Please note the below programme is provisional and subject to change. 

Monday 8 January
10:00 – 11:00
Standardising your Technical Workplace - Ed Bowerman

Pre-meeting Session

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12:00 – 12:30
Badge collection and Registration

General

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12:30 – 13:10
Lunch

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13:10 – 13:15
Welcome from the Organisers

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13:15 – 13:30
TALENT Program and the Technicians Commitment - Kelly Vere

National Initiatives for Core Technical Staff

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13:30 – 13:45
Learning, Empowerment and Development Opportunities for Technicians - Ed Bowerman

National Initiatives for Core Technical Staff

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13:45 – 14:00
The University of Warwick Technical Specialists Promotional Pathway - Ian Hancox

National Initiatives for Core Technical Staff

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14:00 – 14:15
From Flow Core manger to deputy dean: How the Technician Commitment has helped career development - Andrew Filby

National Initiatives for Core Technical Staff

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14:15 – 14:30
Alternative Career Paths - Jennifer Hincks

National Initiatives for Core Technical Staff

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14:30 – 14:35
Leonor Heleno Wieglosz - Stratocore: Shaping the Future of Core Facility Management

Techno Bite Session 1

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14:35 – 14:40
Rob Durkin - Beckman Coulter Lifesciences : Flow Solutions for Extracellular Vesicle Research

Techno Bite Session 1

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14:40 – 14:45
Mebs Surve - Swift Analytical Ltd : Microfluidic Cell Sorting with the NanoCellect WOLF: Take the stress out of sorting and plating fragile samples

Techno Bite Session 1

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14:45 – 14:50
Armin Winands - Deepcell: The power of morphology - magnified by AI

Techno Bite Session 1

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14:50 – 14:58
Crib Talk - Luis Steven Servin Gonzalez - University of Warwick

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14:58 – 15:06
Crib Talk - Christopher Law - University of Liverpool

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15:06 – 15:30
Crib Talk Discussion Session

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15:30 – 16:00
Coffee Break

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16:00 – 17:00
Grant Writing and Discussion Panel

Session 2 Grant Writing

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17:00 – 17:05
Graeme Pollock - Miltenyi Biotec : Gentle Cell Sorting using the MACSQuant Tyto for Successful Downstream Genomic Analysis

Techno Bite session 2

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17:05 – 17:10
Roy Edward - BioStatus Limited : DRAQ dyes: cross-platform AND everything in-between

Techno Bite session 2

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17:10 – 17:15
Dawar Pasha - Standard BioTools: Fully automated high-dimensional flow cytometry with the CyTOF XT

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17:15 – 17:23
Crib Talk - David Ryan - Newcastle Advanced Therapies (NHS)

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17:23 – 17:31
Crib Talk - Cantug Bar - Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Institute, Flow Cytometry Core Facility

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17:31 – 17:39
Crib Talk - Vasiliki Tsioligka - The Don Mason Flow Cytometry Facility

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17:39 – 18:00
Crib Talk Discussion Session

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19:30 – 22:00
Dinner at MingMoon Restaurant

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Tuesday 9 January
08:45 – 09:15
Arrival and Refreshments

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09:15 – 09:30
RMS Update - Karen Hogg

State of the Nation

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09:30 – 09:45
CYTO 2024 Update - Rachael Walker

State of the Nation

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09:45 – 10:00
CTLS Update - Derek Davies

State of the Nation

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10:00 – 10:15
Hidden REF - Georgina Fletcher (Virtual Talk)

State of the Nation

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10:15 – 10:20
Christopher McRandle - Sony Europe BV : Sony Full Spectral Technology – Enabling New Frontiers

Techno Bite Session 3

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10:20 – 10:25
Katrina Kidd - Cytek Biosciences : Small Particle Detection Using Cytek’s Full Spectral and Imaging Flow Cytometry Solutions

Techno Bite Session 3

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10:25 – 10:30
Rob Tempest - NanoFCM : Combining flow cytometry & particle analysis to meet the challenges of the nano-scale

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10:30 – 10:38
Crib Talk - Shahram Golbabapour - University of Birmingham

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10:38 – 11:00
Crib Talk Discussion Session

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11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break

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11:30 – 11:35
Morgan Blaylock -BD Biosciences : BD FACSDiscover™ S8 Cell Sorter: See what you sort. Sort what you see

Techno Bite Session 4

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11:35 – 11:40
Gabriele Dammone - Agilent Technologies : A 30-color Immunophenotyping Panel Using The Agilent NovoCyte Penteon.

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11:40 – 11:45
Brian Sharland -Exprodo Software : Calpendo Enterprise

Techno Bite Session 4

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11:45 – 12:00
University of Cambridge - Implementing a BD Imaging Cell Sorter into their Core - Joana Cerveira

Embedding a New Technology into a Facility

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12:00 – 12:15
CRUK - Experiences Establishing an Imaging Mass Spectrometry Superhub - Richard Grenfell

Embedding a New Technology into a Facility

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12:15 – 12:30
Few Steps Towards Spectral Cytometry at the University of Birmingham Flow Cytometry Facility - Guillaume Desanti

Embedding a New Technology into a Facility

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12:30 – 12:45
Open Discussion

Embedding a New Technology into a Facility

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12:45 – 13:45
Lunch and Departure

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