BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:Fluidigm CyTOF Interest Group Meeting PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_369586_0 SUMMARY:Fluidigm CyTOF Interest Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:

Space is limited!  Click here to register for this event.

Join us and learn how your colleagues are using Fluidigm mass cytometry to study cellular heterogeneity with unprecedented data quality and reliability. Please register to attend inspirational scientific and product sessions describing recent results and best practices to make future and current users of CyTOF even more successful.

AGENDA:
8:30-9:00 am       Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00-9:15 am       Welcome Address & Opening Remarks Daniel Wall, PhD, Research Investigator III, Novartis
9:15-9:55 am       Considerations for Quantitative Measurements in Drug Development Chad Stevens, MS, Pfizer Worldwide Research and Development
9:55-10:35 am     Characterization of Functional Antiviral CD8 T-cell Immune Responses of HIV Elite Controllers by High Dimensional Phenotyping Using Mass Cytometry Katja Kleinsteuber, PhD, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
10:35-10:55 am   Break
10:55-:11:15 am  Process Development Applications of CyTOF Junxia Wang, PhD, Principal Scientist, Novartis
11:15-11:35 am   Deep Characterization of CD19 CART Cells Using CyTOF Peter Pierog, PhD, Senior Scientist, Novartis
11:35-11:45 am   Fluidigm Updates Michelle Poulin, PhD, Field Application Scientist, Fluidigm
11:45-11:55 am   Cytobank Updates Geoff Kraker, Applications Scientist, Cytobank
11:55-12:00 pm   NIBR Weekly Seminar Series: Introduction Daniel Wall, PhD, Research Investigator III, Novartis
12:00-1:00 pm   NIBR Weekly Seminar Series: High Dimensional Single Cell Cancer Biology Jonathan M. Irish, PhD, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
1:00-2:30 pm    Lunch in the Winter Garden
2:30- 3:10 pm   Considerations for Generating High Quality CyTOF Data Michelle Poulin, PhD, Field Application Scientist, Fluidigm
3:10- 3:50 pm   Cytobank: Going from Big Data to Big Findings Geoff Kraker, Applications Scientist, Cytobank
3:50-5:00 pm   Experimental Design, Sample Prep, & Data Analysis Expert Panel Discussion
5:00-7:00 pm   Reception with Greater Boston Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group Hosted by Novartis and Fluidigm in the cafeteria

Novartis and the Greater Boston Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group would like to invite all for speaker presentations and discussion from 7:00-9:00 pm following the reception.

Meet with the experts: 1-on-1 sessions with the experts held on Thursday, March 5th. Please indicate interest when registering.


LOCATION:Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Amenities Bulding Auditorium, 250 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20150304T133000Z DTEND:20150305T000000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR