The flowcytometryUK2025 meeting will take place at the University of Newcastle from 26th to the 28th March 2025.
This meeting will consist of themed plenary sessions with talks from invited speakers. There will also be parallel scientific workshops organised by members of the cytometry community and parallel commercial workshops. There will be a large exhibition and the opportunity to network with flow and image cytometrists from all over Europe and beyond. The meeting will highlight advances in flow and image instrumentation, high content screening, cancer and stem cell biology, applications of clinical cytometry and the development of novel probes and approaches in many areas of biomedical research.
Speakers
Jessica P. Houston
Dr. Jessica P. Houston is a Professor of Chemical & Materials Engineering at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in Las Cruces, NM. Her research includes flow cytometry instrument optimization, fluorescence dynamics, high-throughput systems, optofluidics, and fluorescence bioprobes. Dr. Houston has been at NMSU since 2009 where she first began her career in academia as an Assistant Professor. She came to NMSU after completing a 3-year Director’s Postdoctoral Fellowship within the Bioscience Division at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM (2006-2009). Dr. Houston provides service to a variety of scientific societies, boards, and advisory councils. She is President of ISAC (International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry, 2023-2026), Chair of ISAC Executive Committee, and serves on the council and as ex-officio of all 12 ISAC committees and numerous task forces and working groups.
Additionally, Dr. Houston is Chair of the Conference on Imaging, Manipulation, and Analysis of Cells and Tissues for the SPIE Photonics West Congress. Her scientific contributions have been presented in high impact papers, proceedings, and chapters, as well as numerous conference abstracts and invited international and national symposia. She holds a patent on lifetime measurements with cytometry and as a faculty member teaches fluid mechanics, biomedical engineering, process control, and dynamics. In 2024 Dr. Houston became a Faculty Fulbright Scholar in Brazil at the University of Sao Paulo.
Karen Hogg
Karen is currently a Senior Experimental Officer at the University of York, Bioscience Technology Facility. Karen underpins the scientific service within the Imaging and Cytometry Laboratory and takes a lead role in the research, operation and method development of cell sorting and analysis. As such, Karen’s expertise is utilized for a wide range of diverse applications both within and external to the Department of Biology. Karen is also a co-organizer and tutor on multiple flow cytometry courses throughout the UK. She got her BSc, Joint Honours in Biology and Biochemistry at Keele University, U.K. 1991-1995; then obtained her MSc in Applied Parasitology & Medical Entomology from the University of Liverpool, U.K. 1995-1996; then proceeded to obtain her Phd. from the School of Biology, University of Leeds, U.K. 1996-1999
Marta Paez-Ribes
Marta Paez-Ribes, PhD, studied biology in Barcelona, where she later obtained a PhD in biomedicine before moving to the University of Toronto as a postdoctoral fellow to investigate tumour angiogenesis. In 2015 she joined the University of Cambridge where she has been focused in unravelling the crosstalk between tumour cells and their microenvironment in the context of metastasis, with a special interest in spatial biology.
Scientific Organisers
Derek Davies
Derek is an independent Cytometry consultant offering education and training in all forms of cytometry. He was previously the National Science Technology Platform (STP) Training Lead at the Francis Crick Institute in London where his role was 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 annual meeting. Derek is particularly keen to promote cytometry education within the UK and beyond.
Rachael Walker
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).
RMS Organisers
Nick Cameron
nick@rms.org.uk
01865 254772
Contact Nick for exhibition and sponsorship event queries and RMS Corporate Membership.
