30 September 2021
Online
2pm-5pm BST, 9am-12pm ET
A joint meeting of FlowcytometryUK and the RMS.
This is a follow up meeting to the Virtual FlowcytometryUK Facility Meeting to establish safe working practices in the COVID-19 era and the Virtual FlowcytometryUK Open Facilities Forums which took place in 2020. The meeting will provide a forum to discuss which changes Labs have initiated during the last year, which restrictions are still in place and how the Lab will look post-COVID. This will be an open forum where everyone will be able to contribute and all views are welcome.
The outline programme is:
14:00-14:10 Intro, housekeeping and introductions
14:10-14:40 Safety in the Cytometry Facility during and after Covid
14:40-14:55 Techno Bites: Thermo Fisher Scientific, STRATOCORE & Fluidigm UK Limited
14:55-15:25 Adapting training to online delivery
15:25-15:40 Break
15:40-16:10 Revenue streams with reduced workload
16:10-16:25 Techno Bites: Beckman Coulter United Kingdom Ltd, Miltenyi Biotec & Agendo Science
16:25-16:55 Other insights
16:55-17:00 Wrap up
Scientific Organisers
-
Mr Derek Davies
Flow Cytometry Section Vice Chair
The Francis Crick Institute
Derek is the National Science Technology Platform (STP) Training Lead at the Francis Crick Institute in London where his role is to develop Educational and Training courses to support Biomedical Research in the UK and beyond. He co-organises the section’s annual flow cytometry course at the University of York and is active in promotion of cytometry via focussed meetings and other courses. He is one of the principal organisers of the flowcytometryUK biennial meeting and also the Advances in Cytometry Meeting. Derek is particularly keen to promote cytometry education within the UK and beyond. -
Dr Peter O'Toole
RMS Vice President
University of York
Peter heads the Imaging and Cytometry Labs within the Technology Facility at the University of York which includes an array of confocal microscopes, flow cytometers and electron microscopes. Peter gained his PhD in the Cell Biophysics Laboratory at the University of Essex and has been involved in many aspects of fluorescence imaging. Research is currently focused on both technology and method development of novel probes and imaging modalities.Peter has ongoing collaborations with many leading microscopy and cytometry companies and his group also provides research support to many academics and commercial organisations. Peter is also heavily involved with teaching microscopy and flow cytometry which includes organising and teaching on both the RMS Light Microscopy Summer School and the RMS Practical Flow Cytometry courses.
-
Dr Rachael Walker
Babraham Institute
Rachael is the Head of Flow Cytometry Core Facility at Babraham Institute, Cambridge. The core provides a service to Babraham Institute and biotech companies that are housed on the Babraham Research Campus. She is also very involved with the flow cytometry community, on a local, national and International level. Rachael is one of the principle organisers of the flowcytometryUK biennial meeting and also the Advances in Cytometry meeting.
Rachael has been awarded an ‘Emerging Leader ‘ scholarship from the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry (ISAC). -
Dr Jessica Back
Wayne State University, USA
Jessica B. Back, Ph.D., SCYM(ASCP)CM is a Research Scientist and Deputy Director of the Microscopy, Imaging, and Cytometry Resources (MICR) Core at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University in Detroit, MI (https://micr.med.wayne.edu/).Dr. Back is an ISAC Councilor, a former ISAC SRL Emerging Leader (2015-2019), a member of the Great Lakes International Imaging and Cytometry Association (GLIIFCA) Board of Directors, and Chair of the ASCP Board of Certification Cytometry Examination Committee. As Deputy Director of an SRL much of her focus is on efficient and effective delivery of services to facility users. Her research interests focus on the tumor microenvironment, particularly on the role the immune system plays in cancer therapies and tumor regression.
Dr. Back received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Wayne State University in Detroit, MI and completed Post-Doctoral training in Tumor Immunology at the Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit, MI.