benaroya and Harborview, click here.

Venue Map

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